Yuki Tsunoda says he has reconciled himself to being beaten by Liam Lawson in the race to the seat alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull – an admission he is perhaps moving towards to dispel the doubts Red Bull’s decision makers still hold about him.
Sitting alongside new Racing Bulls team-mate Isack Hadjar, team principal Laurent Mekies and CEO Peter Bayer in a press conference ahead of the F175 season launch at London’s O2 Arena, Tsunoda was speaking to an international audience for the first time since learning that Lawson had been chosen ahead of him. It was a measure of how pressing an issue his immediate future is that this subject was the second question, beaten to pole position only by a snarky enquiry about the team’s latest name change.
