PADDOCK INSIDER: Tsunoda's Red Bull drive is the chance he believed he was ready for – and he'll want to seize it


More than 15 years ago, Yuki Tsunoda stood trackside with his father at Suzuka to catch a glimpse of the world’s best drivers dancing their Formula 1 cars around one of the most thrilling circuits on the planet.
While he dreamed of eventually being inside one of those cockpits – and perhaps displaying similar skills to double World Champion Fernando Alonso, whose style his father told him to replicate – at the time, it felt so far away.
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