“I didn’t know what I was doing” in F1 debut year

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…