F1 News: Delusional Tsunoda thinks he can beat Verstappen

Delusional Yuki Tsunoda believes that he will be able to ‘beat’ Max Verstappen when he gets up to speed with the Red Bull RB21 sled.

The 24-year-old believes that he can eventually beat teammate Verstappen. Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon and Sergio Perez all had the same delusion and all failed to pose a consistent threat to the four-time world champion, and their reputations suffered significant damage as a result.

“It’s my first time driving a completely different car – I only drove with VCARB for the last four years, so it’s the first time I drove a completely different team’s car,” Tsunoda said ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

“I’m trying to use that, and I know that if I unlock that area, I would be able to probably beat him [Verstappen]. I know myself that I can’t beat him straight away, so I’m just trying to build a good baseline and wait for the moment that I can be in the shape, yeah.”

“The thing is, he can feel more than myself in the car, like how the tire temp looks getting out of the garage.

“Qualifying’s a good example that [when] temps are going low, lower and lower throughout qualifying, he adjusted, Q1 to Q3 – when the temperature’s going lower, he adjusted himself in the warm-up, how he should warm up, how he should put pressure into the tires in each corner to increase the lap time or increase the pace of the outlap or whatever.

“Inside for me, I didn’t feel it that way. I wasn’t able to feel what I did in the VCARB. I wasn’t able to feel in this car yet, because probably just I’m not fully relaxing, driving this car. I’m just still rushing and not fully in control yet. I think those few details are really important with this current regulation, which is very sensitive on tires and even that one tenth, the few milliseconds in each corner, will make a lot of difference.”