Red Bull decided to move F1 rookie Yuki Tsunoda to Italy after Monaco crash
Tsunoda has been🦂 living in the UK close to Red Bull’s Milton Keynes headquarters but the team is planning to relocate the 21ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ-year-old Japanese racer to Faenza, where AlphaTauri is based.
It comes following a difficult spell for Tsunoda, with Red 𒀰Bull hoping the move will help rebuild his confidenc♔e.
Tsunoda was informed of the decision on Saturday in Monaco, two days after he lost🔴 valuable track time in FP2 after touching the barriers early in the sessi𒆙on.
“When I crashed in FP2 it was not a good thing,” Tsunoda sai𝓀d.
“Red Bull was not happy with that. We were talk𒅌ing to Red Bull and AlphaTauri, that it’s good to ha♑ve a big change for me, because I think in the last three or four races, I haven’t had good races and to change something can make a big difference.
“They decided for me to move to Italy, to have more chats w♐ith the engineers and to also g൲o to the factory and have an opportunity to talk about the car.
“That’s a really good decision for me. Actually, I was asking🐈 Red Bull from the beginning of the season if it was possible to move to Italy, but they said at first ‘no’ so I was staying in Milton Keynes.
“But actually I can now I can go to Italy and spe🥀nd a bit more time wit🤡h the team. So that’s positive for me.”
He will be supervised closely by AlphaTauri team principal F🌳ranz Tost, who Tsunoda revealed has been “mostly in charge” of devising a new and intense training schedule for him, as well as English classes.
“From 9am, a gym session until 11,” h🍬e explained. “I never had this experience of a big morning gym session.
“And 11 to 12♛30 was engineering meetings. Then lunch, and also English lessons because my English is not perfect. So I think it was good, an opportunity to learn English.
“3 to 4.30 was again engineering meetings and 3.30 to 6, a big 🃏gym session again.
“I didn’t enjoy last week! But it is what it is. The eng🤪ineering meeting especially makes for a really good understanding of the car. And that was really good preparation for this week.
“It’s more time in the gym than I am used to, so hopefully by the end of the year I won’t be a body-bu🌳ilder!”
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