F1 | AlphaTauri, Tsunoda: “Moving to Italy was a good thing”

He literally bewitched Helmut Marko with his fast and aggressive driving in F2, earning promotion to the top category and making his debut in AlphaTauri. Yuki Tsunoda, a very young boy born in 2000, was presented by the Red Bull leaders as a rising star and yet after a remarkable debut in Bahrain the Japanese got a little lost, between excesses on the track and in the pits and accidents.

Precisely for this reason, Red Bull decided to let him live in Faenza, to allow him to live in close contact with the team and the engineers, in order to accelerate his learning path in Formula 1. A choice that turned out to be the right one, because the change of residence from the United Kingdom to Italy has allowed Tsunoda to work better and change his approach to racing, and it is no coincidence that in the last seven events four placings in the points have been achieved, with the excellent sixth place in the GP of Hungary, despite an error in qualifying.

“I believe that moving to Faenza near the stables was a good decision. I think in this period I have improved the general approach to race weekends, the way I have improved session after session - Tsunoda's words to Autosport - Now I spend a lot of time with the engineers, I'm trying to spend more time thinking about racing, with fewer distractions. Now I talk a lot with the engineers, we work together, we analyze the previous race, I arrive at Friday calmer. In England I trained, but I spent a lot of time in front of the screen playing, now I'm more focused. So we also found a couple of solutions to improve performance on the track, I needed to have more discipline."