{"id":497274,"date":"2026-02-22T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497274\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:41:09","slug":"yuki-tsunoda-back-in-a-red-bull-at-special-san-francisco-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497274\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuki Tsunoda back in a Red Bull at special San Francisco demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Yuki Tsunoda might not be on the 2026 grid, but he is still very much involved in the world of F1. The Japanese star has been wowing the crowds in San Francisco at a special Red Bull demo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\"><a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoidHN1bm9kYV9saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mb3JtdWxhMS5jb20vZW4vZHJpdmVycy95dWtpLXRzdW5vZGEiLCJwYXRoVHlwZSI6ImludGVybmFsIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/yuki-tsunoda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tsunoda<\/a> lost his race seat at the end of the 2025 season, having partnered <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoibWF4X3ZlcnN0YXBwZW5fbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL2RyaXZlcnMvbWF4LXZlcnN0YXBwZW4iLCJwYXRoVHlwZSI6ImludGVybmFsIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/max-verstappen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a> for much of the year. But he remains an integral part of the Red Bull family, as their Reserve and Test Driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">As such, he will have been hard at work in the simulator for the team as they prepare for the 2026 season, but that did not mean there has been no time for some fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Tsunoda got behind the wheel of the RB7, the machine that carried <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoic2ViYXN0aWFuX3ZldHRlbF9saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mb3JtdWxhMS5jb20vZW4vaW5mb3JtYXRpb24vZHJpdmVycy1oYWxsLW9mLWZhbWUtc2ViYXN0aWFuLXZldHRlbC5HQnk2dlBreEtPS1VWODlRT2haZTUiLCJwYXRoVHlwZSI6ImludGVybmFsIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/information\/drivers-hall-of-fame-sebastian-vettel.GBy6vPkxKOKUV89QOhZe5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Vettel<\/a> to the title back in 2011, for some very special laps of Marina Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The event was part of a celebration of the Red Bull Ford partnership, with the Milton Keynes-based team running their own Red Bull Ford Powertrains engines this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Click on the gallery above to see all the action from San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuki Tsunoda might not be on the 2026 grid, but he is still very much involved in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-497274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497274","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=497274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}