Yuki Tsunoda has explained how heᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ is adapting to Red Bull’s 2025 Formula 1 challenger,🦄 with a change in approach helping him unlock more lap time.

Tsunoda was thrust into a Red Bull seat at his home race in Japan in March without any prior testing with ✃the team.

Red Bull’s struggles in 2025 are well documented, with both his predecessor 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen explaining on several occasions that the R🐬B21 is a difficult car to drive.

Even 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tsunoda admitted that the💙 RB21 was “trickier” than he had originallജy anticipated after his first run in practice at Suzuka, but after logging more mileage he has offered a more balanced verdict on the car.

While he still believes it is “not easy” to drive, he suggested a major part of the challenge comes from transitioning to a car that is totally different to what he was used to during his four years at AlphaTauri/168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Racing Bulls.

“I’ll say it’s not complicat🧸ed [to dri꧟ve the Red Bull] in the sense of trying to drive around, but it’s still not easy, for sure,” he explained.

“In VCARB the car was a bit more lenient and forgiving with any directions. The Red🦩 Bull has ꦕa sharper, narrower window where it performs.

“It’s not easier than VCARB, but 💜better than I thought initially when I jumped into Red Bull. 

“This is the first time after joining Formula 1 [that I’m in a different car]. 🍸For four years I drove the same car and knew how to set it up and where the limit was. I just naturally didn’t have to think about it before.”

Tsunoda has made a significant change in his approach at Red Bull after discovering that the RB21 can paradoxically 🍬bꩲe quicker when it’s not well-balanced.

He is now lea𓃲rning to drive the car with understeer and oversteer, which in turn is helping him go f♒aster on track.

“The set-up I tried a couple of times꧂ in Suzuka that I thought would be good, just didn’t work out - even when in the car, the balance felt good, the lap time didn’t reflect it,” he said.

“So that needs to come from experience, and sometimes you just have 🐻to accept the difficulties of the car. Like, if it feels like a lot of understeer or oversteer, but lap time is good, probably stick to that direction. It’s a different approach. I’m learning as much as possible.

“The team is helping a lot with those directions. I just have to get used to it. But the limit, I just still don’t know ye♏t exactly. 

“Like in Q3 in Saudi, I pushed ♔a bit more and had a massive snap, which I didn’t expect. It will get there. I just try to keep my head down and slowly build up.”

“Even with the general environment [within the team], me and my engineer – he’s Scottish, so a 💛mix of Scottisﷺh English and my Japanese English – it’s a bit interesting. Those things just need more time to blend in.”

Tsunoda progress𝔉ed into Q3 in Bahrain and then logged his first points with the team with an eighth-place finish.

Another top 10 result seemed likely in Saudi Arabia after he qualified eighth, but an accident on the opening lap with Alpine’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly forced him into an early retirement.

While the 24-year-old’s early results have been objectively better than L🍨awson's, the Japanese driver still feels there is a lot of room for improvement.

He feels qualifying is one area where he need𝄹s to make the biggest jump, having trailed polesitter Verstappen by nine tenths of a second i𝔍n Jeddah.

“It just needs more time to get♈ used 𝔍to it fully,” he said ahead of the Miami GP. “I’m happy with the progress so far.

“The confidence is quite there, but just when you push 100% on the limit in qualifying, ꦬthat’s where you kind of faceꦍ it for the first time, right? Because you don’t push 100% until then.

“The starting point is always slightly below where I want 🍸♓to be or where I used to start with in FP1, so it takes a bit more time to build up on new tracks. 

“In qualifying, most of the time so far I experience new behaviour from the car and I’m not always able to cope with it. I wouldn’t say the car is super difficult – it just needs more time to define where the limit is.”