Tsunoda brutally honest about Red Bull’s race problems

12:04, 04 Jul

Updated: 13:54, 04 Jul

bySavannah Lenz

Red Bull Racing has not had the best time this season. After an early replacement of Liam Lawson, Yuki Tsunoda has also not been able to make the RB21 work. However, after the Austrian Grand Prix, Tsunoda has someone other than Red Bull to blame.

After being knocked out in Q1, the Japanese driver started in P18, the lowest position among the Red Bull drivers, with Isack Hadjar, Max Verstappen, and Lawson all outqualifying him.

Tsunoda then spent the entire race battling it out in the backfield.

Tsunoda's struggles continue

When the Austrian Grand Prix done, Tsunoda said, “The issue in the race was me.”

“I tried to overtake in a way that probably I could just wait one more lap. It was a bit unnecessary to push flat out that much in that situation.”

He continued, “The racecraft wasn’t ideal for myself. The pace itself, yeah, to be honest, after that changed the front wing and everything and just, it’s not really probably the best reference I’ll get.”

Tusnoda admits that he is still struggling. “It’s still the mostly the session I’m working on really hard so far. Especially the long run is the stint or the session I’m normally struggling at.”

“We worked so hard last couple of days into here, what we can do better or not. And we're going to try a couple of stuff that I never thought about. I'm looking forward to it, feeling strong. In the short run it will just come hopefully soon in terms of the confidence level I want.”

As Arvid Lindblad will drive his car during FP1 of the British Grand Prix, Tsunoda will only have two practice sessions in the RB21 with its new updates.