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Yuki Tsunoda, the AlphaTauri driver from Japan, suffered a car failure, a rare DNS (Did Not Start) on the formation lap of the Italian GP, at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza. The 24-year-old was due to start the race in 11th place on the grid on September 3, Sunday, but he had to pull over to the side of the track on the back straight, after his car gave out, to end the day on a tough note.
As the AlphaTauri car of Yuki Tsunoda was being moved away, the Italian GP got delayed, but teams had the opportunity to work on their cars once more. With the original start being aborted, Carlos Sainz, the pole-sitter for Ferrari, took the 19 remaining cars to another formation lap on the circuit, for the race to begin.
Watch the video of Yuki Tsunoda's car failure here:
Meanwhile, in his two out of three appearances at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Yuki Tsunoda got DNS to show for all his efforts during the weekend. With that, AlphaTauri had only one driver in the race, Liam Lawson, who is a replacement for Daniel Ricciardo, to bring some points to the team.
Earlier, when Carlos Sainz, who had won the pole position in the Italian GP, was asked about converting it into a win for Ferrari at their home, he was quoted as saying, “I don't know - this is my honest answer is that at the moment my logic and logical mind tells me that Red Bull should be very quick tomorrow and very difficult to beat in the race, but I've been optimistic all weekend, I've been positive and it's worked for me so far, so I'm going to keep being optimistic and positive about tomorrow.”
