Christian Horner has cleared up suggestions that Adrian Newey played a role in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda missing out on the Red Bull seat for the start of the 2025 F1 season.

Tsunoda is set to make his Red Bull debut on Su🃏nday at the Japanese Grand Prix.

The 24-year-old was pro🌟moted to Red Bull following Liam Lawson’s torrid two races with the team, forcing Horner to make a brutal change so early in the season.

Even though Tsunoda has been the second-best perfꩵorming Red Bull driver, behind Verstappen, since the start of 2023, he’s been consistently overlooked.

Daniel Ricciardo was set to replace Sergio Perez ahead♕ of the Dutch Grand Prix i🌃n 2024 before Red Bull decided against it.

Lawson got t💧he call-up over Tsunoda at the end of 2024 despite failing to out-qualifyꩵ him.

One reason for that, according to Helmut M♋arko, is Newey.

, Marko said: “For a long time, Yuki had the image of not performing consistently and making silly mistakes here and there. That’s what happened last year in Mexico, where the decisive phase for us began.

“With Lawson, it was the exact opposite at first: he came on and delivered straight away, no matter how great the pr🍃essure was. In retrospect, however, it wasn’t the rigꦜht decision.

“In general, however, a lot can be traced back t🦩o a si🌟ngle incident. At Silverstone, Tsunoda once drove into Pierre Gasly’s car, and parts of the cars on the track damaged the underbody of Verstappen’s car, which cost him the race. Adrian Newey was furious at the time.

“From that ꦜpoint on, Yuki was a red rag to him. But now ꦛNewey is gone, and Yuki has worked hard on himself.”

Adrian Newey had “no input”

Newey stepped away from 🌜Red Bull after the Miami Grand Prix.

The F1 design guru decided to take a break f𝓰rom F1 be൩fore taking up a fresh challenge.

Newey is spearheading Aston Martin’s F1 project, starting wo🦩rk in early March.

Speaking to Sky Sports after𝐆 FP1 at Suzu🌱ka, Horner was asked about Marko’s claim.

“Adria🌟n♎ wasn’t involved in drivers certainly for this year,” Horner replied.

“I think from the comments I saw that Helmut was referring to an incident back iไn 2022 at Silverstone. Adrian had no input into our driver selection for this year.”