Yuki Tsunoda has revealed to receiving a message of support from axed Red Bull boss Christian Horner ahead of this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The event will mark the first time in Red Bull’s history that Horner will not be in charge of the team during a race weekend.<\/p>\n
Just days after the British Grand Prix, Red Bull announced that Horner had departed the organisation, ending his 20-year stint as team principal.<\/p>\n
Horner took time to message his former driver on the eve of round 13 of the F1 campaign to encourage Tsunoda following his struggle for results alongside Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI appreciate how Christian supported me at various races,\u201d Tsunoda told the media, including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got a message from him yesterday. [He said] \u2018Show what you can do’.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if he was surprised by Horner’s exit, Tsunoda stated: \u201cDefinitely, yes, surprising for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s such a big, big change. The last 20 years, since Red Bull signed with Christian, they always worked with Christian.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a big change for the team. I got information from Helmut on that day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s pretty much all I can say on that. I\u2019m just focused on driving.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Racing Bulls team boss Laurent Mekies has replaced Horner in the leading Red Bull role.<\/p>\n
After working with Mekies throughout 2024 and the early stages of the current season, Tsunoda has endorsed the appointment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure he can bring something that he found in Racing Bulls, and he brings the positives that he\u2019s done in the last two years,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe under a third perspective, it\u2019s good that a new person came in and saw a new perspective, new angles.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s see how he\u2019s going to approach it. But also, we have a lot of good people already. They know what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuki Tsunoda has revealed to receiving a message of support from axed Red Bull boss Christian Horner ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-20680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}