According to motorsport consultant Marko
Driver exchange at Red Bull angered world champion Verstappen
29.03.2025 – 3:29 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Driving at Red Bull in addition to Max Verstappen is a challenge. Not all drivers pass this test according to the racing team – that annoys the world champion.
Red Bull’s motorsport consultant Helmut Marko has now confirmed what fans had already suspected in an interview with “Formel1.de”: World champion Max Verstappen has disturbed the teammate change. During the week, Red Bull Racing announced that Liam Lawason will no longer be used in the premier class of motorsport and that Yuki Tsunoda is given its place.
Verstappen marked a post by the former driver Giedo van der Garde, who drove for Caterham in Formula 1 in 2013, with “I like”. The article criticized Red Bull Scharf (to what extent, read here). Marko confirmed that Verstappen had not agreed with the pilot’s exchange. “He expressed that,” said Marko about the Dutch.
Among other things, Verstappen argued that the Red Bull Bolide was currently particularly difficult to drive-a challenge that Lawson also felt in his view. Marko said that he had replied that he had to have two cars in the top 10 to win the title.
Tsunoda takes over the tax of the Red Bull. Lawson returned to the sister team Racing Bulls for the first time at the home race in Japan. Such rochages at Red Bull are part of the strategy, but another change this year is not planned, according to Marko. “Yuki Tsunoda will end the season,” he said – a throw -out does not threaten him even with weaker performance.
The 24-year-old tsunoda has been driving for the smaller Red Bull team since 2021 and had been hoping for the promotion for some time. Marko said Tsunoda repeatedly emphasized that he was the right one for the place and that the transport “expected” accordingly.
However, the Japanese is denied detailed preparation for the RB21. After all, after the race in Shanghai, he completed two sessions in the simulator, which according to Marko were “very good”.