Verstappen 'perfection', a miss for McLaren? Japanese GP Review with Yuki Tsunoda, Christian Horner, Heikki Kovalainen + Laura Winter
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🗓️ 6 April 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner praises Max Verstappen's 'inch-perfect' race win at Suzuka and reveals the engineering work which gave Max the car for victory. Then, Laura, Heikki and Tom debate whether McLaren could have done anything differently to challenge Verstappen.
Home hero Yuki Tsunoda joins the podcast to reflect on what he calls an 'up and down' Red Bull debut. Yuki looks forward to the next race in Bahrain and tells us the strangest present he got from a fan in Japan.
Plus, we cover impressive races from Kimi Antonelli, Isack Hadjar and Ollie Bearman, Alex Albon's team radio frustration, and a promising weekend for Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:25.8 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:32.6 | It was a flat-out sprint race, |
| 0:35.3 | and we had just enough in hand to beat the McLarency. |
| 0:38.3 | He was inch-perfect every lap for 53 laps. Max Astavon wins the Japanese Grand Prix to deny Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. |
| 0:46.3 | That's perfection. |
| 0:49.3 | If you're McLaren, do you go, we missed something here, we missed a chance? |
| 0:56.0 | Should they have swapped the cars? |
| 0:59.0 | It would be a risky thing for the team to do at this point of the championship. |
| 1:03.0 | Local hero, Yuki Sonoda. |
| 1:05.0 | To be honest, how I ended up in the race in terms of confidence level is completely different as how I started this weekend. |
| 1:12.5 | So I'm really excited for next race. |
| 1:20.3 | A stunning pole lap, a brilliantly controlled drive to the win. |
| 1:25.7 | It went all the way to the final lap and Max Verstappen made it |
| 1:29.7 | three Grand Prix winners in the first three races of 2025. Welcome to Suzuki. We're in the paddock |
| 1:36.5 | deep inside the Red Bull's celebrations at the back of their garage. I'm Tom Clarkson and with me |
| 1:42.2 | for this show we have Heikovvelin and former F1 driver, |
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