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Tsunoda: Red Bull F1 would be ‘weird’ to pick Lawson over me (www.motorsportweek.com)

submitted 4 months ago by GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to c/formula1@lemmy.world

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Yuki Tsunoda has asserted that it would be a “weird” situation should Red Bull choose to promote reserve driver Liam Lawson to the parent Formula 1 team over him.

Red Bull appeared to have finalised its driver line-up heading into the coming seasons as it announced last month that Sergio Perez has penned a multi-term renewal.

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[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and the only time max was asked to swap for perez to go ahead was when max was racing with a damaged car

Besides when he drove across the line while GP had a heart attack telling him to let Checo through lol. It is what it is, I'm just saying there is always conflict no matter what.

It's in every team's interest to pursue the fastest drivers, imo.

they did not want to create a toxic atmosphere

Not for whoever was number one, but fuck number two and how they might feel about it. Valtteri was pretty candid about how damaging it was to be in that role, and seemed pretty happy to be away from it when he signed with Alfa Romeo.

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

Valtteri was pretty candid about how damaging it was to be in that role, and seemed pretty happy to be away from it when he signed with Alfa Romeo.

Yeah ethically having a designated number two is not a good thing. The number two is mentally and emotionally affected in a major way but F1 is a cutthroat sport where the team is only looking for what's best for it