{"id":345960,"date":"2025-12-13T19:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/345960\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:25:20","slug":"tsunoda-hints-at-potential-return-after-losing-red-bull-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/345960\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunoda hints at potential return after losing Red Bull seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/yuki-tsunoda\" title=\"Yuki Tsunoda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yuki Tsunoda<\/a> is optimistic about a possible return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> after being replaced at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/red-bull-racing\" title=\"Red Bull Racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull Racing<\/a> ahead of the 2026 season.\u201cThere\u2019s a chance that my next year won\u2019t be limited to simulator and reserve driver work.&#8221;- Yuki Tsunoda<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old, who made the switch from the Racing Bulls team to Red Bull Racing ahead of his home Grand Prix in Japan earlier in 2025, saw his campaign unfold in a challenging manner.<\/p>\n<p>Tsunoda\u2019s struggles culminated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/breaking-news\/official-red-bull-confirm-tsunoda-will-lose-f1-seat-for-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Red Bull outfit announcing he would no longer race with the team in 2026,<\/a> and would only continue as the team\u2019s reserve driver.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking in an interview with DAZN Japan, Tsunoda appeared confident about a quick return to the Formula 1 grid.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/yuki-tsunoda-692dc75107112.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"yuki-tsunoda-red-bull-jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yuki Tsunoda at the Red Bull garage &#8211; Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a chance that my next year won\u2019t be limited to simulator and reserve driver work. I\u2019ve heard about a few possible scenarios,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Further stressing his point, he continued: \u201cI\u2019m only 25, and I have my whole life ahead of me. This is just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tsunoda will see French driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/isack-hadjar\" title=\"Isack Hadjar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isack Hadjar<\/a> take his spot as teammate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/max-verstappen\" title=\"Max Verstappen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a> ahead of the regulation changes for 2026.Tsunoda urged to be grateful for careerEarlier, 1997 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/tsunoda-told-to-be-grateful-for-his-f1-career-after-red-bull-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacques Villeneuve stressed the need for Tsunoda to remain grateful <\/a>despite his exit from Red Bull Racing.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian stated that driving for the Milton Keynes-based outfit has given Tsunoda leverage to compete for several elite teams, including in other series, if he aims to continue racing actively.<\/p>\n<p>Villeneuve also highlighted the financial rewards the Japanese driver earned from the team as a positive aspect of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Catch up with GPblog\u2019s Latest Paddock Update\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the post-2025 season finale action and reaction continuing, our paddock update is the place to be.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our channels on YouTube and Spotify to stay up to date with all the happenings as they unfold following the final Grand Prix of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the latest episode of our paddock update here \ud83d\udc47<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuki Tsunoda is optimistic about a possible return to Formula 1 after being replaced at Red Bull Racing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,35119,813,816,10114,825,946,85,5077],"class_list":["post-345960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-isack-hadjar","tag-max-verstappen","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports","tag-yuki-tsunoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345960","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=345960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}