When Yuki Tsunoda takes to the track as a Red Bull F1 driver for the first time, he will do so in a very different-looking car to usual

Sergio Pérez's father Antonio Pérez Garibay has made a bombshell accusation against Red Bull, hinting at favoritism.

Yuki Tsunoda carried a nation’s hopes and a ferociously competitive team’s expectations during his first on-track experience of the Red Bull RB21 at Suzuka. It wasn’t as bad as the FP2 times made it l

Yuki Tsunoda set a strong benchmark to go 6th fastest in FP1 for his Red Bull debut. Going just a tenth behind Verstappen on the same run plan is a promising start with his new team.

Yuki Tsunoda finally has his promotion at Red Bull. He was elevated last week and Liam Lawson was demoted to Red Bull’s second team — Racing Bulls — after failing to score points in the season’s first two races.

Red Bull new recruit Yuki Tsunoda has been told to get as close to his world champion teammate Max Verstappen as possible at the Japanese Grand Prix this weekend and he certainly delivered in the first practice session on Friday.

— Saturday: Third practice and qualifying. — Sunday: The Japanese Grand Prix.

Tsunoda was promoted to Red Bull’s senior team a week ago in place of Liam Lawson. The two drivers were teammates at RB’s junior F1 team Racing Bulls for the final six races of the 2024 season. After Red Bull Racing moved on from Sergio Perez at the end of the season, Lawson got the call to jump up instead of Tsunoda.

While all the hype ahead of Formula 1's Japanese Grand Prix was on Red Bull, it was its sister team Racing Bulls that gr