Tsunoda confirmed Crimson Bull have set out “a pair” of targets if he’s to be thought of for a promotion, and “it’s fairly clear the issues I’ve to enhance”, however then acknowledged that even when these are achieved, “I don’t know if they are going to determine to place me in [the car]”.
Requested particularly if he feels that he already deserves to be racing for Crimson Bull, Tsunoda commented: “I don’t find out about earlier years, however this 12 months, yeah.”
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As for a way Lawson’s return impacts him, after the New Zealander’s spectacular stand-in show in 2023, Tsunoda repeated that he’s centered on his personal driving and making an attempt to assist RB obtain their aforementioned constructors’ championship goal.
“It’s not my first time with staff mates being modified, so it’s not a totally new surroundings or one thing that makes me really feel further stress,” he mentioned. “Strain is all the time there, so I’ll do what I used to be doing beforehand.
“I like driving, I’m having fun with racing, I’m preserving centered, making an attempt to make our automobile higher with the engineers, as an entire staff, working collectively. I like that sort of surroundings and I’m simply having fun with that second.”