Alan Permane believes that Yuki Tsunoda\u2019s skills as a driver \u2013 including his feedback and work outside of the car as well as in it \u2013 are \u201creally in line with the top drivers\u201d, something that the team boss admits came as a \u201cnice surprise\u201d when he first worked with Tsunoda.<\/p>\n
Since joining Racing Bulls<\/a> as Racing Director at the start of 2024 \u2013 before being promoted to Team Principal this July \u2013 Permane<\/a> has now worked with three of the four drivers currently racing for the two Red Bull teams, with Liam Lawson<\/a> returning to the sister squad in a swap with Tsunoda<\/a> earlier in the season where he now partners Isack Hadjar<\/a>.<\/p>\n As such, when quizzed during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend on what stood out about Tsunoda during the Japanese driver\u2019s time at Racing Bulls, Permane highlighted numerous qualities that the 25-year-old displayed.<\/p>\n \u201cHis speed [stands out], for one thing,\u201d said Permane.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t know Yuki at all before I started with the team in \u201924, and I was immediately impressed by him \u2013 by his pace, by how he can handle the tyres, his Qualifying pace, how he could get on top of the tyres as quickly as he did to extract the most out of the car in Qualifying.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was the very first thing that surprised me. And honestly, his feedback, and the way he is in the car, the way he drives, the way he is out of the car, are really in line with the top drivers.<\/p>\n \u201cHe’s a great driver. And honestly, that was a little bit of a \u2013 let\u2019s say it was a surprise. I guess I hadn\u2019t thought about it, but it was a nice surprise when I got to start working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n For now, the drivers that Permane is most focused on are Hadjar and Lawson as the pair look to maximise Racing Bulls\u2019 performance during the final seven Grands Prix of the campaign, while Tsunoda will be hoping to extend a decent run of form that saw him claim a season-best P6 last time out in Baku<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Permane believes that Yuki Tsunoda\u2019s skills as a driver \u2013 including his feedback and work outside of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-168275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}