Yuki Tsunoda believes the technical innovations the Visa RB team prepared for the Italian stage of the season proved to be completely ineffective – explaining the difficulties the Japanese racer encountered at Monza.
In qualifying, Yuki crashed out of contention in the very first session, showing the 16th result, and this did not improve his mood, but he was ultimately upset after retiring from the Grand Prix, which was preceded by a collision with Nico Hulkenberg.
“I started the weekend with high expectations for the new products, but it seems they didn’t work,” Tsunoda complained. “I hope the car doesn’t get worse.” We just didn’t have enough speed and whatever I did, the difficulties only got worse, I kept sliding around the track. In general, everything is bad, and it won’t be easy to win back.
When we studied the calculations made during the work on the simulator, it seemed that I had to add something, but in reality we were not even close and very far from the results we wanted to achieve.”
At the same time, Daniel Ricciardo’s car was in an earlier version, they did not install any new items on it, but the Australian showed the 12th fastest time in qualifying and, according to him, could have fought for points in the race if he had not been for the race penalties that left him in 13th place.
“The team wanted to check how effectively the new underbody would work, we went to gather the necessary information, but it is clear that in qualifying we literally had to fight with the car in one fast lap,” Tsunoda continued. “We hoped that the new underbody would provide some kind of advantage at least during the race in combination with other new products, which also had to be tested on the track and their behaviour had to be assessed.
In theory everything should have worked, but my feelings were radically different from those in the simulator. But at least we had the opportunity to compare the two versions of the pants.”
Apparently the team from Faenza prefers not to jump to conclusions and Daniel Ricciardo will have to evaluate the performance of the new products during the race weekend in Baku.
Source: F1 News
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