Yuki Tsunoda did not hold back on Thursday when he was asked if he could understand why fans might have made a conspiracy theory after his retirement from the Dutch Grand Prix.
The AlphaTauri driver felt a wheel was loose and stopped on the track Sunday. The team said all was well and to return to the pits. Tsunoda then went back out only to be told to stop a few corners later. A virtual safety car was brought out, and Max Verstappen made his pitstop. This essentially curbed Mercedes’s one-stop strategy.
AlphaTauri is the junior team of Red Bull, and conspiracy theories started to spread online.
