"A lot of things are happening out of my control lately," claims Tsunoda
On the back of a tough weekend at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Red Bull driver Yuki Tsunoda reckoned that "a lot of things are happening out of my control lately."
Having secured second place on the grid, Max Verstappen picked off Norris into Turn 1 on the opening lap as the McLaren driver slightly outbraked himself.
Thereafter, the Dutchman managed the race superbly. He absorbed all the pressure Russell threw at him in the opening stages of the race, and managed to build up a bit of a margin from the chasing pack.
Although Red Bull left Verstappen out for longer than his rival during the first stint, the Dutchman had slightly fresher tyres for the second stint which allowed him to escape from the duo of Russell and Norris again.
While Verstappen cruised to his sixth Grand Prix win of the season at Las Vegas, his team-mate Yuki Tsunoda endured another tough race.
The Japanese driver opted to start from the pit lane after his difficult qualifying session. He pitted early to switch from the mediums to the hard tyre, but had to stop a second time and that dropped him back down the order.
Reflecting on his tough weekend at Las Vegas, the Japanese driver said: "Things didn’t go the way we would have liked today and I think I would have been in a lot higher a place without the tyre pressure issue we had in Qualifying.
"What happened in Qualifying was a mistake, it’s something that was out of my control but it is very frustrating because until then I was having a good weekend.
"I lost the opportunity to have a good race with something that is relatively easy to avoid but we will learn from it as a Team. If the timing of the VSC on lap two had worked out we could have employed a very successful strategy today, but in the end it was just unfortunate, because just before that I had pitted.
On the back of a tough weekend at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Tsunoda reckoned that "a lot of things are happening out of my control lately."
"Everything feels like it is going against me lately and weekends aren’t going as we planned. The changes we made to the car overnight didn’t impact the pace as much as we had wanted either.
"A lot of things are happening out of my control lately, but I can only control what I can control. The pace is getting there for me and I am feeling more comfortable and confident with the car. I will just keep doing what I am doing."
