{"id":129222,"date":"2025-05-24T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129222\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:31:09","slug":"tsunoda-unhappy-after-order-to-let-verstappen-past-in-qualifying-%c2%b7-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129222\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunoda unhappy after order to let Verstappen past in qualifying \u00b7 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yuki Tsunoda<\/a> was tight-lipped over why he complained to Red Bull on his radio after qualifying.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so unfair, honestly,\u201d said Tsunoda on his radio after dropping out in Q2. \u201cI knew that was going to happen like this. I knew it, but\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

After reaching Q2, Tsunoda briefly looked like he was going to accompany his team mate Max Verstappen<\/a> into Q3. Although he was unable to set a lap time before the session was red-flagged, once it restarted Tsunoda produced a time good enough for 10th.<\/p>\n

Tsunoda still had time for one more lap, but his final effort was over half a second slower. Isack Hadjar<\/a> and Esteban Ocon beat his best time and Tsunoda was eliminated in 12th.<\/p>\n

But when Tsunoda was asked after qualifying what went wrong, he indicated he was at least as unhappy about the beginning of his session as he was the end of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just the last push, it\u2019s just [the] start of Q2,\u201d Tsunoda told the official F1 channel. \u201cBut it\u2019s okay. I know what\u2019s happened and I don\u2019t have to talk here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether he would discuss the matter further with the team, Tsunoda replied: \u201cLet\u2019s see.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tsunoda appears to have been unhappy about Red Bull\u2019s instruction for him to let Verstappen by at the beginning of Q2. The call came while they were queued in the pit lane with Tsunoda ahead of his team mate.<\/p>\n

\u201cYuki, it\u2019s a request, can you please let Max past up the hill, let Max past up the hill, he\u2019s directly behind you,\u201d said his race engineer Richard Wood. \u201cHe\u2019s on a different run plan to us.\u201d After they swapped places Wood told Tsunoda: \u201cThanks very much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their run plans differed in that Verstappen set a flying lap immediately after leaving the pits, unlike Tsunoda, who did a slow \u2018build\u2019 lap before making his first attempt at a lap time. This meant the red flag triggered by George Russell\u2019s<\/a> stoppage affected the two drivers differently: Verstappen had already set his first time when it came out, while Tsunoda had not.<\/p>\n

What was Red Bull\u2019s reason for swapping the positions of their two cars? It appears they did not join the fast lane of the pits in the intended order.<\/p>\n

Both cars were lowered from their jacks at the same time as Q2 began, but Verstappen\u2019s was raised again, apparently due to some sort of problem. That meant Tsunoda joined the fast lane of the pits before his team mate.<\/p>\n

Both drivers had done \u2018build laps\u2019 before their first flying runs in Q1, but only Tsunoda did in Q2. The difference in their strategies, the request to let Verstappen by and the unfortunate timing of the Q2 red flag clearly irked Tsunoda.<\/p>\n

As a result, Tsunoda recorded his third absence from Q3 since he joined Red Bull six rounds ago.<\/p>\n

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