This is why Verstappen finished behind Tsunoda in difficult FP2

Friday at the Hungaroring was a day Max Verstappen would rather forget. He managed ninth fastest in the opening practice but dropped to 14th in the second session.

Meanwhile, Tsunoda took a different path — starting FP1 in 17th but improving to ninth in FP2, finishing ahead of Verstappen. That’s not something you see very often.

Former Formula 1 engineer Buscombe explained the reason for Tsunoda's advantage over Verstappen in FP2 after the session: "Understeer," she said in the F1TV broadcast.

Though understeer was not the only issue for Verstappen this Friday, according to the former engineer: ''It almost looked like it was kind of like understeer on entry and then even like maybe oversteer mid-corner.''

She therefore concluded: ''It doesn't look particularly fun car to drive.''

Buscombe expects Verstappen and Tsunoda to go in different directions with car setup on Saturday: ''One thing I would say is that he might be trying something a bit more extreme in terms of settings than Yuki.''

According to the Brit, Verstappen is someone who likes to take risks: ''He also likes to kind of, lick the stamp and send it to actually try to find the limits of the performance, whereas Yuki might be taking a slightly different approach.''

Nevertheless, we should not draw too many conclusions based on this one good qualifying from Tsunoda: ''I wouldn't necessarily read into it but obviously, he wasn't particularly happy, did look like he threw in the towel at one point".