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[WouterF1]

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We went above and beyond in our latest All-Access episode! From visiting Pierre Gasly at his Milan home, getting our sweat on in the gym,

pulling out some poses for the camera, and fitting some racing in at the Imola GP. All this and much more (plus topless Pierre, you're welcome) in the latest AlphaTauri All-Access!

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WouterF1, on 23 Apr 2021 - 13:37, said:

 

Great kitchen, loving the white marble, 10/10 for the SMEG toaster, and bravo on having his Moet in view. I'm guessing that bottle is from Brazil 2019, given that Italy 2020 must be on the living room mantlepiece. 

[ARTGP]

Tsunoda claims that he and Pierre give "opposite feedback" on the car:

 

https://www.racefans...und-up-06-05-4/

Edited by ARTGP, 06 May 2021 - 14:42.

[KWSN - DSM]

ARTGP, on 06 May 2021 - 14:42, said:

Tsunoda claims that he and Pierre give "opposite feedback" on the car:

 

https://www.racefans...und-up-06-05-4/

 

Ominous considering Tsunoda arguably have underperformed so far.

[paipa]

ARTGP, on 06 May 2021 - 14:42, said:

Tsunoda claims that he and Pierre give "opposite feedback" on the car:

https://www.racefans...und-up-06-05-4/

This kid has been in F1 for 4 races and he has been bi***ing and moaning more than most do in a season. I think he should consider shutting up for a few weeks, calm down and figure out the basics first. I get that he's an unconventional personality but this is no way to work in F1.

[goldenboy]

Has he been getting tips from Scott Speed or something.

Yuki crackin heads back at the factory lol.

Things will go badly for him with Red Bull if he continues with this attitude.

[Viryfan]

goldenboy, on 08 May 2021 - 15:21, said:

Has he been getting tips from Scott Speed or something.

Yuki crackin heads back at the factory lol.

Things will go badly for him with Red Bull if he continues with this attitude.

Gasly got onto his head in four race week-ends.

[KWSN - DSM]

paipa, on 08 May 2021 - 15:10, said:

This kid has been in F1 for 4 races and he has been bi***ing and moaning more than most do in a season. I think he should consider shutting up for a few weeks, calm down and figure out the basics first. I get that he's an unconventional personality but this is no way to work in F1.

 

Marko may have a talk with him soon.

[Paco]

Tsunoda is coming as immature and not ready for F1 and the shot Honda gave him..   He seems to have bought into his own hype and now realizing F1 is about tiny margins and getting all together...   

[Red5ive]

Not sure why Sky are fawning over the little japanese guy - seems just another entitled Fi brat who isnt living up to his promise.

 

Slightly unhinged to be effing and jeffing over the slightest issue and as to suggesting his teammate has a better car..........

[Rodaknee]

Red5ive, on 08 May 2021 - 15:42, said:

Not sure why Sky are fawning over the little japanese guy - seems just another entitled Fi brat who isnt living up to his promise.

 

Slightly unhinged to be effing and jeffing over the slightest issue and as to suggesting his teammate has a better car..........

Does he know Robert Kubica?  That was his claim when he messed up at Williams.

[FirstnameLastname]

Looked promising at the start of the year, but Tsunoda is getting more and more petulant and whiney. Redbull should Chuck him and bring back the torpedo again.

Tsunowhere

[ConsiderAndGo]

So... Tsunoda.... looks like a bit of a b***end.

[Dolph]

Woahh... Tsunoda needs a course on emotional maturity and media relations.

[Nobody]

KWSN - DSM, on 08 May 2021 - 15:24, said:

Marko may have a talk with him soon.

 

I'd say he is made from the same mould as Marko, albeit a 1:2 scale

[goldenboy]

Well, he has apologised.

I wonder if the damage has been done in regards to team atmosphere though.

Edited by goldenboy, 09 May 2021 - 01:37.

[beachdrifter]

Tsunoda adds some entertainment. I like it!

[ARTGP]

I just looked and Yuki is 20 years old. It kind of explains everything.....The tantrums and what not  . He's not exactly had much time in this world.

Edited by ARTGP, 09 May 2021 - 04:05.

[FirstnameLastname]

Napoleon Complex

[FirstnameLastname]

That’s two apologies so far from him;

1 for shouting his gob off on the radio about drivers
1 for shouting his gob off to the media about his team

And only 4 races in

[MichaelPM]

Seems inline with RedBull's culture, management will struggle to punish what they actively encourage and do themselves.

[TomNokoe]

I have to come out in defence of Tsunoda, in what I can only call vitriol in response to some pretty tame radio messages and an even tamer couple of post-quali interviews.

To see words like "brat", "petulant", "entitled", "b***end" thrown around completely belie what I am seeing and hearing. I think it is a gross exaggeration and overall a complete misrepresentation.

