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Tsunoda: Improved mentality brought F1 chance

Yuki Tsunoda has credited his work with a “psychological trainer” for the F2 improvement that ended with him securing an AlphaTauri drive. The 20-year-old from Japan will team up with Pierre Gasly at AlphaTauri in the 2021 Formula 1 season after Dr Helmut Marko, head of Red Bull’s driver development programme, saw enough potential to promote him into Daniil Kvyat’s seat. It represents a meteoric rise for Tsunoda, who has now made a step up in three consecutive years having still been competing in the F4 Japanese Championship in 2018. With his talent and speed not in question, it came down to Tsunoda harnessing the mental side of his game in order to show he had what it takes to...
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