AlphaTauri driver Nyck de Vries was unable to participate in final practice for Formula 1’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix due to a power unit setback.
AlphaTauri detected an issue ahead of the one-hour session and as a consequence the team has been forced into a power unit change.
It leaves Yuki Tsunoda as AlphaTauri’s sole participant in the sesson.
Full-time 2023 rookie de Vries has never before raced at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit and finished 17th at the end of Friday’s second session
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He finished the opening round of the season in Bahrain in 14th place.
The setback for de Vries and AlphaTauri comes a day after boss Franz Tost launched a broadside criticising his engineers over the performance of the AT04.
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