Did Red Bull already talk to Tsunoda about succeeding Sergio Perez?

Tsunoda is now in his fourth season in Formula 1. For a longer time, it seemed there was little prospect of a move to Red Bull Racing for him: not so long back, Perez extended his contract with the team. Due to performance clauses in this contract, it is suddenly all but certain that the Mexican will be allowed to stay, potentially opening doors for other drivers within the Red Bull family.

Tsunoda did not yet speak seriously to Horner about Perez seat

Tsunoda did speak to Red Bull team principal Christian Horner in recent weeks: "Not like a clear one. General casual chat like this hospitality and it all happens like that. I guess the things but also they're not really rushing it. Checo was also announced two races or a race before…Checo might perform really well and if the drivers performing well, they don't have reason to change the drivers so, I don't know. For sure it's a good thing for Checo because they don't want to create any pressure working with him and that's definitely fair and also for myself, in the end, they wanted me to focus on what I'm doing right now. We don't have serious conversations."

Tsunoda: 'Next two races important'

There are still two races to go until the summer break. Tsunoda thinks these races could still be important: "If the rumours are true, yes. But to be honest, like I said, I don't know any exact situation around, to be honest, it's probably the same as you guys. Less information than you guys probably. In the end, every race is very important. Like myself, the contract is not really fixed, for long years and in the end, same things as usual to be honest. In that in a sense yes."

So Tsunoda does not feel any extra pressure so far for the upcoming races, he declared. "So far I don't feel much additional pressure anything. Those things will probably naturally come with different situations. There are a lot more worse pressures than probably now. Probably now it's good pressure rather than bad pressure. Last three years not knowing what you're going to do next year, that's worse. In the end, I'm very focused on the current Visa Cash App team and see how it goes."