How Dun’s McLaren Outing shows that the driver is not a change while changing the red bull

Yuki Sunoda Now there is nine Grands Prix under your belt red BullAfter taking over Liam LawsonFormula 1 seat in Japanese GP.

The effect has been negligible till now. Tsunoda has scored only seven points at that time, while team-mate Max Verustapane Racking 119. Tsunoda’s recent qualifying results do not portray a better photo. With punishment, the Japanese driver has started the last five races from the 20th, 12th, 19th, 18th and again 18th from grid posts.

Generally, such results increase pressure, but this time the situation in the red bull is different. If the last six months have shown anything, it is that the main issue is not a lie with the drivers. Sergio Perez Could not distribute last year (and now claims that the team is letting him go), Liam Lawson failed to create an impact in a limited time, and Sunoda is now in the same boat. The problem is structural – so the team’s advisor Helmut Marco repeatedly requests that Japanese driver Will finish the season in red bull,

Anyone can also say that Tsunoda’s performance hardly matters – as long as he avoids expensive crash. With cost cap and 2026 looming in place, damage to damage is already eaten in limited development budget. But, from the perspective of a game, the Red Bull Constracts seems to be in the championship to lead to the P4, no matter what the second seat occupies.

There are no clear options: Isac Hadzar It is admitted that he does not yet feel ready, and it will once again have to derail a young talent’s career for the Red Bull. Lawson already had a shot, and Arvid Lindblad is a long -term project, in which racing bulls intend to have natural steps stones. Really, there are no immediate options.

This is why the leaders of the Red Bull’s team are responding with a more measured language this time, even after Tsunoda finished the final location of the drivers classified into the Austrian Grand Prix. With a red bull, one Mercedesand both Williams The cars out of the race failed to score the same point, yet the hornaner stuck to a factual breakdown in his post-race media session: “Yuki had a terrible race, again it became wrong for him in Q1.

Horner added to the hospitality region of Red Bull. “Obviously the car has evolved over a specific direction for years, but we will see if we can help Yuki and rebuild his confidence in silverstone.” This pressure is different from campaigns, Red Bulls and Marco have used in the past, but, given the lack of options, it makes sense.

Dunna’s FP1 Session was another eye opening

If Red Bull has learned one thing in recent months, this problem is with the car – not drivers. Vestepane defended Sunoda weeks ago in a Dutch media session, saying: “Yuki is not a pancake, isn’t it?” – Using the word Dutch ‘Panenkok’, for someone who is disappointing or completely disabled. “When he was in the racing bulls, he always looked better than the Hudjar. And the problem has been going on for a long time. It is probably a sign.” Asked what it says, he replied: “You can answer yourself.”

During the Spielberg weekend, Red Bull received another “sign” – this time outside his own garage. Formula 2 driver Alex Dune completes his first F1 practice session McLaren – And at the fourth place, the fastest time was just two tenth place. Certainly, questions about fuel load and engine mode remain, and they can be more favorable for Dun – but the Red Bull still has a clear conclusion.

When the autosport sat with Marco to talk about the second -seat headache of the Red Bull, Austrian admitted that he had seen footage on a ship of Dune. He said, “They had some short moments and there, but when McLaren has a small slide, the car almost corrects itself,” he said. “With us, it is always a tight – to balance continuously or barely keep the car on the track.”

Marco gestured the FP3 in the Red Bull Ring, where both Red Bull Drivers wandered, and even a full-fledged 360-degree rotation in a small moment for Vastapane. According to Marco, Vastapane is the only person who can still manage it, but the leadership of the Red Bull knows that the story is completely different for someone else in another seat.

The FP1 appearance of Dunna showed Marco that the McLaren car is a “plug-and-play” for a fraudulent driver compared to the RB21, which is always “on the edge of the knife”. This is the fact that the jump from racing bulls to red bulls is very high. The racing bulls car has a wide operating window and forgive to drive. According to the drivers, it is one of the easiest cars on the grid, while the red bull is at the full opposite end of the spectrum.

Conversely the contrary cannot be a starker, as Alexander Albon recently explained: “It is also difficult because – maybe it’s my own interpretation – but RB It is a very forgiving car. It is quite well balanced, it is very stable, it gives you great confidence. I think it naturally becomes that kind of car because they are always crooks in that car. Therefore, the foundation of the team is built on young drivers. And then the red bull is almost (other) extreme. You are going from one of the cars that are forgiving for the most difficult. And so you are quite favorable for two very different cars. ,

And it has proved to be much more for the joint-all with a team-partner facing adaptation-wrestpane. Daniel Reciardo, Pierre GalliAlbon, Perez, Lawson, and Tsunoda have all struggled. The red bull can add another name to that list, but the team leaders understand that it would be meaningless to do so. The car is the problem and the irony is that the Spielberg Weekend – including Dunna’s runs in McLaren – made it more clear than ever.

It also underlines how dependent the red bull is – and how can it be related to things If Dutchman really leavesThe picture that Austrian Grand Prix has portrayed without a red bull team has been seen from far away …