Yuki Tsunoda rues ‘poor communication’ after early Sprint Qualifying exit in Miami leaves him in P18

Asked what had happened during his first run of the session, Tsunoda cited traffic in the pit lane as he explained: “Some intelligent car just came out from [the] pit and [I had to] abort my lap. A lot of cars cost my lap quite a lot.

“First lap… yeah, to be honest that’s it. In the last corner I had quite a lock-up, but to be honest the lap was pretty gone already from Turn 1 because of the car at pit exit. Just [wasn’t] able to do a proper lap at all, so that’s it.”

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When pushed on whether he had been aware of how tight it would be to reach the line in time for his second run, the 24-year-old responded: “Yeah, I was but I just… what do you want me to do, because there’s a car in front.