Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has explained why the team opted against promoting 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda, despite him being “faster” than 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson.

Lawson got the nod over Tsunoda to replace the axed168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Sergio Perez for 2025, with the 22-year-old New Zealander becoming 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen’s fifth teammate 𓆉since he joined Red Bull in 2016.

Perez was th💦e latest casualty of Red Bull’s ruthless regime, with the Mexican ditched after his abysmal performances last season and being deemed not to be at an acceptable level to drive the second car.

Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon faced similar fates before Perez at Red Bull, who have now turned to Lawson, who has made just 11 grand🐠 prix appearances spread over two seasons.

Lawson’s promotion comes despite him not convincingly outperform🍌ing Racing Bulls teammate Tsunoda, who was faster than Lawson in the six regular qu🌃alifying sessions they contested at the end of 2024.

‘Significant emotions challenges’ for Tsunoda

Mꩵarko has moved to outline why Red Bull opted to pick Lawson over Tsunoda.

“In terms of speed, Tsunoda is definitely the faster of th🌟e two at the moment, but he lacks the necessary consistency and continue🐽s to make mistakes,” Marko told .

Marko also pointed to Tsunoda’s emotional outbursts over team radio as being a factor behind Red B🎃ull’s decision not to promote the Japanese driver.

"His outbursts of anger have improved considerably but remain an issue. He loses control,” t🅷he 81-year-old Au♐strian explained.

Marko added that going up 𝄹against Verstappen would pose Tsunoda 🦄“significant emotional challenges”.

“We believe it would cause significant emotional challenges for Tsunoda if he realised alongside Max that he couldn’t beat him, or perhaps even get close to him, and that things weren’t going as he had imagined,” he saiꦦd.

And Marko described✅ Lawson as “the mentally strongest of our juniors,” despite his lac♊k of experience.

“He has the mental fortitude to race alongside Verstappen and accept that he won’t be able to challenge the Duඣtchman,” Marko concluded.

Tsunoda will instead spend a fifth season at Red Bul🐬l’s secon🅠d team.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has hinted at the possibili♛ty of Tsunoda being released when his contract expires at the end of 2025.

"We're acutely aware that if𝐆 we're not able to provide an opportunity for Yuki [at Red Bull] in all honesty this year, does it [keeping him on] make sense?," Horner admitted.

"You can't have a driver in the support team for five years. You can't always be the bridesmaid.ꦬ You've either got to let them go at that 🙈point or look at something different."