Yuki Tsunoda hilariously reveals takeaways & gaming fuelled start of F1 career

Japanese Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda has rather amusingly admitted that he was living off of UberEats and sitting on games consoles at the start of his career in the sport, before AlphaTauri team boss Franz Tost inspired him to change.

The former Formula 2 talent heads into his second season at the pinnacle of motorsport once again with the AlphaTauri team and once again alongside Pierre Gasly.

Certainly, the expectation for Tsunoda this year now he has a campaign of experience under his belt will be to push his French team-mate as hard as possible and finish closely to him, and it appears Tsunoda is taking off-track matters just as seriously as on-track ones.

He admits, though, that was not always the case at the start of his F1 career with him revealing that only seeing his boss Franz Tost regularly getting up early in the morning and knocking out a middle distance run inspired him to rethink his own lifestyle – which certainly didn’t sound too much like one of an F1 ace!

“Because you guys don’t know how fit Franz is,” Tsunoda told gathered reporters.

“He’s running like 10km from 5.30AM which I’ve never done in my life.

“Also last year especially the beginning or the first half of the season I was taking pretty much everyday Uber Eats breakfast, lunch, dinner, and one hand on the game control and one hand just food.”

Tsunoda seems a pretty funny character to be fair to him.

There’s no denying his talent, either, with him showing some frankly blistering pace at times last year in his rookie campaign.

The problem for him in 2021, though, was a few too many mistakes, particularly to start with, and that caught the ire of the likes of Helmut Marko.

Even so, the Japanese ace did gradually iron things out towards the end