Yuki Tsunoda cut a downbeat figure after ending the Austrian Grand Prix in 16th and last place, with the Red Bull driver admitting that he is finding it \u201creally, really hard\u201d to figure out the reason for his struggles in the RB21.<\/p>\n
Qualifying<\/a> had already proven tough for Tsunoda<\/a>, who exited in Q1 after only managing to secure P18 on the grid. From there he faced a tricky afternoon at the Red Bull Ring<\/a>, during which he received a 10-second time penalty \u2013 along with two penalty points \u2013 for causing a collision with Alpine\u2019s Franco Colapinto<\/a>.<\/p>\n While the Japanese driver avoided any further punishments when he was investigated for allegedly forcing Aston Martin\u2019s Lance Stroll<\/a> off the track in another battle, he was unable to make much progress through the field and crossed the line down in P16.<\/p>\n Reflecting on his race after jumping out of the car, Tsunoda \u2013 who has finished outside of the points for the last four Grands Prix \u2013 was left searching for answers over how he can improve.<\/p>\n \u201cTo be honest the move on Franco was a bit unnecessary,\u201d the 25-year-old said. \u201cI could probably wait one more lap, but that was a pretty bad move for myself.<\/p>\n \u201cOtherwise the pace itself was pretty poor as well \u2013 not sure what I\u2019m doing wrong, to be honest. I have to look through harder, but to be honest it\u2019s really, really hard to find the reason for what I\u2019m doing so wrong to drive this slow.\u201d<\/p>\n With the British Grand Prix<\/a> just a few days away as the second stop of a double header of races, Tsunoda was quizzed on whether he would use the limited time before that event to try to understand the car further, or if he would instead take more of a break following a tough weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cI will look through more,\u201d the Red Bull<\/a> driver explained. \u201cI just have to investigate more, and if I can do something different in driving style or if I can take something that Max [Verstappen]<\/a> is doing differently compared to myself, whatever it is, I\u2019ll try, from left to right, everything, and keep improving.\u201d<\/p>\n It was a difficult day all-round for the Milton Keynes-based outfit, with Verstappen out of the running on Lap 1<\/a> following a collision with Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli<\/a>, for which the Italian received a three-place grid penalty<\/a> for next weekend\u2019s race at Silverstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuki Tsunoda cut a downbeat figure after ending the Austrian Grand Prix in 16th and last place, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-226347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114771764464897707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}