{"id":309664,"date":"2025-11-26T09:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309664\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:53:21","slug":"yuki-tsunoda-vows-he-was-faster-than-max-verstappen-multiple-times-at-f1-las-vegas-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309664\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuki Tsunoda vows he was faster than Max Verstappen ‘multiple times’ at F1 Las Vegas GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yuki Tsunoda<\/a> has declared the Las Vegas Grand Prix was among his best weekends with Red Bull in Formula 1<\/a>, despite his point-less run extending to three races.<\/p>\n

Starting from the pit lane having been eliminated in Q1 due to incorrect tyre pressure, Tsunoda was classified in 12th once the two McLaren drivers were excluded.<\/p>\n

Despite missing out on the points places once again, Tsunoda remained adamant that the result didn\u2019t reflect the pace he possessed at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tsunoda highlighted how the early Virtual Safety Car had a lasting impact on his race, leading him to rue that luck has not been on his side since his Red Bull move.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [Virtual] Safety Car [was called] right after I pitted. So that\u2019s not ideal at all, and that\u2019s it really,\u201d Tsunoda told media including Motorsport Week<\/p>\n

\u201cI stayed in the dirty air afterwards because people came into the pits. It feels like everything is so far going against me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RedRed Bull acknowledged that it cost Yuki Tsunoda in Las Vegas<\/p>\n

Tsunoda insists Las Vegas result masked improved pace<\/p>\n

Tsunoda believes the end result concealed the improvement he made over the weekend, citing that he was on team-mate Max Verstappen\u2019s pace through practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cMultiple times \u2013 FP1, FP2, FP3 \u2013 in multiple laps, I was ahead of Max in performance runs,\u201d he divulged.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think [that\u2019s] something that I didn\u2019t have and we didn\u2019t see probably for a long time.\u201d <\/p>\n

However, Tsunoda has recognised that Verstappen, who kept his title dream alive with a victory, tends to go into another gear when the competitive action begins.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously one of his strengths is he\u2019ll bring the car on his level, to another level in qualifying, which is his strength,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut also, I had confidence as well into qualifying [that] I can perform better than the other race weekends, and these things happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the pace I\u2019ve shown until qualifying was good and qualifying was just completely not in my control and a lost opportunity. It\u2019s tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least the pace itself, I guess, is going the right direction but it\u2019s frustrating that I know I couldn\u2019t really show it in the result.\u201d<\/p>\n

Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies acknowledged the team cost Tsunoda, with an aggressive strategy not enough to undo the damage that was done in qualifying.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, with Yuki we lost the points yesterday. We know that,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd hence we tried to take a bit more risk and to be different compared to the field. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that otherwise we would just be stuck in traffic. So we tried to pit him very early to give him some free air.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE \u2013 Red Bull apologises to Yuki Tsunoda for\u00a0\u2018big mistake\u2019 that culminated in Las Vegas Q1 exit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuki Tsunoda has declared the Las Vegas Grand Prix was among his best weekends with Red Bull in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,817,175773,806,805,803,804,15196,85,5077],"class_list":{"0":"post-309664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-lasvegasgp","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-redbull","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-yuki-tsunoda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309664","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=309664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}