In the round-up: Yuki Tsunoda didn’t realise his DRS was broken until he was ordered to pit so his team could repair it.
In brief
Tsunoda was unaware of DRS failure
AlphaTauri driver Tsunoda was shown the black-and-orange flag during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, requiring him to pit so his team could fix a broken DRS flap. It was taped up and he was sent back out, though he finished out of the points.
“They didn’t tell me what the issue was so I thought it was an engine issue,” Tsunoda admitted after the race. “It was rear wing – I didn’t know that.”
Tsunoda said he would have been happy to continue with the broken wing without pitting for repairs.
“I was running okay pace,” he said. “Until the race director gave me that black-and-orange flag, I could still drive.
“I know as a team you don’t want to take a risk, especially as we have the cost cap. But I hope this was enough reason to come back, to be honest. If it’s only those things, to be honest, we should take the risk to carry that car because I was able to [drive] and I was kind of the same pace as Vettel also.”
Alonso expected more incidents in Azerbaijan GP
Fernando Alonso admitted he expected more incidents during Sunday’s race because the cars were so difficult to drive around the Baku City Circuit.
“Probably. I was expecting more, yes,” said the Alpine driver. “The race was difficult to execute and the cars are so stiff. You can hardly see the corners in some of the braking points, and things like that. So I thought we could make more mistakes between us, between drivers.”
Perez backs Red Bull team orders
Sergio Perez said he had no problem with being told to let him team mate pass him for the third time in three races, having done so twice in Spain.
His race engineer Hugh Bird told him “no fighting” as Max Verstappen approached to overtake him for the lead. “He was clearly a lot faster at that stage of the race,” said Perez.
“So it was the right call not to fight because I didn’t have any pace at the time and Max deserved to be ahead at that point.
“We also boxed too late. So, there were a few things that played into the result, but still at the end of the day, Max deserved the win, because he was the faster car.
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