The Japanese GP will be the debut of Japan's own Yuki Tsunoda with Red Bull Racing and he would be driving the RB21 alongside his new teammate, Max Verstappen.
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Yuki Tsunoda was promoted the other way and finds himself in the toughest job in motorsport – being teammate to reigning world champion Max Verstappen. It’s something of which the world champion is very aware.
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PlanetF1 on MSNRed Bull contract reveal busts Ralf Schumacher’s Tsunoda rejection pleaEven though Ralf Schumacher had urged Yuki Tsunoda to turn down a Red Bull promotion, that would have been impossible anyway. That is because – as revealed by Red Bull senior advisor Helmut Marko and former boss of their junior F1 team Franz Tost – Tsunoda was obliged to move up to Red Bull under the terms of his contract.
Max Verstappen said that it “was not a mistake” that he liked an Instagram post criticizing Red Bull’s decision to swap Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda just two races into the new Formula One season.
Just after two rounds, it was announced that Red Bull Racing will replace Liam Lawson with Yuki Tsunoda with intermediate effect. Pierre Gasly, who was previously as the same boat as the driver from New Zealand,
Yuki Tsunoda's career in Formula 1 took a pivotal turn after a heated incident in Bahrain with Daniel Ricciardo. Recognizing the need to manage his em