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It doesn’t matter how much you try to hide, the Bullseye is always watching…

Judging by the downcast faces of the Ferrari pair, Max’s pre-race psychological games were working a treat, especially when he told them this was the nearest they’d be getting to a podium all day.

Lance always ha d plenty of funn y stories about his dad to ente rtain the crew on th e tr “Once I asked hi m for a set of go ack walk: my birthday. H lf clubs for e bought me Au gusta National, Royal County D own, St Andrew s and Turnberr y.”

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Having to hide behind the barriers every time Carlos came by, just because you owed him money, was getting a bit tedious for the two photographers.

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Daniel had always wanted to be a magician, but switched to juggling when he realised he could never manage to say the word “prestidigitation” properly.

Presit, prestal, digitin... Oh, forget it.

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Well, Charles, just ask Sebastian. First , they tell you there’s hospitality and then no table for lunch in they start locking yo u out of the garage …

Mark was unhappy at having to wait for wardrobe to turn up, because although it was clearly written down on the paper he was reading, DC had yet again forgotten the ‘socks at all times’ rule.

ATP star Dominic Thiem couldn’t understand why, in the Bu lletin, F1 drivers talked about needing big balls for this track.

Why can’t they do like ten nis players and use the same size all the time?

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YUKI ATTACK

He’s the quickest thing to come out of Japan since Speed Racer manga star Gō Mifune, can swear better than most mechanics and at 21 knows more about food than most: the wonderful YUKI TSUNODA is breathing new life into F1.

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But all hell has broken loose on social media...

That’s true but personally I don’t think social media is all that important. It’s one of the things I like least about Formula 1.

Some people get carried away and say things they wouldn’t necessarily say to my face, especially when things aren’t going well, but it’s just part of the job.

You’ve made it perfectly clear what you like best about Formula 1: the food in the paddock.

That’s right. Which doesn’t mean I’m saying the food in the paddock in lower formulas was bad. I’m not saying that at all.

But today we’re interested to know what the next-best thing about Formula 1 is.

Tyre-warmers! They’re amazing. If your tyres are the perfect temperature, you can attack right from the first lap, whereas in the lesser categories you always have to wait for them to warm up.

Do you also drive fast in everyday life?

Yes, if no-one’s around. The most demanding thing from a driving point of view in Milton Keynes are the roundabouts.

But even there you’ve got to keep an eye out. Most other drivers don’t have a Superlicence.

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DRESS FOR SUCCESS

Yuki Tsunoda is ready for the Red Bull Ring.

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“WHAT’S THE NICEST THING HELMUT MARKO HAS EVER SAID TO ME? THAT HE LIKED MY LONG HAIR.”

Yuki has been part of the Honda Formula Dream project since winning his Formula 4 title in 2018.

Aren’t Pinzgauers unbearably slow for a Formula 1 driver?

With them it’s more about precision than speed, especially off-road and with such old technology. I like precision.

Yuki Tsunoda: Two top-10 finishes in the first six F1 races of his life – quite a start to a career.

What car do you drive in your day-to-day life outside F1?

A 581hp Honda NSX. It’s really spectacular, a really cool car for a 21-year-old. One of the advantages of being in Formula 1 with Honda.

You’re now in your third year in Europe, you’ve lived in Switzerland, the UK and you recently moved to Italy. Which of those would you tell your countrymen to visit first?

Switzerland. I lived near Lausanne. The lake, the mountains... Perfect for training on my bike. Good, French-inspired cuisine.

I like the food in Italy a lot too, even if the region around Faenza, where my team is

based, isn’t meant to be Italy’s finest. Maybe I shouldn’t fly next time and come via the Alps instead.

Speaking of Austria, there will be fans in Spielberg again after your F2 heroics from last year played out in front of empty stands.

Heroics! What heroics? I just wanted to collect the points I needed for the Superlicence for F1.

Still, one pole position, one second-place finish...

True enough. Of course racing at the Red Bull Ring in an AlphaTauri will be a sort of home race for me. You can tell that people

What’s the story behind your race number of 22?

