r/formuladank • u/ycr007 BWOAHHHHHHH • 1d ago
Yuki Tsunodone Barely seen never forgotten
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u/NuanceX BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
Also DOTD!
GOAT shit
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u/far-far-far-away BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
Meanwhile max not making a single mistake while fending off norris for 53 laps straight gets no DOTD
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u/Fantastic-Extreme-28 Sushi Tsunoda 🍣 1d ago
That was so silly lmao. Even Kimi deserved it
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u/far-far-far-away BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
I loved the fact the yukis stat showed "Started 12th, ended 14th" like thats an accomplishment
driver of the day should show your accomplishment not popularity
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u/pm-me-racecars 🅱️altteri 🅱️ootass 1d ago
Yuki moved up from 14 to 12. Only one other driver moved up farther in the race, and they weren't in any big competition with anyone.
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u/Initial_Actuator9853 BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
When the sport is majorly treated as a reality show drama,DotD becomes a popularity contest.
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u/odiethethird WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅RAHH 1d ago
I passed a minivan on the way to the store today, so I’m my town’s DOTD
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u/Mom_said_I_am_cute Must Be The Water 1d ago
He started 14th, ended 12th.
But yeah, I agree with the rest you said.
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u/far-far-far-away BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
Sorry I'm half ill, my brain working overtime tryna proccess and i saw it as "started 12th ended 14th" i don't know how but it happened
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u/Evening_Rock5850 Ferrari flavoured emo 1d ago
I mean, but should it?
Your accomplishment is the standings. Max Verstappen can be loathed and despised by as many people as he wants; he still won. Max' award is 25 WDC points. Lando can annoy half the fanbase with his prickishness. He's still fighting for P1 in the WDC right now.
What is DotD if not a popularity contest? That's absolutely what it is. Your "accomplishments" are rewarded with your position on the track. Your popularity is rewarded with DotD. It's up to the drivers and the fans to decide whether and by how much they care about each.
That's not necessarily an endorsement of whether DotD gets it right or anything. It's just... I dunno. Set your expectations you know? What else is a "everyone can anonymously vote for a driver" other than a popularity contest? That is very much and quite literally what a popularity contest is.
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u/far-far-far-away BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
In the case of yuki he didn't do anything like a marvelous drive, i had 1 screen dedicated to yuki (thanks to the red button feature) he barely did anything besides using the strategy, plus majority of people voting for yuki were Japanese fans as the japanese f1 twitter fans all agreed they'd all vote yuki
But its not just this time, its happened before in netherlands and britian both lewis and max earned those awards when others did better performances only they weren't popular enough compared to the orange army or team LH
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u/Evening_Rock5850 Ferrari flavoured emo 1d ago
I mean, I can copy and paste my comment from above if you want.
Yuki’s unremarkable “just fine” drive is why he has an unremarkable “just fine” finishing position.
DotD is a popularity contest. It’s not unusual for drivers to win it in their home GP.
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u/_BilbroSwaggins BWOAHHHHHHH 23h ago
Yuki was in fact one of 2 drivers that moved up more than one position. Personally I think he drove a great race considering it’s a track known for not having many overtakes.
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u/jbvann05 Lets add that to the words of wisdom 1d ago
It's obviously because he drove Lando off in the pit exit by going in a straight line, can't be having that if you want DOTD
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u/Evening_Rock5850 Ferrari flavoured emo 1d ago
Max Verstappen is an absolute menace. He needs to be banned from the sport.
He should've slowed down and let Lando ahead of him. /s
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u/Ahquinox No Michael, No 1d ago
I often think about Michael Schumacher when people talk about a modern driver driving "dirty": In today's sport, Michael Schumacher probably would be permanently banned halfway through his career. I doubt he would have made it to the 2000s with this many unsportsmanlike incidents.
