De Vries was dropped by the Faenza team last week in favour of Daniel Ricciardo just 10 races into his rookie season.
Speaking ahead of this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, Tsunoda says he learned a lot from the 2020-21 Formula E champion despite being the more experienced driver in F1 terms, specifically in terms of how detailed feedback can be.
The 2013 Rush movie highlighted Lauda’s acute sensitivity to the behaviour of both road and racing cars, and Tsunoda revealed that De Vries’s comments carried a similar level of detail.
“Especially the feedback after the session,” he said when asked about De Vries’s feedback. “Like to the team, how the car behaves, it's really specific.
"I never seen a driver like that, he is saying really specific [things], describing each detail, which are easy to understand. And yeah, it's really specific.
“And I can tell like why he had such successful results in the past. It's those places, which was probably a bit of limitation for me, that I have to go a step forward.
"And probably Nyck was a really good example and good reference on what I have to do, so yeah, especially those places.”
Asked to elaborate on how much detail De Vries used to describe the car, he said: “How the car behaves through the corner, he starts from like braking, late entry, mid-corner exit.
“Obviously, I'm saying that each part of the corners, how the car behaves, but he's a little bit more like he says the limitation, but also he suggests the kind of options to solve those issues. Also for future development.
Source: Autosport