I wanted number 11 because that was the number I drove my first kart-race with.

I was four years old at the time. But I couldn’t have it as 11 belongs to Checo Pérez. Then I wanted number 7 but Kimi has that. So I ended up just doubling 11.

While we’re talking about Kimi, he’s also just himself, which is what the fans like about him. In that sense he reminds me a little bit of the young Tsunoda-san; you were also just Yuki right from the off in Formula 1.

Thanks, I’ll take that as a compliment. I do indeed try not to disguise myself. With Yuki what you see is what you get.

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Do you already have a connection to Austria?

I like schnitzel. That’s the only other word I can say in German besides Dankeschön!

Recently we took two Pinzgauers, old off-road vehicles, and drove through the mountains in them. It was wonderful! A lot of nature. Very similar to Switzerland in that way, I think.

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in Austria have a special connection to any drivers driving a Red Bull, even in the lesser categories. I was lucky enough to experience that back in 2019 in F3.

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And you can swear with the best of them, sometimes even over the radio, much to the amusement of the global audience.

I know. That might be because Japanese doesn’t have words like “f**k!” and “s**t!” and you have to express all that in much more complicated ways, so I find a short, concise word that describes the mood to be very practical.

Is that what makes you so popular with European fans?

It’s probably because I speak passable English, I dare to be open and don’t fear stumbling from one faux pas to the next.

I had trouble with the language when I came to Europe but I tackled it head on and I still go to lessons to this day.

And you hang out with mechanics, which probably explains your fruity vocabulary.

More with the engineers. As with everything else, it’s a matter of practice. To start with, I had to translate everything in my head from Japanese to English. Now I often think directly in English.

Franz Tost says that you are a very quick learner. I mean, generally, not just when it comes to language.

If I want to reach my goals, I have to improve. And making progress is fun too.

Yuki’s father, a mechanic and amateur racer himself, infected the Alpha Tauri driver with the motorsport virus and managed him during his successful years in karting.

What is the nicest thing Helmut Marko has ever said to you?

That he liked my long hair and he thought it was a shame that I’d cut it. I’ve been letting it grow back ever since.

Were you nervous before starting your first F1 race?

No! Why would I be? I was happy. The expectations of me as a rookie are that I need to and should be allowed to learn in any case. Of course it was wonderful that I scored points in my very first race.

How do increased expectations affect your goals for the season?

It would be good if I finished in the top 10 in the drivers’ championship. Our car is up to that.

Your self-confidence reminds me a little of Max Verstappen.

Thank you! That’s a nice compliment. If I could choose a team-mate, it would be Max. I can learn a lot from him and he seems to be a nice guy.

What connection do you have with him?

We haven’t known each other that long but in Monaco he showed me how to mix and drink a proper gin and tonic.

And in return you teach him how to cook?

Max says he doesn’t like fish. I’d like to get him to try really good sushi so that he gets a taste for it.

The last Japanese driver in Formula 1 was Kamui Kobayashi in the sluggish Caterham back in 2014.

For other noteworthy careers of Yuki Tsunoda’s countrymen… Please turn the page!

Where does your love of food come from?

I wanted to learn because I live alone. I see it as a project, to eat well and enjoy myself doing it.

“I TRY NOT TO DISGUISE MYSELF. WITH YUKI WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET.” You are interested in a multitude of sports. Are there sports stars you’d like to meet one day?

There are footballers and e-sports stars I’m interested in. They’re sports I do myself too.

But I’m more interested in sportsmen and women from sports I don’t actively play myself. I find downhill mountain-biking really cool. Going downhill at 90kph.

Amazing! They’re really in control of their equipment. And I think that what Marc Márquez does on his Honda in MotoGP is incredible. He really is the best. I cross my fingers for him in every race. No-one has style like him.

Would you like to give his bike a go?

Sadly I don’t have a motorbike licence.

But at the Monaco Grand Prix I had a 50cc scooter and I tried to see if I could touch the floor with my knee on it on the turns.

