McLaren probe adds heat to Piastri as \u2018deflated\u2019 Aussie responds<\/a><\/p>\nOliver Bearman and Yuki Tsunoda disagreed over their near-crash in the US Grand Prix.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
Tsunoda has been under pressure since replacing Liam Lawson in the second Red Bull seat earlier in the season.<\/p>\n
Partnering Verstappen has been a revolving door, but Red Bull have bounced back from their woes in recent races.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old from Japan may have added a more ruthless edge in order to improve his results, but he insisted that he did not do anything wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I moved under braking. It\u2019s just a bit unfortunate how we ended up in that race like that, especially as we were having a good fight until then,\u201d Tsunoda said post-race.<\/p>\n
During his press conference, Tsunoda was also asked to address Bearman\u2019s criticism over his sprint race move, and again was dismissive of the claims.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s racing, right? I was fully in control, I didn\u2019t have any lockups, and I was literally side-by-side,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not his teammate, I\u2019m just fighting to be in the top 10 or more so yeah, I thought that was OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Bearman also said that he had not any problems with Tsunoda in the past, but said that was not the case for others in the field.<\/p>\n
He criticised Tsunoda for defending against Charles Leclerc, who finished on the podium, despite not jostling with the Ferrari for position.<\/p>\n
\u201cHave I had this issue? No, but I feel like he has this issue with other drivers,\u201d Bearman said. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was fighting against Charles [Leclerc], who is not even in the race with him. Like, why are you defending [against] him? It just seems silly what he\u2019s doing. It\u2019s just not thinking forward. Silly driving, in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bearman later said he will not discuss his objections with Tsunoda directly, saying \u201cI don\u2019t think he will change\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula One has a new driver\u2019s spat as Oliver Bearman teed off at Yuki Tsunoda after the pair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[2095,1724,64,63,4971,13275,9239,817,136993,136998,813,816,136995,941,10115,137000,825,136996,136997,2041,2067,16280,668,122761,136994,24579,85,22764,136999,3370,2614],"class_list":["post-226500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-america","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carlos-sainz","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-eastern-asia","tag-f1","tag-fiery-rant","tag-finish-place","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-furious-post-race","tag-japan","tag-kimi-antonelli","tag-max-closes","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mercedes-rookie","tag-morning-australian-time","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-pole-position","tag-press-conference","tag-race-report","tag-sainz-kimi","tag-sister-car","tag-sports","tag-sprint-race","tag-sprint-race-move","tag-texas","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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