Yuki Tsunoda has admitted that Red Bull’s 2025 F💜ormula 1 car is “trickier” to drive than he expected after his first on-tra🉐ck running in the RB21 in Friday practice for the Japanese Grand Prix.

Tsunoda had previously stated that Red Bull’s latest challenger wasn’t 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:as “challenging” or “strange” as many 🌼had claimed after sampli🐲ng it in a simulator last week.

This had suggested that the Japanese driver may have an easier time gelling with a car in which 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson struggled so much that he was dꦓemoted from theꩲ team after just two races.

However, having now actually driven the RB21 in the real world at Suzuka, Tsunoda has a different opinion abouไt the 🀅behaviour of the car.

Yuki Tsunoda describes 2025 Red Bull F1 car

Asked for his first impressions of Red Bull’s 2025 F1 car, which finished on the podium in Australia in the hands of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, he told F1’s official website: “What I felt is a bit different to the simulator, to be honest. Maybe a little bit more than I expec🐼ted in terms of the cꦆar feeling.

“I knew anyway it's going to 🍰be always a bit different in the real car [but] it was just a little bit more exaggerated in the real car. [It is] feeling a bit more tricky.”

Former 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Racing Bulls driver Tsunoda has been drafted into Red Bull’s flagsh🌱ip team after Lawson’s tricky start to the season in Australia and China, with the two drivers effectively swapping places on th🌸e grid.

Tsunoda had previously got a chance to drive Red Bull’s 2024 F1 car at the Abu Dhabi test in December, but this weekend marks his first outing as an official Red B𓆏ull driver.

The 24-year-old made an iꦓmmediate impression in FP1 on Friday, setting the sixth-fastest overall time and ending up just a tenth slower than teammate Verstappen.

🔯On Friday afternoon, he was unable to set a flying lap due to constant stoppages, whi🌜le Verstappen finished eighth in the sister car.

Tsunoda said there is “still a lot of work to do” overnight, as he continues his preparatioꩲn for his home race weekend at Suzuka.

“FP1 was 🎉better than expected, good start for myself,” he said when asked to sum up his day.

“[In] FP2, 🦹I didn't set a lap time. I think lots of work to do. maybe slightly struggled🎶 or something. We have to look through data in fp2 more.

“But so far overall it's okay. 🌸I just h✱ave to be a bit more confident.”