Christian Horner has cleared up suggestions that Adrian Newey played a role in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda missing out on the Red Bull seat for the start of the 2025 F1 season.

T𓃲sunoda is set to make his Red Bull debut on Sund🍃ay at the Japanese Grand Prix.

The 24-year-old was promoted to Red Bull following Liam Lawson’s torrid two races with the team, forcing Horner to make a bru🌄tal change so early in the season.

Eve💃n though Tsunoda has been the second-best performing R🌳ed Bull driver, behind Verstappen, since the start of 2023, he’s been consistently overlooked.

Daniel Ricciard෴o was set to replace Sergio Perez ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix in 2024 before Red Bull decided against it.

Lawson got th🍌e call-up over Tsunoda at the end of 2024 despite fail꧂ing to out-qualify him.

One reason for that, accord🦄ing to Helmut Marko, is Newey.

, Marko said: “For a long time, Yuki had the image of not performing consistently and making silly mistakes here and there. That’s what happened last year in Mexico, where the decisive phase for us began.

“With Lawso⛄n, it was the exact opposite at first: he came on and delivered straight away, no matter how great the pressure was. In retrospect, however, it wasn’t the right decision.

“In general, however, a lot can be traced back to a single incident. At Silverstone, Tsunoda once drove into Pierre Gasly’s car, and parts of the cars♒ on the track damaged the un🍌derbody of Verstappen’s car, which cost him the race. Adrian Newey was furious at the time.

“From that point on, Yuki wasဣ a red🌃 rag to him. But now Newey is gone, and Yuki has worked hard on himself.”

Adrian Newey had “no input”

Newey step🌊ped away from Red Bull after the Miami Grand Prix.

The F1 design guru decide﷽d to ta💙ke a break from F1 before taking up a fresh challenge.

Newey is spearh♏eading Aston Martin’s F1 project, starting work in early March.

Speaking to Sky Sports after ඣFP1 at Suzuka, Horner was asked about Marko’s cl🌼aim.

“Adrian wasn’t in𒐪volved in drivers certainly for this year,” H♎orner replied.

“I think from the comments I saw that 🦂Helmut was referring to an incident back in 2022 at Silverstone. Adrian had no input into our driver selection fo🌱r this year.”