1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill has urged Yuki Tsunoda to get “on the telephone” to Aston Martin if he continues to be ignored by Purple Bull.
Regardless of out-performing Daniel Ricciardo throughout each metric to this point in 2024, Purple Bull aren’t contemplating Tsunoda as an possibility for the senior staff.
Ricciardo and Liam Lawson have been considered the entrance runners to exchange Perez – if Purple Bull wished to make a change.
Nonetheless, final week, Purple Bull confirmed that Perez will stay within the seat – for now no less than – as he seems to be to re-find his kind at tracks he’s historically carried out nicely on corresponding to Baku and Singapore.
Talking on the F1 Nation podcast, Hill mentioned Tsunoda ought to have a look at Aston Martin on condition that the door at Purple Bull appears to be shut.
“If I used to be him I’d be on the telephone to Aston Martin as a result of he’s Japanese and so they’ve bought Honda coming,” Hill mentioned.
Hill additionally urged that Max Verstappen would probably favor having Ricciardo as a teammate given the pair’s shut relationship.
After the Belgian Grand Prix, they have been pictured in a helicopter collectively leaving the circuit.
Some followers thought it was a ‘tender launch’ of them being teammates once more – however that was later disproved by Purple Bull.
“He’s proper in saying that I can’t perceive it and it doesn’t make any sense,” he added.
“Whenever you see footage of Max leaving the circuit in a helicopter with Daniel Ricciardo, and there’s all smiles. You get the sensation of Danny Ric and Max. Max could be fairly proud of Danny Ric as a teammate.
“If his energy is such in that staff he can virtually affect that call then I do assume the strain is on to get Danny in there.
“They’ve given him a second lease of life by encouraging him. His performances have been getting stronger. There’s no query about it.”