So, what happened?

I couldn’t, unfortunately, but I won’t give up!

Could it be that everything you do, you attack it with a certain relish?

It absolutely could!

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Fast, fearless and occasionally unfathomable, Japanese drivers have always been fan favourites and over the years have provided F1 with some truly memorable moments.

Here are our top five rising sons…

1. KAZUYOSHI HOSHINO: JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 1976

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The inaugural Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji in 1976 will always only be remembered for the epic title showdown between Niki Lauda and James Hunt – unless you’re Kazuyoshi Yoshino. Making his Formula 1 debut in a Heros Racing entered Tyrrell 007, Hoshino ran as high as third in the race until tyre issues forced him to retire. He would drive once more in F1, at the following year’s race at Fuji, but his greatest success came domestically, first as a multiple Japanese F3000 champion and then as a team owner.

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2. TAKI INOUE: HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX 1995

3. AGURI SUZUKI: JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 1990

The rich tapestry of F1 history is threaded through with great performances from Japanese drivers. It also features some truly epic fails. We could point to Yuji Ide getting his superlicence revoked after just four races in 2006 but for sheer haplessness the award must go to Taki Inoue. In 1995, after finishing just one of the first nine races with the strugglingFootwork team, Inoue arrived in Hungary expecting more of the same. He got it when his engine expired after 13 laps. However, bad turned to worse when he went to fetch a fire extinguisher and was promptly run over – by the medical car. “Bang!

Someone hit me very hard,” he recalled.

“But I landed on my feet: perfect landing.

I think 9.9 marks out of 10.”

It took 14 years for a Japanese driver to make it to the podium in Formula 1 and when it did it was at the wheel of an unlikely car, the Larrousse Lola LC90.

The struggling squad had been given a financial lift in late 1989 by a Japanese chemical corporation who handed a drive to home hero Aguri Suzuki. The Japanese racer was lucky, too, as that year’s Larrousse was surprisingly competitive. At his home grand prix, after the famed early collision between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, Suzuki stealthily rose through the order thanks to strategy that saw him make no pit stop and he finished third behind Nelson Piquet and Roberto Moreno. Suzuki would later return to F1 in the early 2000s as owner of F1 minnows Super Aguri, which leads us to…

4. TAKUMA SATO: CANADIAN GRAND PRIX 2007

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We could have picked out Sato’s 2004 podium finish at the US GP with BAR but we prefer Taku’s barnstorming drive to P6 with Super Aguri at the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix as his greatest F1 moment. Midway through 2007, Sato gave the F1 minnows a true David versus Goliath moment in Montreal when he came up against defending world champion Fernando Alonso three laps from the flag. The Japanese racer’s banzai attack on the McLaren manwas brave, ballsy and surprisingly accurate.

He muscled the world champion aside, stole sixth place and secured Super Aguri’s best ever finish.

5. KAMUI KOBAYASHI: JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2012 Kobayashi made his F1 debut in 2010 with Sauber and in three seasons with the team he racked up 122 points across 58 starts. His finest moment arrived on home soil in 2012 when he not only fended off pressure from McLaren’s Jenson Button but also shrugged off the expectations of the home crowd and the stress of knowing his drive at the troubled team was under threat to claim the only podium of his F1 career.

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STARRING: Sir Lewis C Hamilton as Det. Rico Tubbs; Max Emilian Verstappen as Det. Sonny Crockett, and Stefano Domenicali as Det. Lt Marty Castillo.