 

All I see is a young rookie driver frustrated at his results and struggling to understand how to extract everything from the car. Perfectly normal F1 driver behaviour that doesn't escape even the very best from time to time.

 

Tsunoda even said ahead of the weekend that the feedback he gives is totally different to Gasly, which is making it very hard to diagnose his issues.

 

FP3 Team Radio - why his engineer tells him to "calm down" I have no idea, he sounds very calm. FOM played this out on the world feed.

Q1 Team Radio - totally natural reaction, normal F1 driver stuff. Again broadcast on the world feed.

Interview with Sky

Interview with F1.com

 

I don't hear an angry driver, I hear an upset driver who is struggling to come to terms with his results.

 

This sudden "Tsunoda said he has a different car" narrative is pure fiction. His words are being picked apart without trying to understand the meaning behind them. Tsunoda has, by far, the worst command of English of any driver on the grid, which is contributing to these tetchy interviews and flashy headlines, and yet none of the professional media seems to be taking this into account.

 

I hate to say it but I can't help but feel there's some really strange stereotyping going on with the "little Japanese guy" (to quote Red5ive from a few posts earlier) and I don't like it at all.

 

In my eyes, he did absolutely nothing wrong yesterday (other than fail to make Q2) but a story has been made out of thin air for clicks and drama, forcing him to release a public apology which only vindicates those who were erroneously criticising him.

Edited by TomNokoe, 10 May 2021 - 11:22.

[BRG]

The Ch4 interview with him was fine.  He was humble and engaging.

 

Yuki was had a difficult start, some of it his own fault.  But he is learning al the time.  That is why it is called a rookie season.  I expect him to settle down and start to show the pace he had in the junior formulas.

[Alfisti]

All these pearl clutchers jesus, its just a bit of swearing. Everyone is so sensitive these days.

[KWSN - DSM]

Shine massively of Tsunoda, I had expected a lot better - not too close to Gasly, but not advancing from Q1 in the car which qualify P6 is just not good enough, season long enough already to see a pattern, Tsunoda will not take over from Perez 2022.

Edited by KWSN - DSM, 22 May 2021 - 20:16.

[absinthedude]

I was impressed wit Tsunoda in testing and at the Bahrain GP....but since then he's really looked like he's struggling...and his attitude sucks. I don't much care that he swears, it's that he seems to blame everyone else for his problems and throw his toys out of the pram....which aren't generally good qualities for a racing driver....

[TheAviator]

Yuki is over his head a bit me thinks.

[Cyanide]

Hardly the superstar Red Bull thought/hyped up to be.

Which is problematic for Red Bull, because Perez isn't performing well enough either at the moment.

[Laster]

Think that first Bahrain weekend got people expecting too much of him early on. Once we get to France there’s a run of tracks he knows well and aren’t really odd in anyway.

Bahrain he knew well had plenty of test time and looked quick all weekend, until they stuck him on a set of mediums for his first ever qualifying session having never done any qualifying runs on mediums before, unsurprisingly he couldn’t get them working.

Imola silly mistake in qualifying, has to own that, but the race was wet so spinning on a damp track with slick tyres in your second grand prix, bit more forgiveable.

Portimao that track was slippery all weekend and one he couldn’t get the tyres working.

Spain was a poor qualifying from him he has to own that.

As for Monaco it’s his first time at the street circuit, and he was closer to his teammate than for example Ricciardo was to Norris.

It’s his fifth race, people need to calm down, shut up and leave him to it for a while. No hype, no bashing.

[TomNokoe]

Majorly impressed with Gasly. He's quicker over one lap than he's ever been.

[KWSN - DSM]

TomNokoe, on 22 May 2021 - 19:08, said:

Majorly impressed with Gasly. He's quicker over one lap than he's ever been.

 

My bandwagon holds Schumacher and Gasly.

[Scaboo22]

Another solid performance by Pierre, another weekend to forget for Tsunoda. I was quite shocked at how hyped some of the pundits were after the first race of the season (he still got outqualified by Gasly) where he did have a decent race, but I didn't expect him to perform this poorly after. Still early days, there is time for him to improve, although I reckon he has until the end of the season at best. Patience is not what Helmut Marko is known for. 

[Jerem]

The car seems to be very good around Baku. Fantastic qualifying for Gasly, good effort by Tsunoda getting into Q3 but obviously the crash doesn't help.

[KWSN - DSM]

Gasly continue to show what we saw at Red Bull is not who he is as a driver.

[absinthedude]

A better weekend so far for Tsunoda. He gives the impression of someone who had a great first race and felt he had F1 sussed.....then found he still has a lot to learn. Hopefully he's learning. 

[MinardiSpeed]

Any reason why AT only came out late in the session for only 1 run of Yuki giving Pierre a toll?

 

Was hoping they came out early and alternate the toll-ing between drivers.

