Tsunoda: Only Red Bull regret is giving up a 'f***ing good' car
Yuki Tsunoda says the only regret he has in moving to Red Bull this season was missing out on a “f***king good car” at Racing Bulls.The Japanese replaced Liam Lawson at Red Bull from this year’s Japanese Grand Prix with high hopes of getting close to team-mate Max Verstappen and bolstering the squad’s constructors’ championship hopes.However, he endured a frustrating campaign where, despite making...
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Yuki Tsunoda says the only regret he has in moving to Red Bull this season was missing out on a “f***king good car” at Racing Bulls.The Japanese replaced Liam Lawson at Red Bull from this year’s Japanese Grand Prix with high hopes of getting close to team-mate Max Verstappen and bolstering the squad’s constructors’ championship hopes.However, he endured a frustrating campaign where, despite making...
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Tsunoda: Only Red Bull regret is giving up 'f***ing good' Racing Bulls
Yuki Tsunoda still feels moving up to Red Bull was the right thing - but regrets missing out on a season in a much improved Racing Bulls car
The FIA brought out the big guns for the final Thursday press conference of 2025 with Formula 1 title protagonists Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri brought together for a media grilling - sat next to the championship trophy they will fight for on Sunday.None could be said to look thrilled to be there. But a ‘get in, get it over with, get out’ philosophy is fairly common among drivers...
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Isack Hadjar will need more than just the right attitude to succeed where his five predecessors failed, in being a fully competitive team-mate and adversary to Max Verstappen within Red Bull's main Formula 1 team.But a keen awareness of the scope of the challenge he will face as a sophomore F1 driver against "the best driver in the world" - and the willingness to publicly express this awareness wi...
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George Russell believes McLaren’s Abu Dhabi team order stance isn’t “acceptable or reasonable”, as Oscar Piastri could be moved aside to help Lando Norris’s title bid.McLaren has resisted favouring one of its drivers despite Max Verstappen’s ever-threatening title challenge, and it won’t explicitly favour Norris for Abu Dhabi despite his 16-point advantage over Piastri, with Verstappen between the...
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A French court has ruled that the FIA presidential vote is clear to go ahead later this month, but judges will hear allegations of potential irregularities surrounding the election system early next year. Candidate Laura Villars had been granted an emergency hearing in the Paris Judicial Court to hear complaints that the process to elect the next president was unfair, as rivals to Mohammed Ben Sul...
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McLaren’s determination that team orders are off the table heading into the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix does not mean there are not scenarios where it could ask one of its drivers to help the other win the title. With both Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris still in contention for the title, McLaren made clear after last weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix that it would leave both drivers free to race for themselves ...
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The Haas Formula 1 team will rebrand slightly for 2026 to mark an expanded partnership with Toyota.Haas and Toyota began a technical partnership in October last year, which kicked off the team working closely with Toyota’s motorsport arm Toyota Gazoo Racing.This deal has facilitated a first ever private testing programme for Haas and is leading to the installation of its first in-house driver-in-l...
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When it comes to sports stars delivering on big occasions, there is no bigger confidence boost than knowing that what you need to produce is exactly what you have done plenty of times before. So when it comes to working out who holds the best hand for this weekend’s Formula 1 title decider in Abu Dhabi, one of the best indicators is what we have already seen this season. If a driver’s hope rests o...
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When Max Verstappen said a week ago that he was only in Formula 1 title contention because of McLaren's "failures", he probably did not expect one of its biggest blunders yet to open the door even more going into the season finale. Yet that is exactly what occurred in Qatar, where McLaren cost Oscar Piastri what would have been a comfortable race win. McLaren driver Lando Norris still holds a 12-p...
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A 2026 Formula 1 rookie and a point-less Formula 2 driver are among the nine FP1-only 'rookies' at this weekend's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.All teams have to run a rookie - a driver with fewer than two grand prix starts - twice in each car during a practice session this year, and Abu Dhabi is a popular choice to do it, given it's the end-of-the-season and FP1 is run in daytime conditions, unrepresentat...
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The 2026 rules overhaul marks arguably the biggest reset in Formula 1 history, with both the chassis and engine regulations changing at the same time.And that means plenty of intrigue about what those challengers will look like in particular.Here's what F1 teams have confirmed about their launch plans so far:Red Bull + Racing Bulls - January 15 (livery only)Red Bull and sister outfit Racing Bulls ...
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It's almost time to decide the 2025 Formula 1 title. But when is the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix?Below you'll find all the times for this weekend's action, at the end of which one of Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri will be crowned champion.Abu Dhabi GP schedule (local time)Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab Emirates, is on Gulf Standard Time and is four hours ahead of GMT (UK...
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We wanted to give you a taster of what you can expect when you sign up to The Race Members' Club by giving you the first five minutes of Ben Anderson responding to your questions about his F1 driver rankings from the Qatar GP!Ben tackles your questions on why the race winner was only third and how he decided who should be in last place in the rankings on a weekend where multiple drivers were poor....
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The decision-making process of Formula 1’s stewards has been back in the spotlight over recent days following the meeting between the drivers and the FIA at the Qatar Grand Prix.The now annual get-together is akin to a workshop in getting car racing’s regulator and competitors on the same page when it comes to the policing and judgement of incidents.However, in running through some of the most hot...
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Beyond all the mental fortitude that helped Liam Lawson gather himself after the shock of his early-season Red Bull demotion, there is one other detail that proved pivotal in putting him on the path to secure his Formula 1 future this week.It came at the Austrian Grand Prix in late June when, just one race after Lando Norris had been helped by a similar tweak to his McLaren, Lawson got his hands o...
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Yuki Tsunoda's Red Bull Formula 1 career will end after just 22 grands prix, having never really recovered from a mistake five races in. Given how much of a disappointment the season has generally been, as Tsunoda has been outscored 360-30 by Max Verstappen in their time as team-mates (so far), it's easy to forget that his start at Red Bull was actually pretty reasonable.He was immediately more co...
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Yuki Tsunoda will not race in Formula 1 next season as Red Bull has chosen to replace him with Isack Hadjar at Red Bull Racing and promote Arvid Lindblad to a Racing Bulls seat.Red Bull's line-ups for 2026 will be Hadjar alongside Max Verstappen at the senior team and then rookie Lindblad joining the retained Liam Lawson at Racing Bulls.It leaves Tsunoda without an F1 seat although he will remain ...
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Red Bull’s made its 2026 Formula 1 line-up decision: Isack Hadjar up to the main team to join Max Verstappen, and Arvid Lindblad fills the Racing Bulls gap alongside Liam Lawson.Which means no space for Yuki Tsunoda - and his dream move into the seat he’s chased throughout his F1 career has backfired so badly that he’s lost his place on the grid altogether, instead settling in as Red Bull's reserv...
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PepsiCo is to return to being a Formula 1 team sponsor next year for the first time since its 7UP brand’s iconic title partnership with Jordan in 1991.The American company has announced a new major deal with Mercedes that revolves around three of its core brands: Gatorade, Sting and Doritos.Together, PepsiCo and Mercedes plan a host of fan activations but also other joint projects including integr...
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