Tsunoda suffered his 🍒latest Q1 elimination on Friday evening at Silverstone in F1’s new-format weekend, leaving him a disappointed 16th on the grid for the championship’s 🍎first-ever sprint race.

The 21-year-old Japanese driver blamed being called to the weighbridge for a random che🔯ck which he felt ruined his qualifying.

Tsunoda found himself stuck in traffic due to the delay and was hampered as 🧔he prepared for his push lap in his bid to advance to Q2.

“I’d 🤡s♏ay the weighbridge fucked everything,” Tsunoda said after qualifying.

“Jus🙈t at the end it was really tight and I couldn’t do a proper cool-down lap. And also the last corners a lots of cars were waiting.

“I lost already three-tenths in the main straight, I almost regained the three tenths in the lap but with the loss I already have in sector one and main straight, and also I couldn’♑t do proper cool down lap… it’s just a shame.

“Even [though] there was no perfect lap due to the traffic, I star🌠t to get used to it for the driving and I started to also feel the confidence. It feels like I got startedཧ now but it’s already finished in Q1.”

AlphaTauri chief race engineer Jonathan Eddolls 🐼was convinced that Tsunoda would have advanced into the second part of qualifying had he not been caught in a traffic jam.

“Yuki was looking set to progress into Q2, but a traffic jam in the last corner when starting his final lap cost him nearly 0.2s before turn one – he did well to make most o🍷fꦡ this time back, but sadly it was not enough,” he explained.