Max Verstappen has jumped to the defence of his latest teammate Yuki Tsunoda, pointing the finger more in Red Bull’s direction. When the team concluded that the gap between Verstappen and Sergio Perez was too big and sustained last year,

Max Verstappen has defended Yuki Tsunoda after his disappointing qualifying at the Spanish Grand Prix, saying his newest Red Bull team-mate is “not a pancake”. Tsunoda was slowest of all in Saturday’s qualifying at the Barcelona circuit,

Believing that Yuki Tsunoda’s struggles say more about the difficult Red Bull car than about the Japanese driver himself, Max Verstappen states that his teammate is no slouch