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Newey objected to Red Bull signing Tsunoda – Marko

Apr.2 Yuki Tsunoda might already have been a Red Bull Racing driver if not for Adrian Newey. With Liam Lawson's tenure alongside Max Verstappen painfully short after an abysmal first two races of 2025, the team is heading into the Japanese GP with home-town hero Tsunoda at the wheel. It's already well known that quadruple world champion Verstappen disagreed with the decision to oust Lawson. 'He disagreed because he kept saying the car was just so difficult to drive,' team advisor Dr Helmut Marko told Kleine Zeitung newspaper. 'That's his opinion, and that's a good thing. 'But you can't become world champion as a one-man team.' Marko now admits promoting Lawson ahead of Tsunoda was a...
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