Ahead of last weekend's Qatar Grand Prix, Max Verstappen opined that if he were Oscar Piastri and McLaren leaned on him to support Lando Norris's title bid, he would "tell them to F off". Slightly different circumstances, granted, but Yuki Tsunoda did not follow this advice when he was directed to help his team-mate out with a tow during his first Q3 lap in Abu Dhabi.
Not that he needed this assistance, as it turned out, because his second flier was eight hundredths faster than his first. And both of them were faster than Norris and Piastri, his rivals for the drivers' title, could manage.
