Formulation One’s motorsport managing director Ross Brawn has hailed Yuki Tsunoda as the most effective rookie in years after the Japanese scored factors on his debut in Bahrain final Sunday.

The previous Ferrari technical director who additionally ran the Honda, Brawn and Mercedes groups, stated he had been impressed by the 20-year-old AlphaTauri driver’s “sensible spells” within the season-opener.

“He’s the most effective rookie F1 has had for years, having been pretty gorgeous in no matter sequence he has competed in,” stated the Briton in a column for the F1.com.

“His promotion by Pink Bull appears like an excellent transfer. We will all keep in mind the wonderful days of full grandstands at Suzuka and the eagerness of the Japanese followers.

“I believe we’re going to have that once more, which is extremely thrilling.”

Formulation One has three rookies this season, certainly one of them final yr’s Formulation Two winner Mick Schumacher — the son of seven-times world champion and Ferrari nice Michael — and the opposite his Haas workforce mate Nikita Mazepin.

Schumacher completed sixteenth, lapped and final on observe on Sunday whereas Russian Mazepin spun off on the third nook — the shortest F1 debut since 2002.

Canadian Nicholas Latifi was the only real rookie final yr, failing to attain a degree with Williams, however the sport had a robust injection of expertise in 2019 when Britons George Russell and Lando Norris moved up from F2.

Russell shone final yr when he changed seven-times champion Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes for a race in Bahrain after his compatriot contracted COVID-19.

Norris, fourth on Sunday for McLaren, turned the youngest Briton to face on the F1 podium when he took third in Austria final yr.

Tsunoda, who was ninth in Bahrain, was the primary Japanese to attain factors in practically a decade and the sixty fifth driver to take action on his debut.

His outcome was the most effective outcome by a Japanese since Kamui Kobayashi completed sixth for Toyota in Abu Dhabi in 2009. Kobayashi additionally completed ninth on his debut that yr however factors have been solely awarded to the highest eight on the time.

Japan has by no means had a Formulation One race winner, not to mention a champion, however Pink Bull motorsport guide Helmut Marko instructed racefans.web that Tsunoda was the most effective probability but.

The final earlier rookie to attain factors in his first race was Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne with McLaren in 2016.