Shortly after qualifying started on the Components 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, it was over for Yuki Tsunoda.
The Crimson Bull driver veered off the racing line and into the gravel on the precarious Villeneuve chicane, along with his RB21 flipping into the barrier earlier than coming to a relaxation right-side up. The crash introduced out the purple flag, resulting in an prolonged delay in Q1.
You may see Tsunoda’s large crash right here:
Tsunoda was in a position to exit the RB21 and stroll unassisted to the medical automobile, the place he was taken to the care heart for a precautionary analysis. The Crimson Bull driver was cleared and launched, permitting him to talk with the media after the session.
“I’m okay, fortunately,” Tsunoda reported to the official F1 channel after he was cleared by the care group. “However on the identical time, it’s very irritating how I ended up [eliminated] in such an early stage, particularly in a really pointless state of affairs.”
Crimson Bull’s latest driver conceded that his kind has been “up and down” from session to session.
“It’s form of up and down,” Tsunoda stated of his time at Crimson Bull. “Some classes I really feel okay, some classes out of the blue I’ve dropped loads.”
“FP3 was to be sincere a giant thriller, how I ended up,” continued Tsunoda. “Clearly, the lap, [I was not] in a position to put all of it collectively, however on the identical time it was fairly poor tempo. We don’t know precisely why.”
Tsunoda then pointed to a “silly mistake” that ended his day early.
“We made lots of modifications and it felt fairly good within the first flip, flip two, flip three, after which I crashed instantly after. So it’s only a disgrace, I really feel just like the automobile was fairly there and simply put myself into the wall with such a silly mistake.”
Tsunoda’s crash left him twentieth on the grid for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, however the important injury to the RB21 probably means a pit lane begin is in his future.
