An unfair perception or a genuine concern? What makes Red Bull skeptical about Tsunoda

“Maybe pole position and podiums in every race….whatever.” 

That was Yuki Tsunoda’s response to a question this writer posed to him a couple of weeks ago as we discussed what he felt was really needed to prove just how good he is. 

Despite the statistics that have shown him outqualify his most recent team-mates (8-2 versus Nyck de Vries, 16-9 versus Daniel Ricciardo and 10-1 versus Liam Lawson), and out-score them (2-0 de Vries, 37-18 Ricciardo and 8-6 Lawson), he knows the raw numbers have never been what people are judging him on.