The pre-season tests recently archived in Barcelona were the first step for teams and drivers towards the 2022 world championship, the same in which Yuki Tsunoda will participate in his second year in Formula 1. The Japanese ofAlphaTauriwho had made his debut with the same team last season, won his reconfirmation in Faenza after a championship alternating with good performances – the best ever in the last round in Abu Dhabi, with the 4th place finish – and from errors that have even questioned the continuation of his adventure in the Circus.
Once this danger has disappeared, the team principal of the Italian house, Franz Tostis now convinced that his pilot will face 2022 with greater attention, also on an aspect that the 21-year-old Japanese would have underestimated before his debut: that of physical endurance to the solicitations of the single-seater, and to the relative one Preparation. The Austrian manager, as reported by racingnews365.com in some statements released to the media, he would also have noted this approach not only in Tsunoda, but in general also in other rookie drivers in the Circus: “It’s not just Yuki that underestimates how physical it is to drive a Formula 1 car – said Tost – but it is a common phenomenon a all young drivers when they land there first time in a car of Formula 1, because this is really another dimension. I always tell them: ‘Now your real hard work will begin. All you did before was kindergarten. Now you have to start working, and be disciplined. ‘ However – he added – he was not the only one to have encountered problems from a physical point of view: the greatest stresses derive from braking or cornering, where they are really very high. I don’t know of any driver who has arrived in F1 without experiencing any problems. There is a need for special training“.
Still on the subject of preparation, Tost finally highlighted the main differences between those faced by today’s pilots and those of the past, with the latter ‘favorites’ from a different program from the current one: “Let me tell you – He admitted – 10 or 15 years ago it was easier, also because there were many more tests. Drivers today have to go to the gym more, they have to do a lot of physical training, and we mustn’t forget that these machines are getting faster and faster. Yuki is doing a good job, and it shows. He trained a lot during the winter months and, from a physical point of view, he is at a much higher level than last year ”.
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