Yuki Tsunoda reflects on tense return trip with AlphaTauri F1 team principal after collision with Gasly at British Grand Prix

Yuki Tsunoda has reflected on his tense return trip to Scuderia AlphaTauri F1 team principal Franz Tost after colliding with teammate Pierre Gasly at the 2022 British Grand Prix. AlphaTauri were running 7th and 8th, but Yuki Tsunoda lost the rear of his AT03 at Turn 3 and collided with teammate Gasly, forcing the two to perform a double pirouette on the run-off area. rice field.

Yuki Tsunoda was given a five-second time penalty for the accident, and Gasly was later forced to retire. To make matters worse, after the race Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was shown a loose part from his sister team’s car that had ripped into the floor of his RB18 and ruined the British Grand Prix. Yuki Tsunoda, who finished the race in 14th place on the AlphaTauri parts that were stuck in the floor of Max Verstappen, remembered he had to face team principal Franz Tost at the post-race debriefing session. He told the Beyond the Grid podcast that while he was disappointed, there was no conflict. “Of course I didn’t get hit, but my voice was definitely louder than usual!” Tsunoda recalled. “First of all, I was in the engineer’s room, and they said, ‘Yuki, come to the office. Why did you do such a stupid thing?'” Tsuyoshi admits that the awkwardness only got worse. “On the way back to Italy, we unfortunately sat next to each other in the car on the same flight.(On the way back) there was a lot of traffic, so it was a longer, longer trip from Silverstone than usual! Thanks to the team. I was still in the same car after causing all that bad stuff!” “It’s definitely something I’d like to forget, but something I have to remember for the future in order to improve myself.” Crack He was soon healed, and Yuki Tsunoda spent his third season at AlphaTauri. Tost and Tsunoda bonded over episodes such as Tost’s career in German Formula 3 and winning the 1983 Austrian Formula Ford Championship. Yuki Tsunoda, 22, said he would miss Franz Tost leaving F1, citing Tost has always been his strong supporter even in difficult circumstances. “I will miss Tost very much,” said Yuki Tsunoda. “We’ve shared a lot of time together. We’ve always been on the same page. He has leadership. I can’t, so if he’s gone, I might feel less comfortable or less excited in the team than usual.”