Montoya: “Tsunoda is no longer on anyone’s radar. F1 is sad”

Verstappen’s teammates In the last ten seasons of Red Bull’s history, all the drivers who shared the garage of the Milton Keynes team with Max Verstappen had a more or less short experience: from the negative record of Liam Lawson, relegated to Racing Bulls last year after only two races played, to the 90 GPs of Sergio Perez, still today the driver with the greatest number of weekends waiting for what Isack Hadjar, promoted again by Racing Bulls to replace Yuki Tsunoda. Tsunoda’s 2026 In 2025, the Japanese had been called by the Anglo-Austrian team to replace Lawson, but his path in F1 will not continue as an official driver not even in Faenza, where he came from, but as a test driver for Red Bull. As a result, the 25-year-old will not be among the drivers on track in the 2026 championship, with Racing Bulls which will in turn field Arvid Lindblad, the only rookie in the world championship. Already forgotten driver Present in F1 since 2021, Tsunoda has collected more than 100 GPs, despite never having managed to achieve a podium. Yet, its future now seems sealed. This, at least, is the opinion of Juan Pablo Montoya, who in an interview with AS Colombia is convinced of how the teams have already forgotten about the Red Bull test driver: “Look how sad Formula 1 is – explained the winner of 7 races in his career – people don’t even think about Yuki anymore. Not even a month has passed since the last race, just a month and a week. Yuki is no longer even on anyone’s radar. This is the reality of this sport. There are those who one day they are heroes and the next day they are zero. When you are a hero, you have to take advantage of it.”