AlphaTauri F1’s Pierre Guthrie believes that F1’s midfield driver’s ability has contributed to the struggle of his teammate Yuki Tsunoda’s rookie year, and Kakuda has to deal with them. It wasn’t easy, “he said.
Pierre Guthrie, one of the outstanding drivers of 2021, completely surpassed Yuki Tsunoda throughout the 2021 season and scored more than three times as many points as his teammates in the AlphaTauri Honda F1.
Yuki Tsunoda was the only one to surpass Pierre Guthrie in the qualifying for the final round of the F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and achieved his personal best 4th place finish, but he often lags behind Guthrie in the final.
In the middle of the season, Alex Albon, F1 driver of Red Bull in 2020, was assigned the role of Yuki Tsunoda’s unofficial mentor, but Pierre Guthrie became a teammate when he got his job done. I admit that it is difficult to help.
“It’s difficult to focus on yourself because it takes so much energy,” Pierre Guthrie told reporters.
“When I hear Yuuki say, I think he learned quite a lot just by looking at the data, how he worked with the team, and my approach.”
However, Pierre Guthrie believes that the high quality of the midfield drivers also contributed to Yuki Tsunoda’s struggle to adapt to F1 following a good result in F2.
In the midfield, there are former F1 World Champions Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), Fernando Alonso (Alpine) and Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), and even they have finished most of the season out of points.
Yuki Tsunoda admitted that the early part of the season was a “lazy bastard” and said he needed to improve his physical side for the new season.
“I don’t think he expected it to be that hard,” Pierre Guthrie added.
“At the moment the midfield level in F1 is really tough. Aston Martin has four world champions (Vettel) and Alpine has two world champions (Alonso), Ferrari has a very strong lineup and McLaren. Is also a very strong lineup. Even Alpine had a champion Kimi. “
“The level is really high, maybe higher than in the last few years. Certainly it wasn’t easy for the rookie to come in.”
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