System One rookie Yuki Tsunoda questioned whether or not AlphaTauri is giving him the identical automotive as teammate Pierre Gasly after a irritating qualifying session for the Spanish Grand Prix.

Tsunoda was broadcast cursing on his automotive radio after being eradicated from the opening phase of qualifying, saying “I can’t imagine this automotive”. He’ll begin Sunday’s race from sixteenth.

Against this his teammate, Italian Grand Prix winner Pierre Gasly, made it via to the second qualifying session and can line up twelfth.

When requested what he thought was going fallacious, Tsunoda stated: “I do not know. It is at all times totally different suggestions in comparison with my teammate.

“Even each time it is reverse, so I’ve slightly little bit of a query mark if it is the identical automotive. In fact it is the identical automotive, however the character of the automotive is simply too totally different. Perhaps in fact it is simply the driving model, however I do not know what’s occurred and why I am struggling this a lot.”

Tsunoda’s confusion centered across the out-lap from the pits again to the start of his timed lap. The best way a driver manages his out-lap is essential to getting the tyres as much as the mandatory temperature required to maximise a qualifying lap.

Tsunoda felt he did every part he wanted to execute the lap he wanted, so he was confused why his automotive was missing the tempo to make Q2.

“I wasn’t pushing too arduous on the outlap, [I was] identical to do regular.

“The tyre temperature is kind of spot on earlier than the lap. I believe the crew, we arrange, we arrange the tyre, however I do not know. It isn’t the place I need to struggle.

“The efficiency on this automotive, it is simple to go to Q2. I actually struggled to even go to Q2.”

Tsunoda got here into his first System One season with important hype round his aggressive racing model and success in junior classes. He impressed in his debut, the Bahrain Grand Prix, however has struggled within the two races since.