A duo of Method 1 drivers who will share a storage in 2025 have been tipped for “fireworks” as a consequence of their combative personalities.
The newly-rebranded Racing Bulls crew will maintain religion with Yuki Tsunoda, and welcome rookie Isack Hadjar as his new teammate.
Hadjar is a Pink Bull junior driver who acquired the nod after Liam Lawson’s promotion from Racing Bulls into the highest crew.
However the brand new dynamic between Tsunoda and Hadjar might be problematic, it has been claimed.
Racing Bulls issues between teammates?
“I feel we are able to count on a couple of fireworks there,” Natalie Pinkham instructed Sky Sports activities throughout Bahrain testing.
“They’re each feisty.”
David Croft replied: “One has calmed down. I assumed Yuki had a mature method to final season.”
Pinkham: “He had an excellent season.”
Crofty requested: “Is he a bit unfortunate that he didn’t get the Pink Bull drive?
“Pink Bull will suppose he didn’t utterly dominate Daniel Ricciardo, a driver that wasn’t adequate for the Pink Bull crew.
“Due to this fact, ‘we expect there may be extra potential in Lawson’. I think about that’s their pondering.
“However Yuki generally is a actually good mentor to Hadjar, having been via the rookie course of himself. Hadjar is a advantageous driver.”
Pinkham requested: “Does he wish to be a mentor? There’s all the time a tussle at that crew as a result of it’s imagined to be a springboard to the primary crew.”
Crofty stated: “Being that Racing Bulls are the junior crew, is it half and parcel of the skilled drivers’ position to assist their teammate? It’s Yuki’s fifth season so he will be.”
Tsunoda has beforehand been criticised by Pink Bull’s Helmut Marko for swearing and for his hot-headed radio interactions.
Nonetheless, he has mellowed that fiery facet to complete twelfth in final yr’s drivers’ standings.
It wasn’t sufficient to earn a Pink Bull drive, which as an alternative went to his former teammate Lawson.
However such is the red-hot competitors always throughout the Pink Bull camp, a formidable begin to 2025 for Tsunoda might set tongues wagging once more.