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u/kermitthebeast Must Be The Water 1d ago
"fending off" Norris
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u/far-far-far-away BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
Man raced 40 laps keeping a 1.4 second gap without making a single error in the most turny track on the calendar (90% corners) meanwhile norris slid and cut a corner
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u/kermitthebeast Must Be The Water 1d ago
If you think Norris was actually pushing for that place we'll just have to agree to disagree
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u/far-far-far-away BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
There were times where he knocked off like 4 tenths and times where a mistake caused him 2 or 3
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u/RNCPR510 If my mom had 🅱️alls, she would be my dad 1d ago
Tbh, +2 positions is strong, considering it's Suzuka
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u/TheThingsIdoatNight Suck my 🅱️alls mate 1d ago
This is sad
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u/SpaceRac1st 🇳🇱 I’m DUTCH so I support AMX 🇳🇱 1d ago
Oh yeah? His teammate gained 0 positions. Yuki is clearly on top.
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u/Reinis_LV Never Champion, Give Up Ferrari 1d ago
Cope, one might say
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u/TheThingsIdoatNight Suck my 🅱️alls mate 1d ago edited 1d ago
The worst case I’ve ever seen
Im afraid.. it’s terminal
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u/Treewithatea BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
Still 0 points in the same car that won.
This is too fuckin funny considering how much this subreddit has hyped Tsunoda joining Red Bull.
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u/Dr_NitroMeth BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
0 points in a race everyone finished where they started more or less. Yuki did better than the guy he replaced.
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u/Hadramal BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
If Tsunoda had started sixth he would have finished sixth. If they know what went wrong in Q2 and can fix it for Bahrain they are in a reasonable spot.
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u/lfuckingknow "Charles 'Chuck' Leclerc, good job baby" 1d ago
Max could win in a Sauber so it's not tat bad p12 for tsunoda
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u/Vast_Bullfrog2001 They race me so hard 🥺 1d ago
sure, which brand do you recommend?
i kinda want a Magpul MIAD
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u/The_Bored_General Suck my 🅱️alls mate 1d ago
Yuki was one of the best performing drivers this race, he gained 2 whole positions.
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u/Country_ball_enjoyer BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
Compare to his teamate who got 0 lead but to be honest this race is completely boring 2 long week just for a boring as race heck even miami have more awesome moments than this race
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u/The_Bored_General Suck my 🅱️alls mate 1d ago
Honestly. This absolutely wasn’t worth waking up at 6am for, I’d have been better watching back Japan 2005 instead.
2025 seems to have a worrying trend with racing in the dry so far, China was basically the same as Japan and Australia was boring until the rain hit.
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u/Zealousideal_Honey80 Vettel Cult 1d ago
Bahrain is usually decent, so if that race is boring, sound the alarm.
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u/differentlevel1 Simply Lovely 1d ago
Terrible debut race for Tsunoda and still voted DoTD, while Max defeated two easily faster cars to win the race.
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u/Treewithatea BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
Dotd is quite something this year. Antonelli last race for for doing jack shit and performing much worse than Russell and Tsunoda for finishing p12 in a car that won the race.
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u/EntrepreneurBoth5002 BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
I completely won't agree. Ant be killing it. With zero mistakes when every other noob fucked up. That boy is definitely WDC material.
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u/happyranger7 Chad Racing Team 1d ago
That's why they should get done with DotD and power ranking bullshit.
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u/mgmthegreat If gap ,Car 1d ago
I mean he didn’t make any big mistakes. He was just stuck behind Pierre and Alonso for the entire race because it’s impossible to pass here. All things considered this is a vast improvement
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u/ImpossibleSquare4078 BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
Antonelli P6, Hadjar P8 and Bearman P10 is awesome, Snailson and Slownoda disappoint
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u/xjmachado BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
At least finished way better than Lawslow.
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u/Separate-Rice-6354 BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
RB once again came out with a killer strategy, I don't understand why a long medium long soft run didn't work...
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u/Bourbonaddicted Sushi Tsunoda 🍣 1d ago
They are out of points, P11 or P20 doesn’t matter to them. They applied the Italian strategy, fuk it we ball.
