Yuki Tsunoda
 Tsunoda in 2021 | |
| Born | 11 May 2000 Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan |
|---|---|
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| Nationality |  Japanese |
| 2021 team | AlphaTauri-Honda |
| 2022 team | AlphaTauri-Red Bull[1] |
| Car number | 22 |
| Entries | 22 (21 starts) |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Career points | 32 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| First entry | 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix |
| 2021 position | 14th (32 pts) |
| FIA Formula 2 Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2020 |
| Car number | 7 |
| Former teams | Carlin |
| Starts | 24 (24 entries) |
| Wins | 3 |
| Podiums | 7 |
| Poles | 4 |
| Fastest laps | 1 |
| Best finish | 3rd in 2020 |
| Previous series | |
| 2020 2019 2019 2016–18 | Toyota Racing Series FIA Formula 3 Championship Euroformula Open Championship F4 Japanese Championship |
| Championship titles | |
| 2018 | F4 Japanese Championship |
| Awards | |
| 2020 | Anthoine Hubert Award |
| Website | Official website |
Yuki Tsunoda (Japanese: 角田 裕毅, Tsunoda Yūki; born 11 May 2000) is a Japanese racing driver who is racing for Scuderia AlphaTauri in Formula One. Supported by Honda since 2016 through the , he was the 2018 Japanese F4 champion and in 2019 also received backing from Red Bull.[2] He finished third in the 2020 Formula 2 Championship and made his Formula One debut in 2021 for AlphaTauri, a team owned by Red Bull and using Honda engines.
Career[]
Karting[]
Born in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Tsunoda started his professional karting career in 2010, joining the JAF Junior Karting Championship, before moving to the regional class in 2013 and to the national class in 2014.[3]
Japanese Formula 4[]
In 2016, Tsunoda graduated from Honda's in the advanced formula class and became a member of the .[4] In the same year he made his single-seater debut in the F4 Japanese Championship with the Sutekina Racing Team for a one-off event in Suzuka. He claimed his first podium with 2nd in the first race and finished 4th in the second race.
In 2017, Tsunoda started his first full season of single-seater racing in the F4 Japanese Championship while also contesting in the regional East series of the JAF F4 Japanese Championship.[5] Tsunoda won the title of the regional championship while finishing third in the national Formula 4 championship.[6] He contested both championships with Honda.[7]
Tsunoda continued to race in Japanese F4 in 2018 with the Honda Formula Dream Project team. Tsunoda claimed the title amassing seven wins.
FIA Formula 3 and Euroformula Open[]
With Honda tying up with Red Bull in Formula One, Tsunoda also joined the Red Bull junior team alongside the Honda programme.[2] At the end of 2018, Tsunoda was announced to join Jenzer Motorsport in the newly announced FIA Formula 3 Championship.[8] He finished 9th in the championship with three podiums and a win,[6] scoring all of the Jenzer team's points during the season.
Tsunoda also competed for Motopark in the Euroformula Open Championship, following the cancellation of Formula European Masters.[9] After a second place finish in the first race at Paul Ricard and achieving third place in the Pau Grand Prix, Tsunoda claimed his maiden championship win in the second race at Hockenheim.[10][11][12]
FIA Formula 2 Championship[]
In the beginning of 2020, Honda announced that Tsunoda will join Carlin to race in the FIA Formula 2 Championship.[13] During the 2020 season he took three wins, four pole positions, seven podiums and finished 3rd in the championship with 200 points.[14]
Formula One[]
In August 2020, Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda Formula One team principal Franz Tost announced that Tsunoda would drive for the team in the end-of-season rookie test at Abu Dhabi in December 2020.[15] He had his first drive in a 2018-spec car at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy.[16] He again tested Formula One machinery at Imola in January 2021, but this time, he drove an AlphaTauri-liveried Toro Rosso STR14, Toro Rosso's 2019 car.[17]
AlphaTauri (2021–)[]
He replaced Daniil Kvyat and partnered Pierre Gasly at the team for the 2021 season.[18] His car number is 22, previously used by Jenson Button.
At the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, Tsunoda finished in ninth place.[19] After the race, Ross Brawn, Formula One's technical director, hailed Tsunoda as "F1's best rookie for years".[20] He crashed in qualifying for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix and went on to finish the race in twelfth place after starting from the back. He qualified sixteenth for the Spanish Grand Prix and later apologised after questioning whether he and teammate Gasly had "the same car".[21] He went on to retire from the race with an electrical failure. Tsunoda reached the third qualifying session (Q3) for the first time at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but then brought out the red flags after crashing. He finished the race seventh. Tsunoda crashed again in qualifying at the French Grand Prix and was forced to start from the pit lane. He reached Q3 again at the Styrian Grand Prix but received a grid penalty for impeding Valtteri Bottas.
