Tsunoda was heard venting his frustrations over team radio after a surprise Q1 elimination in qualifying in Barcelona before he questioned the performan🙈ce of his own AlphaTauri car in relation to teammate Pierre Gasly’s.

Speak൩ing to Sky Sports F1 while qualifying while still o🤪ngoing, Tsunoda said: “It’s always different feedback compared to my team-mate, both sides are opposite.

“So, I have aꦐ little bit of a question mark: is it the sam💎e car?

“Obviously it is the same🥀 car, but the character of the car is too different. Maybe of course it is just a driving style, but yeah, I don’t know why I was struggling this much.”

The 20-year-old Japanese driver later ap🐻ologised for his comments in a social media post on Saturday evening.

“I wanted to apologise for my comments today,” he wrote on Twitter. “I didn’t mean to criti♉cise the team who have done a great job all weekend. I🍷 was just frustrated with my performance.”

In a separate post on his Instagram ♔account, Tsunoda added: “I am very fortunate to have a group of such talented and hardworking pe𒊎ople working on my car and wanted to apologise to the team for my comments today.

“I couldn’t maximise the potenꦅtial of the car and was frustrated with myself. Tonight, I will analyse the data with my engineers and make sure to improve for tomorrow.”

Tsunoda will line up fr💫om 16th on the grid for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix, while Gasly starts 12th.