Red Bull test and reserve driver Yuki Tsunoda will return to the cockpit of a Formula 1 car later this month when he takes part in a special demonstration event in America.<\/p>\n
Tsunoda<\/a>, who lost his full-time F1 seat at the end of last season, is set to appear at a show run on the streets of San Francisco \u2013 backed by Red Bull<\/a> partner Ford \u2013 on February 21.<\/p>\n Also on the list of attendees are former F1 driver Scott Speed<\/a>, who will drive a Racing Bulls<\/a> machine around Marina Boulevard, as well as Ford off-road star Mitch Guthrie and freestyle motorcross rider Aaron Colton.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get back behind the wheel of an F1 car, and to do that in [the] RB7 in San Francisco will be amazing,\u201d said Tsunoda, referring to Red Bull\u2019s double title-winning 2011 design.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to getting out there, doing some donuts and making some real F1 noise in front of the crowds.\u201d<\/p>\n Tsunoda will be on standby for both Red Bull and Racing Bulls through the upcoming F1 campaign, should either team require a substitute driver \u2013 as well as providing support off the track.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old Japanese racer started his career with AlphaTauri (now known as Racing Bulls) back in 2021, spending just over four seasons there before earning a promotion to Red Bull.<\/p>\n However, he followed a long list of drivers who struggled to make an impression alongside Max Verstappen and was dropped from the team\u2019s racing line-up for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull test and reserve driver Yuki Tsunoda will return to the cockpit of a Formula 1 car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-471059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471059","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=471059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}