Tsunoda: I deserve the right to be Max’s partner

Yuki Tsunoda said on Wednesday in Las Vegas that he deserves the right to become Max Verstappen’s teammate and does not understand why Red Bull Racing has not yet invited him…

Yuki Tsunoda: “At the border they wouldn’t let me in, they held me for two or three hours and almost sent me home, even though my passport shows that I’m constantly moving from country to country and I have a valid passport visa, and not so long ago I performed at another American circuit, in Austin.

There were talks about my possible promotion even when Daniel Ricciardo was my teammate, then Liam Lawson came and they started talking about him. To be honest, this is a common story within this team and within the Red Bull family. I am 100% sure that I deserve the right to become Max’s partner. I have always said this and my position has not changed. The rest depends on the team.

At some point I started to get impatient, probably before the summer holidays. But I knew I had no control over this decision, I just had to accept it and continue with what I was doing. Whoever became my partner, whoever was sent to defeat me, I simply destroyed them, and I will continue to act in the same way.

Honda helped me from a young age. I’m sure they are still promoting my candidacy, the problem is only with Red Bull and for some reason it is not being resolved. I didn’t think about it anymore, it just didn’t make sense.”