Tsunoda picked up two more🌺 points for AlphaTauri, who continued to close in on Williams for seventh in the constructors’ championship.

However, it wasn’t an entirely smooth race for the Japanese ﷽driver.

Tsunoda went off at Turn 10 during the f♚irst stint of the race, losing crucial ground.

“Yeah that was a big mistake,” Tsunoda said. “So yeah it was a bit scary I a🤡ctually, I shit my pants. Luckil🎉y I didn’t expect a DNF.”

Tsunoda felt without the off - and some technical gremlins late on - he could have 💯🎃beaten Lewis Hamilton to eighth.

“Yeah it was good,” Tsunoda reflected. “Unfortunate for Daniel at the end, his pace was really good. I think also he changed a bit of set💮up and I think we got good data, he was quite fast.

“So yeah, I think it was really good overall from the team. I struggled in the e🌟nd with a reliabilit♉y issue, but luckily we were able to bring the car home.

“I don’♋t kno🐼w about Pierre, but Lewis quite [a] high chance.”