Bearman Questions Tsunoda’s Dangerous Driving in US GP

Bearman Criticizes Tsunoda’s Driving Style at the United States Grand Prix

The young Formula 1 driver, Oliver Bearman, has expressed his dissatisfaction with the way Yuki Tsunoda drove during the United States Grand Prix. Bearman described Tsunoda’s driving as dangerous and a bad example for young aspiring drivers. The tension between both drivers arose when Tsunoda, while defending his position mid-race, forced Bearman to take evasive action to avoid an incident with the Red Bull. Tsunoda blocked the entrance to turn 15, which caused Bearman to go off track and lose control of his car.

“I felt that what he did was quite dangerous, it goes against the spirit of how we should race and against the image we should project to the children growing up in karting and those things. This is not the way we race. He was moving all over the place for a few laps. And when I finally put my nose in and tried to overtake, he reacted and didn’t leave the width of a track car, and that’s unfair, it’s not allowed, and that forced me to avoid him. It could have caused a big accident, honestly, without my quick evasion, so it’s a great shame,” declared Bearman.

Oliver Bearman

Bearman finished the race in ninth position, while Tsunoda achieved seventh place. The Haas driver regretted that the incident prevented him from obtaining a better result.

Bearman also criticized Tsunoda’s performance in the Sprint race, where, according to him, Tsunoda caused an incident with another car. “In the Sprint race, he went to the inside in turn 1 and took out his sister car. In the main race, he did the same in turn 1 again. I feel that his driving can be a bit desperate and that was demonstrated in his defense today,” added Bearman. For his part, Tsunoda downplayed the incidents, stating that they were “racing”.

“That’s racing, right? I was totally in control, I had no lock-up and I was literally side by side. I’m not his teammate, I’m just fighting to be in the top 10 or more, so yeah, I thought it was okay,” declared Tsunoda.

Yuki Tsunoda

Tsunoda added: “I don’t think I moved under braking. Just a bit unfortunate how we ended up in that race like that, especially since we were having a good fight until then.”