“The team quickly loses patience”
Schumacher switches himself into the driver debate at Red Bull
03.07.2025 – 9:49 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
After the debacle at home game, it gets restless at Red Bull. A driver debate has also flared up.
For Red Bull, the season is well on the way to becoming a disaster. At the last race in Spielberg in Austria, nothing went together – and the Max Verstappen team is no longer assuming that the World Cup can still be saved.
The double victory for McLaren with Lando Norris ahead of Oscar Piatri further increased displacement behind in the World Cup. He now lacks 61 points on the leading Piatri. Red Bull is hardly competitive even in the design classification. This is mainly due to the fact that Yuki Tsunoda remains far behind Verstappen in the second car. In Spielberg the Japanese was 16th place. Tsunoda had only taken over the cockpit from the previously disappointing Liam Lawson during the course of the season.
Now ex-driver and TV expert Ralf Schumacher spoke up. In the “Backstage pit lane” podcast, he said: “He is very, very far away from Verstappen. To be honest and briefly summarized: If he doesn’t get it under control, he is probably already outside at Red Bull.”
Schumacher continues: “But I do not hope that you will put Isack Hadjar right next to Verstappen and burn it there, that would be a big mistake. The boy also has great potential. In my view, the career from Tsunoda is over. He is simply too far away and now makes mistakes.”
For Ralf Schumacher, Tsunoda gets “a real pack” at Red Bull. “I would now say that we will no longer see Tsunoda in Formula 1 at the end of the year. The problem is when you are slow and break things, the team quickly loses patience,” said Schumacher.