AlphaTauri newcomer Yuki Tsunoda was very quick during the winter test in Bahrain, but afterwards it turned out he had already activated his DRS before the detection point. A clever trick, but he won't be able to use it during a race weekend.
The Japanese driver finished second, behind Max Verstappen. The Drag Reduction System can only be used after the white line, but Tsunoda did it before that point, which saved him time.
Action of Tsunoda was a rookie mistake
Team boss Franz Tost dismissed it as a rookie mistake. "That wasn't really the intention," Tost says at SkyDeutschland about Tsunoda's action. "But he is only a beginner. Usually the system is activated automatically."
At least it was creative from the AlphaTauri driver, but race weekends he won't get away with it. "In the future he will not do this again," Tost concluded.
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