Since making the decision to replace Liam Lawson with Yuki Tsunoda, Red Bull have scrambled to try and control the narrative. For obvious reasons, the Austrian team’s driver management is being called into question.

That is the claim put forward by Red Bull senior advisor Helmut Marko, who recalled how Tsunoda cost Verstappen victory at the Mexican Grand Prix and left Newey “furious”. Yuk

Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko has suggested that former technical chief Adrian Newey was part of the reason that Yuki Tsunoda had been overlooked for promotion from the sister Racing Bulls team.