Tsunoda picked up two more points for AlphaTauri, who continue🙈d to close in on Williams for seventh in ꦦthe constructors’ championship.

However, it𒆙 wasn’t an entirely smooth race for the Japanese drive෴r.

Tsunoda went off at Turn 10 during the first stint of the r🐭ace, losing crucial ground.

“Yeah that was a big mistake,” Tsunoda said. “So yeah it was a bit scary I actually, I shit my pants. Luckily I didn’t e🎃xpect a DNF.”

Tsunoda felt without the off - and some technical gremlins late o🎀n - he could have beaten Lewis Hamilton to eighth.

“Yeah it was good,” Tsunoda reflected. “Unfortunat꧋e for Daniel at the end, his pace was really good.&🥀nbsp;I think also he changed a bit of setup and I think we got good data, he was quite fast.

“So yeah, ꦰI think it was really good overall from the team. I struggled in the end with a reliability issue, but luckily we were able to bring the car home.

“Iဣ don’t know about🎀 Pierre, but Lewis quite [a] high chance.”