{"id":324089,"date":"2025-12-04T04:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324089\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T04:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:14:12","slug":"tsunoda-told-to-be-grateful-for-his-f1-career-after-red-bull-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324089\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunoda told to be grateful for his F1 career after Red Bull announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Villeneuve has urged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/yuki-tsunoda\" title=\"Yuki Tsunoda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yuki Tsunoda<\/a> to be grateful for the career he has enjoyed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a>, following the recent driver reshuffle announced by <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>.\u201cTsunoda should be happy and thankful that he\u2019s had such a long and fruitful career.\u201d- Jacques Villeneuve\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 1997 World Champion, speaking in an interview with a gambling site, stated how the decision by Red Bull Racing was largely anticipated by many, including Tsunoda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all knew that months ago. It\u2019s not an announcement. [Liam] Lawson was the last question mark; they were just waiting,\u201d he began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTsunoda knew it as well; you could see it in his demeanour. Even Honda wasn\u2019t really super positive about it; you could tell the message had already been passed,\u201d Villeneuve added.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/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 in the Red Bull garage &#8211; Photo: RacePictures<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old, however, stressed the need for the Japanese driver to be proud of the career he has had so far in Formula 1. Villeneuve also concluded by stating that Tsunoda could still consider racing in other series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTsunoda should be happy and thankful that he\u2019s had such a long and fruitful career in the first place. He got his chance, and it didn\u2019t work out. But he has made a big name for himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe still has a long future in racing, and he will continue to earn a lot of money racing. He may go back to race in Japan. He is a star there now, and normally that lasts forever. So he has made his name; he is fine,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/breaking-news\/official-tsunoda-without-a-seat-as-lawson-confirmed-to-stay-at-racing-bulls-for-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Red Bull Racing announced Tsunoda would be replaced by Isack Hadjar<\/a> for the 2026 season, with the Japanese driver continuing with the team in the role of a reserve driver.Mekies issues Abu Dhabi plea to TsunodaEarlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/mekies-issues-mega-important-tsunoda-plea-to-help-vestappen-in-abu-dhabi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Red Bull Racing boss Laurent Mekies issued a plea to Tsunoda ahead of the final race of the 2025 season<\/a>.The team principal emphasised the need for the 25-year-old to qualify high up the grid as the team aims to secure a fifth Drivers\u2019 Championship for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/max-verstappen\" title=\"Max Verstappen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a>.Enjoy GPblog\u2019s paddock update here!<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned with all of the action as the title decider in Abu Dhabi takes centre stage. Follow GPblog\u2019s paddock update never to miss a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe and follow our channels on Spotify and YouTube to never miss a scoop as the action from the Yas Marina circuit unravels.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the latest edition of our paddock update here \ud83d\udc47<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacques Villeneuve has urged Yuki Tsunoda to be grateful for the career he has enjoyed in Formula 1,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,28673,576,577,3028,3027,1885,2190,82,3029],"class_list":{"0":"post-324089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-f1-news","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-isack-hadjar","15":"tag-liam-lawson","16":"tag-max-verstappen","17":"tag-red-bull-racing","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-yuki-tsunoda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}