Tsunoda "doesn't feel any pressure" to impress Red Bull
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Yuki Tsunoda has secured a super license in this weekend's first F2 race. With this, the switch to AlphaTauri next year also seems to be more likely. Honda's junior is high on the list and Red Bull Racing are also keen to promote him to AlphaTauri. According to Masashi Yamamoto, director of Honda F1, Tsunoda has done everything he had to do.
"Tsunoda has become increasingly aware of how to behave in the opening phase and sometimes that works and sometimes it does not. Now he did that well and was able to perform well in the opening phase right away," Yamamoto explains to AS.com. In the first weekend Tsunoda still had some problems, due to a spin in qualifying which forced him to start at the back. On the shorter layout those problems were no longer present.
Contact with Marko
"He said he doesn't feel any pressure. After this race I really want to praise him because he has let go of everything else and won the race," Yamamoto refers to the problems Tsunoda had in the first weekend. Honda's director has also been in contact with Helmut Marko after the F2 race.
"He said he sees Tsunoda growing all the time, I was happy to hear that too." Marko was also the first to congratulate Tsunoda after the Feature Race in the F2 and it seems that the Austrian would also like to see Tsunoda at AlphaTauri next year. "We had the desire to achieve a good result and to make sure there was progress," Yamamoto concludes.