Tsunoda says experience the only thing holding him back from beating Verstappen

Yuki Tsunoda is on a mission to shut the Formulation 1 expertise hole between himself and team-mate Max Verstappen.

The recently-promoted Pink Bull driver stated the RB21 is especially difficult to drive with out prior expertise, which supplies Verstappen a serious benefit. 

“I’m fairly proud of my confidence degree contemplating we’re solely two races in, however I am making an attempt to know how this automobile operates … [because] I am not absolutely understanding even half of it but,” Tsunoda advised reporters in Jeddah on Thursday. 

The Japanese driver has set real looking short-term objectives for himself, however is assured he may problem the four-time world champion if he had the identical degree of confidence behind the wheel. 

“I do know that I can not beat him right away, so I am simply making an attempt to construct a superb baseline and watch for the moments that I may be in [good] form,” Tsunoda stated.

“It comes right down to the expertise actually, this automobile behaves fairly in a different way at every observe so it’s onerous to foretell.

Yuki Tsunoda, Pink Bull Racing

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“Max understands it fairly properly and the engineers perceive it from their expertise at earlier grands prix. So, they’ll clarify it to me in phrases, however I do not perceive precisely what that looks like within the automobile.

“I simply must take time and construct it up. After I unlock that space, I’d most likely have the ability to beat him.”

Within the meantime, Tsunoda admitted he nonetheless has lots to study after spending 4 years at Pink Bull’s junior crew.

“I’m not absolutely stress-free driving this automobile – I’m nonetheless dashing and never absolutely in management but,” he stated.

“I understand how Max builds his confidence all through the week in comparison with how I construct confidence and it is utterly completely different. He can really feel greater than I can within the automobile and he has a lot confidence in it.”

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