Yuki Tsunoda has announced that he will enter the third season with Alpha Tauri F1 in 2023, but racingnews365 has a harsh opinion that it was not a choice of Red Bull, but a situation that forced him to do so. Says.
On the face of it, it’s good news for Yuki Tsunoda to continue his F1 career for at least another year. Retaining the driver is also good news for AlphaTauri and Red Bull, as Pierre Gasly would not need to hire two new drivers from the junior team if he moved to the Alpine F1 team.
However, this move is nothing but a pending pattern, and Yuki Tsunoda said that he was only given grace due to a combination of lucky circumstances, and in fact, with Red Bull a few years ago, Yuki Tsunoda had already given up. The next young driver would have been in the seat, racingnews365 explains.
Despite winning two F2 races in 2020 and finishing 3rd in the ranking, Yuki Tsunoda dismissed the view that the relationship between Red Bull and Honda helped him win a seat in AlphaTauri F1 in 2021. I haven’t been able to.
Yuki Tsunoda shined early in 2021, setting one of the fastest times in pre-season testing despite a DRS trickery and finishing ninth on his debut in Bahrain.
Red Bull were happy to have found a new superstar, but Yuki Tsunoda’s star was quickly fading and continued crashes overshadowed his progress. Two steps forward, one step back was a classic case of a rookie adapting to a Formula 1 car.
Yuki Tsunoda, portrayed in Drive to Survive, dislikes physical training and was transferred not to take things seriously. He could not develop a good image, especially for Dr. Helmut Marko.
The lowest point probably came in qualifying for the F1 Mexican Grand Prix, where he was handicapped by impeding both Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen. Red Bull F1 team principal Christian Horner used the coined word “Tsunodered” to criticize Yuki Tsunoda.
However, Yuki Tsunoda put together a great weekend at the final round of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, qualifying eighth and then admirably overtaking Valtteri Bottas on the final lap to finish fourth. All the action that was happening in front of him on lap 58 was disappointing, but as the old adage ‘all’s well that ends well’ goes, a rookie season that had a lot of potential but was a little faded. It was a promising finish.
With a year of experience, Yuki Tsunoda was in a good place to kick off his second season. But while the 2022 AlphaTauri car is certainly not as good as last year, Yuki Tsunoda hasn’t pushed this season.
Of the nine races completed by both Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly, Gasly leads in seven. In these races, Gasly finished with a total lead of 33 positions (about 4.7 positions per race). That’s almost a quarter of the grid.
In 16 races, Pierre Gasly has scored 22 points, double that of Yuki Tsunoda, and Argatauri is sinking to 8th place in the constructors’ ranking.
Red Bull and Helmut Marko know exactly what Pierre Gasly is capable of, with all his shortcomings. Gasly is a convenient ruler by which to measure Yuki Tsunoda.
Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri’s whole idea is to make the F1 driver worthy of a senior team, but Yuki Tsunoda’s promotion to Red Bull Racing is highly unlikely.
So why keep Yuki Tsunoda for a third season when other drivers such as Sébastien Buemi and Jean-Eric Vergne have been discarded with better results? because it needed to.
If Jermuth Marko sees Yuki Tsunoda as a driver with a long-term future in the Red Bull family, he wouldn’t try to acquire Colton Herta or Nick de Vries from outside.
Yuki Tsunoda is not seen as having the temperament of lead drivers like Pierre Gasly, Daniel Ricciardo, Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen. He’s a good number two.
With the musical chair game underway in F1 at the moment, it would have been better for AlphaTauri to have some certainty in their driver line-up early on so as not to scramble the market later in the season.
Nick de Vries has only started in one Grand Prix, but his F2 and Formula E championships and extensive experience as a Mercedes reserve means he cuts well into Pierre Gasly’s position. You can.
As for Colton Herta, he could be at AlphaTauri in 2024 if he can secure the eight extra superlicence points he needs, whatever means necessary.
If the pair pick up any pace in the F1 car, they would be the main contenders alongside Max Verstappen to replace Sergio Perez.
Yuki Tsunoda has therefore been given reprieve by Helmut Marko for 2023, but unless he stops his recent slide, it will not lead to promised land for Red Bull’s senior team, but only temporary. likely to become something.
F1 fans will be able to enjoy Yuki Tsunoda’s unique radio rant for at least another year.
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