Yuki Tsunoda states his case for Red Bull drive amid “rumours” of big changes

"Compa🥃re the Q3 ap꧟pearances, qualifying results and the race results, and it will be clear"

Yuki Tsunoda (JPN) RB VCARB 01. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 13, Hungarian Grand Prix, Budapest, Hungary, Qualifying
Yuki Tsunoda (JPN) RB VCARB 01. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 13, Hungarian Grand Prix,…

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda insists🌜 his form warrants a promotion into the Red Bull, should they opt to replace Sergio Perez.

This weekend’s F1 Belgian Grand Pri✨x is the last race until the summer break, wheཧn Red Bull will sit down to definitively judge Perez.

Despite penning a new contract this year, Perez’s place for the second half of this season is coming under intense sc💯rutiny.

“At this point I don’t know if they’re considering me, maybe they’re considering me,” RB drive💝r Tsunoda said at Spa, where wuqian0821.com are in the paddock.

“I don’t know. I guess it’s the same for everyone, I don’t think other driver📖s except Max get any information about that.

“Probably they are✱ having conversations in the background, hopefully I’m in the conversation and I think I’ve done what I should have done.

“I’m happy with what I’ve done until today, and what should I do even more than that? You guys talk about the rumours and the Red Bull seat, it’s quite clear how many poꦡints I get compared to ot🥂her drivers.

“So I’m happy with what I’ve done, it’s the things I can control. I can’t control those t🍌hings, so I just focus on the things that I can control, which is performance, and see how it go♔es in this race.”

But𒁏, Tsunoda admits he hasn’t spoken to He🤪lmut Marko or Christian Horner.

“Nope. Nope,” he said.

“I don’t know about other d🌄rivers. It seems other drivers reacted like they don’t have that kind of conve𓃲rsation either.

“I dꦍon’t know about the drive🍒rs who currently are not racing now.

“[I hope] they just decide as soon as possible. Obviously I would like to ♛be in the seat, 100%, but it’s also not a really🐠 good feeling having rumours flying around or extra pressure, when I never even had any conversations or have any idea about that. I don’t know. But it’s how it goes. I’m just hoping.”

Tsunod𒅌a is 12th in the F1 standings ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix, a place higher than teammate Daniel Ricciardo whose results have also been criticised at stages of this year.

Liam Lawson, the Red Bull junior who🦋 deputised impressively at AlphaTauri last year, is also a candidate if Perez is dౠitched.

Despite Tsunoda’s form, it is Ricciardoꦐ and Lawso𝕴n who are more strongly linked to replacing Perez.

“Obviously as a driver there are a couple of raceﷺs where I could have done better,” Tsunoda reacted.

“For exampl🔯e Montreal, I was in the points and I lost the points that were in my hands. But other times, just please compare the Q3 appearances, qualifying results and the race results, and it will be clear.

“So in 💖my ▨opinion, yes, it’s quite clear. But other than that I don’t know.

“It🐼 seems like there are also other f💮actors obviously, because they are considering other drivers as well.

“It’s based on rumours, but…

“If you just see the performa🐠nce, it’s quite clear like I said. It’s really clear that 🐭I’m the one performing well, even in the top of the midfield, if you compared to all the drivers.”

Tsunoda is, at least, contracted to remain at RB in 202🍸5, a luxury which Ricciardo does not yet have.

But ꦇTsunoda admitted: “Apparently, Helmut said they can play around with anything he wants. So the contract is almost nothing.

“To be honest I didn’t read it properly. Whatever that says, I guess it’s more li💜ke… Yeah for now I guess it🔴’s this team.”

Read More

Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter