Yeah, not really surprised. The writing has been on the wall, but I was still hoping for Tsunoda to get the seat because he’s put in the effort. RB has been shaping him as a driver for 4 years and then instead of promoting him to the main team they essentially pick a reserve driver over him. How shitty is that? It might be understandable if he was better than Yuki, but Yuki is the better driver. And the spat between Perez and Lawson showed that Lawson is also hot headed like Tsunoda. I know Tsunoda had his huge tirade at the start of the year but Ricciardo seemed to set him straight and he has clearly cooled himself off since then.
Anyway, it’s a nice finishing touch to the “stupid decisions RBR has made this year” list.
Yeah, not really surprised. The writing has been on the wall, but I was still hoping for Tsunoda to get the seat because he’s put in the effort. RB has been shaping him as a driver for 4 years and then instead of promoting him to the main team they essentially pick a reserve driver over him. How shitty is that? It might be understandable if he was better than Yuki, but Yuki is the better driver. And the spat between Perez and Lawson showed that Lawson is also hot headed like Tsunoda. I know Tsunoda had his huge tirade at the start of the year but Ricciardo seemed to set him straight and he has clearly cooled himself off since then.
Anyway, it’s a nice finishing touch to the “stupid decisions RBR has made this year” list.
Completely agree. I imagine Yuki has to look around for other teams for next year at this point
Lawson also had problems with Fernando and has been quite out spoken about his own team. I’m not sure he will reign that in the big chair next season.
To be fair Alonso can be quite petty he held a grudge against Lewis for over a decade.