30 minutes before the start of the race, during his warm-up lap, Yuki Tsunoda complained over the radio of an engine issue. A few seconds later, the Japanese driver was forced to stop on the track before his engineer told him, “It’s the end, Yuki. You can pull over, thank you.”<\/p>\n
This concludes a catastrophic weekend in terms of reliability for car number 22. In fact, during qualifying, Tsunoda was unable to showcase his pace due to an issue with his engine.<\/p>\n
Distant last after Saturday, the Japanese will finally not be able to start the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
If the AlphaTauri seems to be a well-performing car, Pierre Gasly has so far always managed to qualify his car in Q3. However, reliability is the Achilles’ heel of the Faenza team.<\/p>\n
In Bahrain, an engine problem goes up in smoke the hopes for Gasly’s points, in Jeddah a transmission issue prevents the Normand from finishing FP3 and Yuki Tsunoda was prevented from participating in qualifying. That makes it 4 incidents in just 2 races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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