Yuki Tsunoda goes into the Portuguese GP weekend off the back of a terrible weekend at Imola. The AlphaTauri driver had several off-track moments during the Emilia Romagna GP weekend, including a big crash in Q1 that saw him qualify right at the back. Having had a great debut race in Bahrain, Tsunoda said he's reset his mentality for his weekend in Portugal and intends to have a calmer Grand Prix. "So expectation for me, for this week, is lower than Imola," Tsunoda admitted to media, including RacingNews365. " But just try to build up the pace from the previous one, lap by lap. And for qualifying, I have to change approach, especially from Imola. "Just in Q1, there was my big problem. There was the pace to go through into Q2 easily for the car. So I will change approach to qualify. I will try to have more consistency in qualifying. That's my main target." Tsunoda admitted that, having had such a good weekend first time out, he had given himself too high a target for his level of experience. "[The] big learning thing was the mentality thing," Tsunoda went on. "I put a lot of pressure before the race week to score a lot of points. And that makes me a little bit rushy feeling." "Imola was, for me, a big week for learning. I did two huge mistakes in the race week and, as a result was for me and for the team also, was a very bad race week. "I expect more high positions and also there was a quite big chance to score points. So it was a real shame and I felt really sorry for the team but as a driver, for the learning, I learned a lot from Imola and then Bahrain and I take it very positive for the future. "So it's quite mixed feeling but that also for me I need a clean race for the team and I think as a championship for the team standings. I think the performance is there so I just have to put all together in the future."
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