Yuki Tsunoda revealed he apologised to Racing Bulls for the feedback he made to the media about Liam Lawson.
The pair drove collectively on the workforce final yr, when it was generally known as RB. Tsunoda is now at Purple Bull and accused Lawson of impeding him throughout qualifying for the grand prix on the Circuit of the Americas final week.
Tsunoda informed his race engineer “Lawson is disturbing me on goal, like, slowing down like hell within the corners.” After the session he mentioned: “For Lawson it’s all the time [the] common story – it’s simply [he’s] all the time do[ing] one thing on goal.”
The Purple Bull driver additionally complained about Lawson’s driving in qualifying for the dash race. Nevertheless on Thursday in Mexico, Tsunoda revealed he had apologised to his former workforce.
“I apologised to the workforce,” he mentioned. “What I mentioned, particularly within the media was very pointless.”
Tsunoda added he hadn’t mentioned the state of affairs with Lawson. The Racing Bulls driver mentioned: “I don’t actually know what occurred in Austin to be sincere.”
“It’s an intense a part of the season,” Lawson continued. “For certain, clearly, every weekend’s going to be powerful.
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“It’s simply extremely shut this yr. Every session – particularly in qualifying – we’re making an attempt to extract every thing. So it’s little issues that make a distinction.”
The pair have usually discovered themselves in competitors for locations inside Purple Bull’s junior workforce construction and collided on a number of events after they raced one another in junior classes.
On the finish of final yr Lawson beat Tsunoda to win promotion from Racing Bulls to Purple Bull. Nevertheless after simply two rounds the groups swapped the drivers. Neither driver has a confirmed seat for subsequent yr in F1.
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