F1: Helmut Marko provides support to Yuki Tsunoda, for now …

Red Bull’s advisor spoke Loas del Japanese, who was promoted urgently from Racing Bulls to replace Liam Lawson. How long will love last?

March 2024. Yuki Tsunoda ran in Racing Bulls with Daniel Ricciardo of a companion. Both pilots were Under Helmut Marko’s watchful eyeStrong man within the structure of Red Bull, because he was in dance the position of teammate of Max Verstappen by 2025. The Austrian analyzed the Japanese and was lapidary: “Tsunoda’s classification speed is good, but in the race it is too slow.” Two months later, Milton Keynes team would renew the link to Checo Pérez for a season.

The time passed and the Mexican began fighting with his RB20 and Marko was strict: at the end of 2024 they terminated the signed contract (the decision lept 18 million euros to Red Bull) and Marko and company had to choose a replacement between two applicants: Liam Lawson and Tsunoda. The Japanese turned with the RB20 in the postseason trials in Abu Dhabi, but the choice was already made by the New Zealander. The tantrums of the Yuki, added to the fact that he is a Honda pilot and the wing brand will end his link with the Austrians at the end of 2025, twisted the balance.

March 2025. After two very famous performances in Australia and China, the Neozyre was ejected from the Red Bull armchair and returned to Racing Bulls. You had to look for a replacement again. And if, There was no other … tsunoda. The 10 million extra euros that Honda contributed for the jump of the pilot born in Sagamihara was an important push. And Marko spoke again of that pilot who only one year before was slow in the race.

“We will give Yuki until the end of the season because we believe he can do the job. Tsunoda took a big step. It is strange that after four years, now in his fifth, he has a much stronger personality, more confidence and has made two very good careers, the Racing Bulls strategy simply did not work,” said the Expileot and advisor to the brand of energy drinks.

Can the Japanese tame an RB21 that only seems to be able to put in competition one Max Verstappen? It is the bet that the Red Bull popes made from Japan. The great dilemma is what they will do in Milton Keynes if Yuki has a performance similar to Lawson’s. And, of course, if that happens, the spring that Marko lives with the Japanese will end in a jiffy. There are several pilots who passed from the pampering to the porns of the iron Helmut.