Yuki Tsunoda (23 years old) has completed his third F1 season. He finished 14th in the drivers’ standings, the same as in 2021, but Scuderia AlphaTauri’s Peter Beyer praised his performance.
Franz Tost, the long-time Toro Rosso and AlphaTauri team principal, always said, “It takes a driver three years in F1 to learn all the details of his technique.” Yuki Tsunoda has completed those three years.
Hiroki Tsunoda’s results over the past three years are 14th in the 2021 World Championship, his first year in F1 (points earned in 7 races, 4th place at the Abu Dhabi GP being the highlight, 32 points), and 17th in the 2022 World Championship. (top 10 in 4 races, 7th place at Imola GP, 12 points) and 14th place again in the 2023 World Championship (points in 6 races, 8th place at Texas and Abu Dhabi GPs, 17 points). .
Peter Beyer, who was newly appointed CEO of AlphaTauri this year, appeared as a guest on the live broadcast “Sport and Talk from Hangar-7”. Yuki Tsunoda was also scheduled to star in the film, but was unable to fly due to heavy fog over London. He was unable to arrive at Salzburg as planned.
Peter Beyer recognizes the obvious growth of Hiroki Tsunoda. “In mid-season F1 races, where thousands of seconds are at stake, if a driver loses his nerve, it’s a big problem.However, Tsunoda has grown a lot mentally. Race engineer Mattia Spini also said the same thing.” said Bayer.
In Abu Dhabi, Yuki Tsunoda took the lead for the first time in his F1 career, and his race strategy kept him on track for a very long time on his first set of tires. This is the first time a Japanese F1 driver has led the lap since Takuma Sato at the Nürburgring in 2004.
“This lead lap was an incredible moment for both the driver and the team. Emotions were high. In an exhausting year like 2023, it’s important to have moments like this,” Beyer said. .
It was the team’s first lead lap since Pierre Gasly’s sensational victory at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza 2020.
The long F1 year has left its mark on everyone involved. “It was very tiring, especially at the end of the year,” says Beyer, 52, from Vorarlberg.
“From Las Vegas to Abu Dhabi, the specialists had to deal with a 12-hour time difference and a 30-degree temperature change. It was tough.”
Category: F1 / Hiroki Tsunoda / Scuderia AlphaTauri
2023-12-13 09:50:00
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