An unhappy Yuki Tsunoda made a point of re-passing his team mate after the Bahrain Grand Prix had finished.
Tsunoda locked his tyres as he dived down the inside of Daniel Ricciardo at turn eight as they returned to the pits after taking the chequered flag. He then drove close to his team mate as they approached to turn nine.
“What the fuck?” Ricciardo exclaimed as Tsunoda passed him. “Oh, save it.”
Tsunoda expressed his dissatisfaction earlier in the race when he was instructed to let Ricciardo pass him. The pair were running behind Kevin Magnussen at the time, Tsunoda on hard tyres and Ricciardo on softs.
Ricciardo encouraged the team to consider swapping their positions, telling them: “Whatever advantage I have, we lose it.” Soon afterwards he was told: “We will do driver swap this lap”
Tsunoda reacted angrily to being told to give up 13th place to his team mate. After letting Ricciardo through he told the team sarcastically: “Yeah, thanks guys, I appreciate it.”
Asked after the race why Tsunoda had driven so close to his car after the race Ricciardo said: “I don’t know. I came on the radio and was trying to stay cool.”
“I’m being very sensible right now, but let’s call it immaturity,” he told the official F1 channel. “He’s obviously frustrated with the team orders call.
“But let’s be real, this is something we talked about before the race. It was very likely I was going to use a soft at the end of the race. So he knew that there was a chance that I would have a pace advantage at the end and if he gets the call, then it’s going to happen.
“He’s not giving me points, we’re fighting for 13th, so at least give us the best chance to get at least one car in the points.”
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