With Sergio Pérez Mendoza as Jenko, Terry Bottas as Schmidt and Juan Pablo Montoya as The Burger King. Also starring Fernando Alonso as ‘Generic European Villain’, Daniel Ricciardo as ‘Laconic Australian’, Lando Norris as ‘annoyingly eager but basically likeable Wesley Crusher-type adolescent’, Yuki Tsunoda as ‘non-specific martial arts expert’ and Kimi Räikkönen as cop ‘who really is too old for this s**t’. FEATURING: Andreas Seidl as Hans Gruber; Toto Wolff as that guy with the white cat; Guenther Steiner as himself; George Russell as the Last Boy Scout, Mick Schumacher as Tango and Nikita Mazepin as Cash. GUEST STARRING: Phil Collins as Ron Dennis and Michael Madsen as Mattia Binotto. SONGS BY one of those guys from the Eagles, the one that wrote ‘Smuggler’s Blues’. SCREENPLAY by that intern who sleeps outside Spielberg’s house. DIRECTED by Michael Masi.

AN FOM PRODUCTION. Shot on location in Miami… but not the bit you were hoping for. No egos were harmed during the making of this movie – much.

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LIFE’S A BEACH F1 is heading to Miami in 2021 and we all know what that means – pastel jackets, rolled up sleeves, ‘80s music, and a nefarious plot to kidnap some of the world’s top racers.

Time to call in the paddock’s very own Crockett and Tubbs then…

Juan Pablo Montoya: Criminal mastermind and burger fan.

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ce detectives Max ‘Sonny’ Crockett and Lewis ‘Rico’ Tubbs come out of retirement and go undercover to investigate one more case – an cruel people trafficking scheme, in which the stars of Formula 1 are kidnapped and transported to Miami where they are ruthlessly forced into indentured servitude for a shadowy organisation named IndyCar. Triggered by the recent disappearance of a Frenchman known only by the codename ‘First Lap Nutcase’, Crockett and Tubbs discover the trafficking route has been operating for years with many F1 drivers held in captivity in the living hell of really nice mansions with sailboats and jetskis for over a decade.

Appalled by the thought of top singleseater racers being made to turn right all the time, Crockett and Tubbs roll-up the sleeves of their white Armani jackets, ironically slot a copy of Phil Collins’ ‘No Jacket Required’ into the cassette deck and set about infiltrating the F1 paddock at the Miami Grand Prix, where they desperately try to figure out exactly which evil megalomaniac would hold a driver to an unfair agreement that ties Phil Collins is Ron Dennis. them to an organisation forever and then sells him to the highest bidder… Hang on, we might need an extra reel for this or maybe some sequels. At any rate, it might take a while.

rotected only by their pastel slip-on, sockless loafers and Ray-Ban Wayfarers, the two sleuths set up operations in a not-very secret hideout next to the media centre, where poor personal hygiene and sockless poverty are the norm, From there, our heroes fight off mosquitoes the size of pelicans, endure humidity that makes Singapore look like the Nürburgring in November and still manage to set a half decent FP2 time without denting that 2006 Jetta staging a lone tailgate party by the unloading zone.

Eventually they make a breakthrough, and aided by a well-placed and surprisingly fun-loving informant known as ‘The Swede’ (OK, it’s Marcus Ericsson), they contact the lost F1 stars who have all been brutalised by the relaxed IndyCar schedule into thinking they enjoy more competitive racing, sensible technical demands and less aggressive media intrusion.

Marcus Ericsson is plucky informant ‘The Swede’.

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he fearless duo discover the operation is masterminded by shadowy Columbian kingpin Juan Pablo Montoya, a former Formula 1 star who turned against the sport after being denied access to fast food by a controlling team boss in a gratuitous flashback scene designed to crowbar in a ratings-boosting guest appearance by Phil Collins. During a frankly inevitable red flag period they tempt Montoya out of hiding

with the promise of a supersized meal deal at one of the Hard Rock Arena’s surprisingly numerous fast food franchises. Their plan to sedate Montoya with dosed onion rings goes awry when he steals Crockett’s curly fries instead and, following a thrilling shoot-out with hot beverage containers, they finally drag him back to race control to face swift Aussie justice, before they return to the pit lane for the restart.

REVIEWS FOR MIAMI NICE FROM CRITICAL AGGREGATION SITE: RANCID ORANGES Like The Wire, Breaking Bad and Fargo, The Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix is… something you can watch if you have a television set.

