Tsunoda feels "support" from Horner and Marko

On the back of a series of disappointing races, Red Bull driver Yuki Tsunoda finds himself under massive pressure, but he clamed that he feels support from team boss Christian Horner and motorsport advisor Dr Helmut Marko.

Although Max Verstappen wasn’t quite able to take the top spot across practice, he looked fairly competitive in the third and final practice on Saturday.

However, the Dutchman was unable to challenge for top places in qualifying, complaining about the overall balance of his RB21. In Q3, the reigning champion appeared to be in contention for P5 on the grid, but he was forced to abort his final flying lap due to yellow flags brought out for a spin by Pierre Gasly.

Although Verstappen had been expected to bounce back from his disappointing result in qualifying, the Dutchman's race ended after just three corners. The reigning champion's Red Bull was tagged by the Mercedes of Andrea Kimi Antonelli at Turn 3, with the incident forcing Verstappen to retire from the action.

The incident left Yuki Tsunoda as the only Red Bull driver out there. The Japanese driver started from P18 after a disappointing qualifying session on Saturday.

Tsunoda collided with Stroll early on as he tried to barge past the Canadian, which the stewards decided was a racing incident. However, the Red Bull driver had another collision with Alpine's Franco Colapinto for which he received a 10-second time penalty.

Asked whether he feels any support from Red Bull's management, Tsunoda said ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix that team boss Christian Horner and motorsport advisor Dr Helmut Marko are supporting him in this tough period of time.

"Definitely, yeah. I mean, I feel definitely the support, especially these days and more than ever, from Christian, Helmut. I went to the south of UK with a physio Red Bull Racing to kind of reset myself, and that was coming from them.

"They just wanted to have fresh air and everything. So that helps a lot to me to build up my rhythm. Also, we're going to try a couple of things that I never tried, and they allow me to do quite a lot of things that probably they wouldn’t do in a normal case. So, yeah, definitely," concluded Tsunoda.