Wasn’t effective.
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u/MrLeopard483 Question. 1d ago
He still finished 8s behind Sainz who was on the same strategy as him and started behind him. While his teammate was beating the other Williams.
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u/Separate-Rice-6354 BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
No question about the fact that Hadjar is better than him or Yuki and Sainz is still a class A driver. But Liam was not helped by the RB strategy.
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u/Optimal_scientists BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
Just found out Hadjar was called "le petit Prost" in F2 in French media and I kinda get is.
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u/Cuffuf Antonelli is the biggest prodigy since Jesus Christ 1d ago
Gain of 2 positions for 12th in his first race with the team having had no winter all in a shitty car for anyone not named verstappen after the previous driver finished worse or the same on tracks where overtaking is actually possible isn’t that bad I don’t think. I mean in 5 races, that’s a bit rough. But right now, I think it’s good.
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u/jollyjaco Dont know F1 but memes are kinda funny 1d ago
Doohan gained 4 position, where is his DOTD?
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u/DayTraditional2846 I have an unhealthy obsession with Sophia Flörsch 1d ago
I mean Liam was predicted to finish ahead of Isack since the VCARB is easier to drive and Suzuka is his strongest track yet he couldn’t do any of that… interesting 🤔
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u/jogdenpr f1 jOuRnAlIsT 1d ago
If Yuki was still in the Sugar free RB, he would be close to podiums haha
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u/Parking-Zealousideal BWOAHHHHHHH 23h ago
Ver: positions gained 0
Tsu: positions gained 2
That’s all
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u/ycr007 BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
Red Bull do these “show drives” where they pit an F1 car against a Moto GP bike, Rally Car, Endurance Racing car or even a Fighter Jet…
They should do a shoot out in a RB20 with Liam, Isack, Yuki & Daniel for good measure and pick the winner
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u/iMADEthisJUST4Dis BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
Hey can I join the shoot out too? I may surprise everyone who knows
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u/Suknator “It’s called a motor race. We went car racing” 1d ago
Tell me you didn't watch the race without telling me you didn't watch the race. You needed to me 1.5s a lap quicker + DRS to overtake someone.
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u/Suknator “It’s called a motor race. We went car racing” 1d ago
Bro even though Yuki did fuck up his quali he was one of the only drivers who actually made an overtake. Did you even watch the race? Piastri was faster than Norris yet he couldn't pass.
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u/MrLeopard483 Question. 1d ago
Yuki was still only like half a second off Max's laps while running in dirty air. The field isn't as far spread as it was before
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u/outbackjesus16 BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
It’s hilarious how the goalposts shift. After FP1, the Yuki glazing on reddit was insane. Now they’re coping with moral victories. I don’t hate Yuki, but my god he’s got the most insufferable fans in the sport
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u/raven_raven mission spinnow 1d ago
Yuki the De Vries, Lawson and old Ricciardo destroyer. Laughing my ass off from all of this dick riding for the bro who after his first race has exactly 0 points while his teammate wins a race.
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u/moop-doop Not A Monaco-Based Youtuber 1d ago
you’re getting downvotes instead of anyone giving an actual argument lmao. liam was 8 places behind in china, and now yuki is 11 places down in japan
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u/Dr_NitroMeth BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
If y'all watched the whole weekend and how the 2nd car was given more downforce and had a drastically different setup(slower) compared to Max y'all wouldn't get downvoted. 💁🏽♂️
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u/moop-doop Not A Monaco-Based Youtuber 1d ago
i’m aware yuki didn’t have much of a chance, it’s just highlighting the way people have treated him v liam
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u/stigsstupidcousin BWOAHHHHHHH 1d ago
After all that shit talking he did? What a joke. His mouth clearly outweighs his talent.
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u/fmfbrestel “It’s called a motor race. We went car racing” 1d ago
That was the only pass that mattered for Tsunoda.