Ricciardo and Tsunoda: the situation at RB
Yuki Tsunoda is preparing to compete in his home GP motivated by the 7th place obtained almost two weeks ago in Melbourne. In Australia, the Japanese managed to score his first points of the season, unlike his Racing Bulls teammate Daniel Ricciardo, 12th in front of his compatriot crowd and once again outside the top-10, as in the previous two world championship events.
The differences
A clear gap in the Faenza team and also recognized by a world champion like Damon Hill, who has already indicated some expectations on what may happen over the Suzuka weekend in the F1 Nation podcast. This was just one of the topics touched on by the Briton, who also focused on the two Racing Bulls drivers: “It's a bit sad to interpret this difference as Ricciardo's fault – has explained – Tsunoda is simply driving brilliantly! I think he's improved by leaps and bounds.”
What stops Ricciardo?
Going into more detail, the 1996 world champion focused in particular on a specific reason that would hinder Ricciardo, and which had already been seen in the Australian's career: “Maybe he's a little too fussy about his car – he continued – young drivers don't ask questions, just look at Bearman. They have only one option: they just drive. Some drivers have a certain style and they need a specific structure of the car, but it is not always possible to obtain it. Ricciardo never felt at ease even in McLaren, where he was always looking for the right set-up, and the same thing is happening now in RB. You can only do this a limited number of times.”
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