heir of the poltrona who once left Sebastian Vettel, four consecutive crowns like him, before the German decided to change airs to go to Ferrari (2015), in an adventure that lasted six years and that did not comply with the projections made by the two parts .. first because of the turbulence that shake the entire structure last year,; And in this exercise that has just begun by the laziness of a car that is no longer as sharp as the one that most, we will have to see if for the weigh of Adrian Newey, or for more structural issues. Red Bull, like the rest of the paddockhe has convinced McLaren is not only the fashion team, but also the reference as indicated by time screens. And so Milton Keynes (Great Britain) has noticed, which is no longer enough with Verstappen to fix his peephole in the title. Neither in the pilots, nor in the builders.
In Suzuka, where this Sunday (7.00, Dazn) is celebrated the third stop of the calendar, Red Bull made it clear that it no longer circulates in its comfort zone, running one of those maneuvers that the scriptwriters of Drive to Survivethe series that has burst the popularity of the championship; And how bad it falls on the grill, Verstappen included. , his second training, while Yuki Tsunoda followed the opposite path. The aggressiveness of the operation, which already begins to be common in the only company that has two workshops, still leaves more doubts after the timed in Suzuka, in which Lawson (14th) surpassed Tsunoda (15º), for more than any of them could get into the third tie (Q3). The pole what Mad Max It was invented this Saturday in Japan only reinforce his figure, while making it clear that the problem is not one of the pilots, but of the car. Carlos Sainz will start the 12th and Fernando Alonso, the 13th.
With this chair game, Red Bull has achieved something difficult to get: to put the two runners, especially Japanese, who will go behind his partner for the first time in front of his fans. Tsunoda has risen to a train running. A train that is not at all right as Verstappen has tired of repeating from the premiere of the World Cup, in Australia. For this huge challenge, the Japanese has immersed itself in the simulator, although its contact with the real version of RB21 has nothing to do with the video game. In the first free essay, Tsunoda finished the sixth, just a tenth of the tetraMpeon. In the second, on the other hand, he cleared up to the 18th place, two seconds slower than his workshop neighbor (eighth), although the four neutralizations that accumulated invite to take the table with tweezers. In the training prior to the timed, Tsunoda finished the ninth, before the cold water vase that would place him in the eighth row with views to Sunday.
“I just have to gain more confidence. The RB21 is a bit different from the simulator; that is what I noticed. There is a lot of work to do,” Tsunoda granted, whom Verstappen’s exhibition still puts under more pressure. This Saturday, on the other hand, is the fourth pole consecutive Hasselt’s boy in Suzuka, and the first one awarded from which he signed last year in Austria. Since then ten months have passed, in which the energy car has experienced a braking that only the best pilot of the moment has been able to relativize.
