Yuki Tsunoda says he is still at a loss of how to "extract performance" from his AlphaTauri Formula 1 car after a difficult Canadian Grand Prix weekend.
In a slow start to the season for AlphaTauri, Tsunoda has been a shining light, picking up their only two points with 10th place finishes in Australia and Azerbaijan.
The Japanese driver also has three 11th places to his name but had a quiet weekend in Montreal, having been knocked out in Q1 and then being unable to fight for points.
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Tsunoda's troubles in Canada
Reflecting on his weekend, Tsunoda admitted that Canada was the first weekend of the season he "wasn't able to perform".
"It's a shame," he told the F1 Nation podcast.
"I'm pretty happy with the performance I did in the race, but I just have to put it all together.
"We definitely have to work on the qualifying pace. With the conditions we had, with the damp track, we expected to have a good qualifying, because FP3 in the rain was pretty good.
"We were comfortably top six, top eight (Tsunoda finished eighth), but qualifying was not what we expected and we struggled a lot.
"Even though the race pace was okay to be in the top 10, we started from P19 – which is not ideal.
"Everyone is in a DRS train, it is quite difficult to overtake here, so it didn't work in our favour and our strategy had a bit of bad luck as well."
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