[KWSN - DSM]

MinardiSpeed, on 05 Jun 2021 - 21:15, said:

Any reason why AT only came out late in the session for only 1 run of Yuki giving Pierre a toll?

 

Was hoping they came out early and alternate the toll-ing between drivers.

 

They timed their run when the other teams were done with their first, and had not started their second no?

[Laster]

They only had the one set of fresh tyres, and they were always going faster on their second runs. So I guess they decided to do the first run when the track was clear with Yuki giving the tow, then when everyone else came out Yuki could just pick up the tow from whoever was in front of him like normal. - He was improving through all the mini sectors in that first sector until he crashed.

[Viryfan]

Laster, on 05 Jun 2021 - 21:21, said:

They only had the one set of fresh tyres, and they were always going faster on their second runs. So I guess they decided to do the first run when the track was clear with Yuki giving the tow, then when everyone else came out Yuki could just pick up the tow from whoever was in front of him like normal. - He was improving through all the mini sectors in that first sector until he crashed.

 

Gasly was also improving too.

[dierome87]

Tsunoda seems to have some serious speed. He just needs to iron out his mistakes.

[Laster]

Viryfan, on 05 Jun 2021 - 21:32, said:

Gasly was also improving too.

Yeah like I said the Alpha Tauris were always going faster on their second run. Gasly had picked up the tow of Norris for his second run through that first sector, while Tsunoda had picked up Bottas tow.

[Laster]

Good day for Alpha Tauri and both drivers, double points finish, most from the midfield, Gasly on the podium and Tsunoda comfortably in the points all race.

I do think they need to help Tsunoda work on his starts now. Every race he has lost positions from the grid, with the exception of Imola, where he started last. He seems a bit cautious in his car positioning through the opening lap. That said, he was comfortably matching Gasly’s pace through the race, once he starts hooking up a complete weekend I reckon he’ll come good, and we are now heading to tracks he knows and ones which are more normal than the likes of Baku, Monaco, Portimao.

[Viryfan]

Laster, on 06 Jun 2021 - 14:45, said:

Good day for Alpha Tauri and both drivers, double points finish, most from the midfield, Gasly on the podium and Tsunoda comfortably in the points all race.

I do think they need to help Tsunoda work on his starts now. Every race he has lost positions from the grid, with the exception of Imola, where he started last. He seems a bit cautious in his car positioning through the opening lap. That said, he was comfortably matching Gasly’s pace through the race, once he starts hooking up a complete weekend I reckon he’ll come good, and we are now heading to tracks he knows and ones which are more normal than the likes of Baku, Monaco, Portimao.

Gasly was having power unit issues during the race.

Fortunate to finish.

[MinardiSpeed]

Great to see the results for Pierre and a quiet points finish from Yuki today.

 

Was hoping Yuki starts improves but he's probably at the mindset to keep out of trouble and bring it home to gain the needed rookie confidence.

[KWSN - DSM]

Great result for Alpha Tauri today, Gasly being there or thereabouts all race, with the misfortunes of others captured a great podium, good on Tsunoda finally having a race where he could show himself.

[Laster]

Viryfan, on 06 Jun 2021 - 15:14, said:

Gasly was having power unit issues during the race.

Fortunate to finish.

Then he did well to keep the car on pace with those around him.

[Gambelli]

One of my favourite things from the race....

 

Pre race weekend:

 

Yuki "I need to work on my temper and how I communicate with the team"

 

Race weekend:

 

Engineer "Okay Yuki, tyres are looking good, you can push now, give it everything"

 

Yuki "SHUTUP!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

lol

 

Well done Gasly btw... though we say that a lot these days..... hope he can find a team to grow with outside of the Red Bull family, I just think that would be better for him.

[Laster]

Honestly I don’t know why people made a deal out of that radio message. I’ve heard every driver on this grid react similarly when the engineer is being distracting repeating the same thing over and over. I know that would irritate me if someone said it a half dozen times when I was already giving it everything. There are times when drivers can quite legitmately tell their engineer to shut up.

[KWSN - DSM]

Laster, on 06 Jun 2021 - 22:49, said:

Honestly I don’t know why people made a deal out of that radio message. I’ve heard every driver on this grid react similarly when the engineer is being distracting repeating the same thing over and over. I know that would irritate me if someone said it a half dozen times when I was already giving it everything. There are times when drivers can quite legitmately tell their engineer to shut up.

 

I suggest "Don't talk I am doing my best" or something like that would be better, mostly that is what we hear from the drivers.

[TomNokoe]

KWSN - DSM, on 06 Jun 2021 - 23:06, said:

I suggest "Don't talk I am doing my best" or something like that would be better, mostly that is what we hear from the drivers.

His English isn't very good. I think this is what causes his abrasiveness. He just goes for the sharpest snappiest phrase that comes to mind because he's racing at 200mph and simply doesn't have the strongest command of the language yet to be composed in his speech.