Newey, Tsunoda and Helmut Marko
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Christian Horner has cleared up suggestions that Adrian Newey played a role in Yuki Tsunoda missing out on the Red Bull seat for the start of the 2025 F1 season. Tsunoda is set to make his Red Bull de...
From Crash.Net
Liam Lawson said he was surprised at being demoted by the Red Bull team after only two races of the new season but remained determined to make his mark in Formula One with the junior Racing Bulls tea...
From Reuters
Lawson later said he was “surprised” by the demotion as the early move to shuffle the pack at Red Bull led to questions about the team’s decision-making.
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Christian Horner contradicts the statements made by Helmut Marko about Adrian Newey, saying the Austrian advisor "was not involved" in decisions surrounding drivers. Marko stated that master designer Newey was against the promotion of Yuki Tsunoda and that Red Bull Racing took that into account when passing over the Japanese driver.
That day, Tsunoda—then in his second season with Racing Bulls (formerly AlphaTauri)—was involved in an incident with his then-teammate Pierre Gasly, which resulted in debris that damaged the bodywork of Verstappen’s car.
Red Bull senior advisor Helmut Marko has admitted the team is "missing" its former Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey, amid
Liam Lawson stepped in as Perez's 2025 replacement, but his underwhelming early outings prompted Red Bull to swiftly replace him with Yuki Tsunoda. "Surprisingly, he (Marko) didn't call me yet," the compact Japanese driver noted at Suzuka. "Very unusual.
Helmut Marko has done a lot of talking in the last week. Red Bull’s octogenarian motorsport adviser has been busy doing the rounds, on the radio and in the papers, defending the team’s decision to jettison Liam Lawson after just two races and bring in Yuki Tsunoda.