Tsunoda achieved his best Formula One result up to that point at the Hungarian Grand Prix. He started the race sixteenth, improved to seventh place at the finish line, and was promoted to sixth after Sebastian Vettel's disqualification.[22] He retired from the Dutch Grand Prix with a power unit issue.[23] At the following race, the Italian Grand Prix, he collided with Robert Kubica in sprint qualifying and then failed to start the race due to brake issues.[24]
In the next seven Grands Prix, Tsunoda advanced to Q3 all but once, but was only able to convert one of those into a points finish, placing ninth at the United States Grand Prix.[25] However, in the final race of the season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, he qualified in eighth position; notably, this was the first time all season that he outqualified teammate Pierre Gasly, who was eliminated in Q2.[26] From this position, he went on to finish fourth and gain 12 points, just ahead of Gasly in fifth, thereby improving his best Formula One result thus far. With those points, Tsunoda secured 14th place in the drivers' championship and ended the year on 32 points.[27]
Tsunoda and Gasly were retained by AlphaTauri for the 2022 season.[28]
Racing record[]
Career summary[]
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | F4 Japanese Championship | Sutekina Racing Team | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 16th |
| 2017 | F4 Japanese Championship | Honda Formula Dream Project | 14 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 173 | 3rd |
| 2018 | F4 Japanese Championship | Honda Formula Dream Project | 14 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 245 | 1st |
| 2019 | FIA Formula 3 Championship | Jenzer Motorsport | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 67 | 9th |
| Euroformula Open Championship | Motopark | 14 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 151 | 4th | |
| Macau Grand Prix | Hitech Grand Prix | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 11th | |
| 2020 | FIA Formula 2 Championship | Carlin | 24 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 200 | 3rd |
| Toyota Racing Series | M2 Competition | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 257 | 4th | |
| 2021 | Formula One | Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 14th |
Complete F4 Japanese Championship results[]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Sutekina Racing Team | OKA 1 |
OKA 2 |
FUJ1 1 |
FUJ1 2 |
SUG 1 |
SUG 2 |
FUJ2 1 |
FUJ2 2 |
FUJ2 3 |
SUZ 1 2 |
SUZ 2 4 |
MOT 1 |
MOT 2 |
MOT 3 |
16th | 30 |
| 2017 | Honda Formula Dream Project | OKA 1 3 |
OKA 2 1 |
FUJ1 1 11 |
FUJ1 2 5 |
AUT 1 9 |
AUT 2 2 |
SUG 1 5 |
SUG 2 Ret |
FUJ2 1 1 |
FUJ2 2 4 |
SUZ 1 1 |
SUZ 2 3 |
MOT 1 8 |
MOT 2 4 |
3rd | 173 |
| 2018 | Honda Formula Dream Project | OKA 1 Ret |
OKA 2 1 |
FUJ1 1 1 |
FUJ1 2 1 |
SUZ 1 1 |
SUZ 2 1 |
FUJ2 1 2 |
FUJ2 2 3 |
SUG 1 3 |
SUG 2 1 |
AUT 1 8 |
AUT 2 11 |
MOT 1 1 |
MOT 2 2 |
1st | 245 |
Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship results[]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Jenzer Motorsport | CAT FEA 10 |
CAT SPR 9 |
LEC FEA 7 |
LEC SPR 9 |
RBR FEA 16 |
RBR SPR 11 |
SIL FEA 14 |
SIL SPR 7 |
HUN FEA 9 |
HUN SPR 6 |
SPA FEA 6 |
SPA SPR 2 |
MNZ FEA 3 |
MNZ SPR 1 |
SOC FEA 12 |
SOC FEA 25† |
9th | 67 |
† Driver did not finish the race but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
Complete Macau Grand Prix results[]
| Year | Team | Car | Qualifying | Quali Race | Main race |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |  Hitech Grand Prix
|
Dallara F3 2019 | 21st | 16th | 11th |
Complete Toyota Racing Series results[]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | M2 Competition | HIG 1 5 |
HIG 2 1 |
HIG 3 4 |
TER 1 11 |
TER 2 7 |
TER 3 3 |
HMP 1 7 |
HMP 2 16 |
HMP 3 3 |
PUK 1 4 |
PUK 2 7 |
PUK 3 4 |
MAN 1 9 |
MAN 2 7 |
MAN 3 6 |
4th | 257 |
Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results[]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Carlin | RBR FEA 18 |
RBR SPR 11 |
RBR FEA 2 |
RBR SPR Ret |
HUN FEA 16 |
HUN SPR 18 |
SIL FEA 3 |
SIL SPR Ret |
SIL FEA 6 |
SIL SPR 1 |
CAT FEA 4 |
CAT SPR 4 |
SPA FEA 1 |
SPA SPR 9 |
MNZ FEA 4 |
MNZ SPR NC |
MUG FEA 16 |
MUG SPR 19 |
SOC FEA 2 |
SOC SPR 6‡ |
BHR FEA 6 |
BHR SPR 15 |
BHR FEA 1 |
BHR SPR 2 |
3rd | 200 |
‡ Half points were awarded as less than 75% of the scheduled race distance was completed.
Complete Formula One results[]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | WDC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda | AlphaTauri AT02 | Honda RA621H 1.6 V6 t | BHR 9 |
EMI 12 |
POR 15 |
ESP Ret |
MON 16 |
AZE 7 |
FRA 13 |
STY 10 |
AUT 12 |
GBR 10 |
HUN 6 |
BEL 15 |
NED Ret |
ITA DNS |
RUS 17 |
TUR 14 |
USA 9 |
MXC Ret |
SAP 15 |
QAT 13 |
SAU 14 |
ABU 4 |
14th | 32 |
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