Racing Bulls: Tsunoda should still be our target at Red Bull

racing bulls Racing director Alan Parmane says getting yuki tsunoda Red Bull should continue to target the squad’s satellite team following their neglect for 2025.

Red Bull decide to turn to Tsunoda’s less experienced 2024 team-mate Liam Lawson to change sergio perez to their main team for the upcoming season, ensuring that Tsunoda remained in the junior team for the fifth consecutive season, much to the Japanese driver’s dismay.

Red Bull has argued that it feels Lawson is better equipped to deal with the pressure of being in a frontline seat alongside the four-time world champion. max verstappenArguably the toughest team-mate in the series, and the New Zealander also offers better technical feedback.

Racing Bulls’ racing director Alan Parmane, who joined the team last year alpineAdmits that he too was initially “guilty” of having his own preconceived notions about Tsunada’s strengths and weaknesses, but says that the 24-year-old has positively surprised him.

“I have to admit I was guilty of it. I don’t know if he has made any steps this year because I have nothing to compare,” Parmane told Motorsport.com. “Sure, there are some inconsistencies he needs to improve on, a lot of areas he needs to improve on. But he’s what, 24? He’s still a young kid, so he’s got a lot of time to do that. And He knows what he needs to get the job done.

“You can hear and see that he gets frustrated at himself when he makes mistakes, but the speed is there, there’s no doubt about that. He’s very fast and his reactions are excellent, his English is excellent. I don’t know. Whether or not he did that was a limitation in the past, but I don’t see any limitations there and he’s a joy to work with, he really is.”

Parmane explained that Tsunoda and his Anglo-Italian team should still aim for promotion to Red Bull in the future.

“Hopefully, if I can help him get to 1% I would be very happy,” Parmane said. “I couldn’t be happier to take him to the level where he can go to the top team at Red Bull. Absolutely that should be his goal and that should be our goal. One of the reasons for this team – and it’s is no longer the only reason – to develop talent, if we can turn him into a race winner then that’s fantastic.”

According to Perman, Verstappen and McLaren like oscar piastri And lando norris There are good examples of calmness behind the wheel, and the team cited Verstappen’s spectacular comeback in a difficult Brazilian Grand Prix as a benchmark for handling challenging conditions during a Grand Prix.

“When he gets frustrated he gets frustrated at himself for being frustrated,” Parmane said. “He knows it and he’s working hard at it.

“I said: ‘Listen to the Oscars on the radio.’ He’s in his second year and he never panics or anything like that and he’s obviously very fast. You rarely hear Lando (Norris) get frustrated, and you have to get to that level. Is required.

“One of the things we did was to play the Brazil race, an extremely stressful situation, and Max and his engineer are just like they’re having a cup of coffee together in the afternoon. It’s the benchmark and all that information is there Working for these guys, and that’s one of the areas we’re working on with him.

“There are hundreds of things that they need to do and this is just a small area. But they are right in saying that when things are not going well they just need to come and download.”