F1 | AlphaTauri, Yuki Tsunoda: “It was the most difficult weekend of the year”

Weekend to forget for Yuki Tsunoda and AlphaTauri. The Japanese started and finished the race in sixteenth position, also helped by the retirements of Sainz, Latifi and Perez. The pace of his AT03 is almost disastrous, and as much as the wall tries to help him with strategy, Yuki can't do anything to change his position on the track. He too becomes the protagonist of some fights, first with Ocon, then with Fernando Alonso: the Japanese closes the path to the Spaniard, who grazes the grass and in the middle of the action warns his opponent with a "no" of the hand. Therefore, apart from providing a moment of high Alone tension, Tsunoda cannot do more.

"It was a really hard and long race. I didn't have any pace this weekend and I was really struggling already after FP2 with the car sliding everywhere – Yuki explained – we need to understand what the problem is, because we haven't found anything in the data that can explain why this weekend was so tough. Today I did my best and I don't think I could have done much more in this situation. So far, this has been the hardest weekend we've had this year".