Sharp-eyed observers have questioned rookie Yuki Tsunoda’s pace in the pre-season Bahrain test. Alpha Tauri’s young Japanese ended with the second fastest time behind sister team Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. “He delivered a sensational performance,” said Red Bull’s Dr Helmut Marko. However, tongue-in-cheek McLaren driver Lando Norris wrote on a post on Tsunoda’s Instagram account: “How’s the DRS?”. Indeed, keen-eyed observers have noticed that Tsunoda, 20, was activating his DRS some 100-200 metres before the actual DRS zones in Bahrain.

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