Yuki Tsunoda arrived in Red Bull and will start behind Liam Lawson

The Japanese could not access Q3 in the Japan GP and will leave 15th. The New Zealander, sent back to Racing Bulls, will chop a position ahead.

Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Liam Lawson, Checo Pérez … Max Verstappen teammates in Red Bull accumulate. Taking the closure of the 2024 season and the first three appointments of 2025, the tetrampone had three different pilots in the last four races: Czech in Abu Dhabi, Lawson in Australia and China and, now, Yuki Tsunoda in Japan. The novel that was woven in the last two weeks inside Milton Keynes with respect to the pilot who would occupy the second RB21 armchair monopolized all the headlines of Formula 1. Finally, the decision arrived: The Popes of the Escudería de la the Energy Drinks determined to go down to Lawson, after just two races, and climb to Yuki. The New Zealand was degraded to Racing Bulls and thus arrived in Suzuka.

Of course, the eyes of the world that follows the category were placed on the performance of Tsunoda in Red Bull. Lawson had not competed, I could hardly carry the RB21 because of the gray. He did not even exceed Q1 in any of the three classifications he played (the Chinese sprint is added) and the closest thing was almost four tenths. Helmut Marko, advisor to the Austrian Team, and Christian Horner, the director, decided the red. And Tsunoda did not start badly, because in the only logical trial on Friday (the second was interrupted four times with red flags) there had been 107 thousandths of Max, as in the best old days of Czech.

The progression of the weekend was changing things. Although in the Q1 Max he barely beat Yuki for 24 thousandths, in Q2 everything changed. The Dutch took 495 thousandths and entered leftover in Q3, while the Japanese was last in the group to occupy the 15th starting drawer in the start of this Sunday (first time he does not advance to the last classification group in 2025). One more fact to increase morbidity: Lawson was 14th with Racing Bulls.

“The differences are small. Perhaps the heating of the covers in the return prior to the last attempt was not good, it was a complicated session. A pity. I hope to do the best possible in the road of my house,” said a sorry tsunoda, who was assured that he will be in Red Bull until the end of the year. But sure …

In the middle of the enrves, the changes and other herbs, The second best pilot, or the best of land within the drinks of the drink, was Isack Hadjar! The French rookie, the same one who could not start in Australia after hitting the previous return, who cried inconsolably and received the Marko attack, was seventh in the classification. He got into Q3 in the last two races and closed a great job in Japan, far ahead of Lawson and Tsunoda. It is not something that if Yuki does not go well in some races …