Listen to this article Tsunoda was brought into Red Bull’s second team amid plenty of expectation but struggled to adapt to F1 in the first half of 2021 which was marred by plenty of mistakes. But following a summer move to Italy to be closer to the team’s Faenza base, Tsunoda gradually started improving, culminating in a fourth place at Abu Dhabi, his best result so far. That positive trend continued in 2022’s first four grands prix, in which the Japanese performed closer to the level of his more experienced teammate Pierre Gasly. In the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Tsunoda took his second points haul of the season with a tidy seventh place. His performance drew praise from team boss Franz Tost, who said: “Yuki made a big step forward in comparison to last year, but also looking to this year, I must say that he is really developing himself and his performance in a really good way.” Yuki Tsunoda, AlphaTauri AT03 Photo by: Davide Cavazza Tsunoda acknowledg …