Loved it! Far more realistic than Drive to Survive, with better acting, more realistic plotlines and less gratuitous swearing.

Makes a hell of a lot more sense than the ending of Lost!

You know how budget airlines say you’re going to Rome, Paris or Frankfurt, but you’re really going to somewhere that has a bus service to those places? It’s like that. But with cars.

The plot is plucked straight from the front page of a script of a totally different, much better movie.

This year’s Sharknado!

Better than Driven!

The Hard Rock Arena is the perfect home for F1 in much the same way the Empire State Building is the perfect home for a 50,000lb Gorilla!

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DANIEL RICCIARDO’S …

PODIUM OF PERFECTION The McLaren racer chooses his all-time top trios and reveals an unexpected passion for diggers, schnitzel and short shorts, as well as telling us that Max Verstappen likes to flash the cash …

TOP 3 RACES (ANY SERIES) YOU’D LIKE TO WIN IN YOUR OWN PERSONAL TRIPLE CROWN

REAT TOP 3 ALL-TIME GR TEAMS O SPORTING HEROES

Ooh! Daytona 500; The Melbourne Grand Prix [Ed. We’re assuming the Form ula 1 Australian Grand Prix and not the tenn is tournament – but with Daniel, who knows] and probably… Yeah, got to be the Le Mans 24 Hours.

… ichael Jordan and Valentino Rossi; M derer. hmmm … Roger Fe

TOP 3 TRACKS VISIT ENTLY F1 DOESN’T CURRSHOULD BUT REALLY TO… CONSIDER GOING but Macau!

It’s very optimistic d have to say Then, usually I woul tually Mugello but we ac t year… las e on crossed-off that ugello.

M y sa to but I’m still going e. us ca Be . st …and Bathur

TOP 3 F1 DESTINATIONS FOR GOOD FOOD

TOP 3 PLACES AND TO HANG OUT IN CO AROUND MONA

Austin, Montreal and Italy.

Oh, wait! Schnitzel – I like a good schnitzel. Hmmmm…

OK, Austin, Montreal … no… right, OK …. Final answer: Austin, Italy, Austria.

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U CAN’T LEAVE TOP 3 THINGS THAT YO UT HOME WITHO ! Snacks!

My iPod. Erm… passport

TOP 3 BAD HABITS OF MAX VERSTAPPEN Ha-ha-ha! Being late!

Not knowing his limit and spending too much money! And make sure to point out I was laughing when I answered this one!

TOP 3 THINGS THAT ONLY AUSTRALI

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Speak funny! Pull off short-shorts really well and walk barefoot in really hot temperatures… no, hang on, there’s a few other places where people are good at that too, so scratch that. Wrestle crocodiles.

That’s just us.

TOP 3 TRACKS ON YOUR PRE-RACE

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Ditto by Aries; My Life by J Cole; and ooooh, this is tough… sorry, I’m stalling. I feel like there’s som ething there. Let’s go for Aluminum Union by Strike Anywhe re.

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18. August 1974 Quester’s driving skills were not in question but the same could not be said for the car at his disposal for his 1974 home Grand Prix. The Surtees TS16 he drove was uncompetitive.

Tyre-manufacturer Firestone was due to leave the sport at the end of the seas on and was out of motivation. Financially, the team was on the brink of collapse and so entered four cars instead of the agreed two, with team boss John Surtees happy to accept Quester’s sponsorship money.

However, Quester was at the bottom of the driver pecking order within the team.

The mechanics even left a toolbox on the track at the start of the race. After the race, in which Quester was the only Surt ees driver to finish (in ninth), he calle d the team boss a scoundrel on TV, lead ing Surtees to annul Quester’s three-ra ce contract. Countryman Helmuth Koin igg signed up for the team but he was killed two races later in a crash at Watkins Glen.

By contrast Quester continued racin g touring cars for another 40 years.

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Boschkurve, Österreichring 1974: Dieter Quester in the Surtees TS16 briefly leads McLaren’s Denny Hulme.

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