The Japanese Grand Prix saw Yuki Tsunoda earn points in his home nation for the first time and once again outpeform RB teammate Daniel Ricciardo who crashed out of the race
The Japanese ace became the first driver from his nation to record points on home turf since 2012, when Kamui Kobayashi achieved the feat. Tsunoda finished 10th on Sunday to earn points for RB for a second Grand Prix in a row after earning seventh position in Australia.
"Our team did a fantastic job, our mechanics, had a very fast pitstop and overtook two cars, insane. Without them, without that, it would probably be more difficult to score points today. Big credit to the team and obviously able to score in the points in front of Japanese fans, finally, very happy."
Ricciardo was frustrated to not make it into Q3, with Tsunoda the figure to have displaced him after having the possibility of going through. The Aussie admitted he was annoyed in the aftermath. "After yesterday, to come out today and give a strong showing, we've got to take that. It's been a steady start to our year so a day like this... it certainly isn't a win, I'm not going to go that far, but you do see some positives in it so we'll try to hold on to those."
“It just looks like Yuki and I didn’t have the grip that we anticipated and as soon as we launched I could see Bottas and Hulkenberg just split us and go around. And then into One, I was in the middle with Yuki and an Alpine. And into Turn Two I thought ‘all right, let’s just settle’.
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