Referring to the amount of accidents Tsunoda has been involved in following his retirement at the Dutch Grand Prix, Binotto labelled Tsunoda as a “tsunami” in an interview with Italy’s Gazzetta dello Sport. 

Speaking ahead of this weekend’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Italian Grand Prix, Binotto issued an apology for his commen𝔍t, which caused offence in Japan. The country’s north-eastern coastal communit🅘ies were devastated by a 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami in 2011, which claimed the lives of nearly 16,000 people. 

“Cerꦯtainly I need to apologise and it was a mistake by using that word,” said Binotto. 

“It was no in🃏tention to do any anythinꦕg wrong and very close to the victims which I honestly I realised.

“I think that Tsunoda is a fantastic driver, is a great man and we've got a good relationship between the two [of us]. A𓃲nd that's a way that we simply call him i🎃n a way, to… as you said, it's a simple joke, but it's a bad joke.” 

Tsunoda has picked up a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:10-place grid penalty♌ for this weekend’s grand prix after reaching five reprimands during the 2022 season. 

He was issued a further three-place grid penalty after fai༺ling to slow for yellow flags during Friday practice, and ꦕis now just four penalty points away from a race ban.