Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko has revealed that Yuki Tsunoda will receive some new parts, if he can navigate the Belgian Grand Prix sprint race without difficulty.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Japanese driver failed to make the final stage of sprint qualifying and will start 12th on the grid at Spa-Francorchamps.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tsunoda did manage to qualify ahead of both Mercedes drivers and Lewis Hamilton, but found himself behind Max Verstappen and both Racing Bulls drivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was the latest frustrating result for the 25-year-old, who will be eager to score his first point in the sprint since the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite the frustration of another early exit across all qualifying formats, Marko was actually not overly disappointed in Tsunoda’s performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He found himself significantly closer to the top 10 than has been the case in recent events, and was much closer to Verstappen in certain sectors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marko outlined Tsunoda’s improvement, but challenged him to deliver more consistent laps.<\/p>\n
“I think he is getting better and better,” Marko said about Tsunoda to Motorsport Magazin.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes he’s really good at it, but he can’t always keep that up consistently yet.”<\/p>\n
In Tsunoda’s defence, Red Bull only fitted its upgrades package to Verstappen’s car. However, should a clean sprint be completed by the #22, Marko has confirmed he will receive some parts.<\/p>\n
“Yuki didn’t have the updates now,” revealed Marko. “But if nothing happens to him in the sprint race, he will also get some new parts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko has revealed that Yuki Tsunoda will receive some new parts, if he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25644,"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-25643","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\/25643","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=25643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}