168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen has leapt to the defence of Red Bull teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda following his qualifying shocker at the F1 Spanish Gr🌞ཧand Prix.

While Verstappen qualified thir🔜d behind the McLaren pair, teammate Tsunoda was eliminated in the first part of qualifying with the slowest time, leaving him 20th🎃 and last on the grid for Sunday’s grand prix.

Four-time world champion Verstappen back𝕴ed his latest Red Bull teammate, telling Dutch ♐media he “isn’t a pancake”.

‘P💝annenkoek’ (pancake) is a Dutch insult used to descr♎ibe someone who is incompetent or useless.

Tsunoda is Verstappen’s second teammate this season, having been promoted from Red Bull’s sister team Racing Bulls to replace168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Liam Lawson,ꦗ who lasted just two races alongside the Dutchman.

Verstappen says Tsunoda’s ongoing🔯 struggles highlights jus🙈t how difficult Red Bull’s RB21 is to drive.

“When he was in those Racing Bulls, he always looked good compar🌠ed to Hadjar. But yeah, it is what it is,” Verstapp♕en said.

“🌳Of course it’s been going on for a long time.൩ Maybe that's a sign. Of what? That you can decide yourself.”

Yuki Tsunoda has ‘no idea’ why he was so slow

Tsunoda conceded he had “no idea why I’m slow”, explaining that “something strange was happening” relating to the grip levels he ♉felt.

"Suddenly compared to any other Grand Prix I lost performance🐼 quite significantly,” he said.

"Since FP1, the amount of grip I had was very low. Something s꧃trange was happening.

"We tried our best to cure the issue but, to be honest, whatever we did, we made a better balan♚ce but it was not, overall, a step forward.

"The lap I had in Q1 I was pretty happy with it𒅌, the confidence was there but the grip itself is not following at all. It's a pretty tough situation.”

Red Bull team principal Christian H♍orner said: "Yuki has struggled all weekend.

"We went🌜 up a little on th🉐e downforce to try and help him but it's difficult to understand, we will need to have a look at it."