Yuki Tsunoda is “doing a really good job” but must keep his emotions in check after a series of reprimands and penalties - says AlphaTauri F1 boss Franz Tost ⬇️
Tsunoda became the first F1 driver to pick up a grid penalty for accruing five reprimands in a single season whenIt resulted in a 10-place grid drop for Monza, where Tsunoda was hit with a further three-place penalty for ignoring yellow flags during practice on Friday.
“His performance is increasing - look to the qualifying in Zandvoort, look to FP1 in Monza. In the car, he is doing a really good job,” said Tost. “I understand that it's difficult in qualifying, maybe sometimes in the race, but in a free practice session, you in any way have to accept yellow flags and have to react in the correct way, which means you have to slow down.”Three of Tsunoda’s five reprimands came for incidents during free practice sessions, when he held up Charles Leclerc in Bahrain, Sebastian Vettel in Australia and Kevin Magnussen in Monaco.
Tsunoda has failed to score any points since the Spanish Grand Prix in mid-May, but was unfortunate to miss out on the top 10 at Zandvoort, where he reached Q3 and was in contention for points before a differential issue forced him to retire.