Christian Horner has cleared up suggestions that Adrian Newey played a role in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda missing out on the Red Bull seat for the start of the 2025 F1 season.

Tsunoda is set t♑o mak🃏e his Red Bull debut on Sunday at the Japanese Grand Prix.

The 24-year-old was promoted to Red🔯 Bull following Liam Lawson’s torrid two races with the team, forcing Horner to make a brutal change so early in the season.

Even though Tsunoda has been the second-best performing Red B🎶ull driver, behind Verstappen, since the start of 2023, he’s been consistently overlooked.

Daniel Ricciardo was set to replace Sergio Perez ahead of the Dutc⛎h Grand Prix in 2024 before Red Bull decided against it.

Laws🍃on got the call-up over Tsu🌄noda at the end of 2024 despite failing to out-qualify him.

One reason for that, accordi𝐆ඣng to Helmut Marko, is Newey.

, Marko said: “For a long time, Yuki had the image of not performing consistently and making silly mistakes here and there. That’s what happened last year in Mexico, where the decisive phase for us began.

“With Lawson, it was the exact opposite at first: he came on and delivered straight away, no matter how great the pressure was. In retrospect,ꦺ however, it wasn’t the right decision.

“In general, however, a lot can be traced back to a single incide💖nt. At Silverstone, Tsunoda once drove into Pierre Gasly’s car, and parts of the cars on the track damaged the underbody of Verstappen’s car, which cost him the race. Adrian Newey was furious at the time.

“From that point on, Yuki was a red rag to him. But now Newey is gone, and Yuki has workedꦅ har﷽d on himself.”

Adrian Newey had “no input”

Newey s🎃tepped away from Red Bull after the Miami Grand Prix.

The F1 design guru decided to take a break from ♎F1 before taking up a fresh challenge.

Newey is spearheading Aston Martin’﷽s F1 project, starting work in early March.

Speaking t﷽o Sky Sports after FP1 at Suzuka, Horner was asked about Marko’s claim.

“Adrian wasn’t involved in drivers certainly for th🍌is year,” Horner re🗹plied.

“I think from the comments I saw that Helmut was referring to an inciden🧸t back in 202𓄧2 at Silverstone. Adrian had no input into our driver selection for this year.”