Yuki Tsunoda will keep at Crimson Bull’s second staff for a fifth season in 2025.
The outfit, who modified their identify to RB this yr, stated on Saturday that they’d taken up their contractual choice on the Japanese, who’s a protege of Crimson Bull’s engine accomplice Honda.
Crew principal Laurent Mekies stated he had been impressed by Tsunoda’s “merely phenomenal” progress this season.
“He retains stunning us all, race after race,” Mekies stated.
“There’s no doubting his pure pace, to which he has now added a way more mature strategy and this mix makes him a really fast and constant performer, and an awesome staff participant.”
Tsunoda stated: “It’s an excellent feeling to have my future determined so early within the yr.
“The staff has an enormous improvement venture forward and I’m excited to be a part of it. It’s nice to know that everybody appreciates all of the arduous work I’ve put in and that the staff believes I can assist it transfer additional up.”
RB made no point out of the second seat, at the moment occupied by Daniel Ricciardo.
The staff are anticipated to decide on between retaining the Australian, who has struggled to match Tsunoda this season, and reserve driver Liam Lawson, the New Zealander who impressed when he substituted for 5 races final yr when Ricciardo broke his hand in a crash on the Dutch Grand Prix.
