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AlphaTauri: The transmission on the TSUNODA race car went HALF

Yuki Tsunoda would probably like to forget the qualifications in Imola as soon as possible, in which he completely demolished his car.

Photo: HB Press

A young Japanese man namely, in an attempt at a fast lap in Q1 lost control of his car and collided with the rear into the safety fence and completely smashed the back of his AlphaTauria AT02. The damage was discussed by the technical director of the second red bull team after the qualifications, Jody Egginton.

"We still don't have all the data, but the fact is that the gearbox has halved," he said Egginton, who also said there could be some damage to themselves as well drive unit: "We just have an inspection of the power unit to see what we're up to."

Jody Egginton confirms that the transmission on Tsunoda's car was halved in the collision - Photo: F1.com

Egginton says he was not overly surprised by such an accident: “When you have such a young and inexperienced racer, you can expect situations like this. Every Formula 1 driver sooner or later finds himself in such a situation. ”

Despite yesterday's accident at AlphaTauri count that tsunoda he won’t make many mistakes during the season. The Japanese will start today from the last starting position, Imola however, it is not known as a racetrack where it would be made it easy to overtake, so a novice will have a pretty hard job if he wants to repeat the success from Bahrain.

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