Yuki Tsunoda to get Purple Bull enhance with Silverstone F1 check

Purple Bull driver Yuki Tsunoda is ready to get a non-public check at Silverstone subsequent week with the hopes of dashing up his integration into the System 1 squad. Off the again of an action-packed triple-header, the 24-year-old will drive Purple Bull’s 2023 RB19 on the British Grand Prix venue.

Tsunoda made his Purple Bull debut on the Japanese Grand Prix earlier this month, changing Liam Lawson. Again-to-back weekends in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia adopted, leaving the Japanese driver with little time to digest the harder RB21, which is affected by extreme steadiness points.

Motorsport.com understands Tsunoda’s testing of a earlier automobile session (TPC), which is preceded by a simulator day, was pre-arranged when he signed for the squad.

As per the rules, this sort of check have to be performed with equipment that’s at the least two seasons previous. This might be useful for Tsunoda as he will get to check the automobile that Purple Bull received 21 out of twenty-two grands prix with over the 2023 season, within the fingers of world champion Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.

As Tsunoda continues to familiarize yourself with the Purple Bull’s driving fashion and the crew’s set-up strategies, he now will get to pattern what a a lot better automobile seems like.

The TPC check is nothing out of the odd, nonetheless, as Tsunoda’s predecessor Lawson additionally obtained a day in the identical automobile on the Spanish circuit of Jerez in February in preparation for his 2025 marketing campaign.

Tsunoda scored his first factors for Purple Bull with ninth place ultimately weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, however admitted he nonetheless needed to get used to how the RB21 likes to be pushed.

“It comes all the way down to the expertise actually, this automobile behaves fairly in another way at every monitor so it’s onerous to foretell,” Tsunoda stated forward of the Jeddah weekend. “I’m not absolutely stress-free driving this automobile – I’m nonetheless speeding and never absolutely in management but.”

Tsunoda crashed his automobile in FP2 after clipping the within wall of Jeddah’s closing nook, however made it again out in third follow after the mandatory repairs. 

Images from Saudi Arabian GP – Observe & Qualifying