Yuki Tsunoda makes punchy ‘I can beat’ Max Verstappen claim

Yuki Tsunoda is backing himself to beat Max Verstappen🐠 once he fully gets on top of Red Bulꦅl's F1 car.

Yuki Tsunoda
Yuki Tsunoda

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda believes he can beat Red Bull F1 teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen once he has unlocked everything from his car.

Following his shock Red Bull promotion just two races into the 2025 F1 season as a replacement for the struggling 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Liam Lawson🎃, Tsunoda has been getting to grips with the tricky-to-drive R﷽B21.

Having endured a disappointing debut on home soil in Japan, Tsunoda felt he made encouraging progress with Red Bull’s 🐲car as he reached Q3 and𓆏 scored his first points for the team with a ninth-place finish in Bahrain.

And it appears Tsunoda isn’t afraid to set himself bold ta♏rgets, having declared he can “probably beat” Verstappen once he unlocks all he needs from the 2025 Red Bull.

“It’s my first time driving a c𓄧ompletely different car,” Tsunoda told media including Motorsport Week in Jeddah.

“I ꦚonly drove with VCARB for the last four years, so it’s the first time I drove a completely different team’s car.

“I’m trying to use that, and I know that iꦑf I unlock🌞 that area, I would be able to probably beat him.

“I know myself that I can’t beat him straight🧸 away, so I’m just trying to build a good baseline and wait for the moment that I can be in the shape, yeah.”

What Yuki Tsunoda is learning from Max Verstappen

Tsunoda said he is paying close attention to how Ver🌳stappen operates as he continues his adaptation at the Red🌟 Bull senior team.

“I'm just trying to understand how this car operates, how this car performs well. I think I'm not really🦩 understanding even half of it,” he said.

“These thin🐬gs are the key that I'm trying to work really hard on to understand as soon as possible, so I can work on🍸 different sort of stuff - all sorts of development and whatever.

“So far, I'm able to kind of put it all together in the qualifying and t⛄he race, but also at the same time it's quite up and down. There's a bit of up and down from FP1 to FP3. So I just want to be more consistent throughout.”

Tsunoda added:“I knew🌠 how Max builds throughout the week, builds the confidence throughout the week, compared to how I build t🐬he confidence throughout the week.

“It’s completely different because he already has massive confidence in this car𒉰. So I just make it separate and try to nail it down in qua🍌lifying.”

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