Red Bull takes different approach with Yuki Tsunoda

Yuki Tsunoda has explained how Red Bull took him to the south of the United Kingdom for a "reset" ahead of the British Grand Prix.

The Japanese driver heads into the round at Silverstone mired in poor form, having scored a meagre seven points since taking over the seat next to Max Verstappen from Liam Lawson.

It comes amid speculation the Milton Keynes-based team could replace him before the end of the season, but that has been dismissed by the team.

In fact, Tsunoda maintains he is "definitely" feeling the support from Christian Horner and Helmut Marko, despite having not scored points in the past four rounds.

"I definitely feel the support, especially these days and more than ever, from Christian [and] Helmut," he told media, including RacingNews365.

"I went to the south of the UK with a physio [from] Red Bull Racing to kind of reset myself, and that was coming from them.

"They just wanted [me] to have fresh air and everything. So that helps a lot to me to build up my rhythm."

The 25-year-old also stated the six-time constructors' champions were going to take a novel approach, as the team aims to pull Tsunoda from his current run of underwhelming performance.

Without Verstappen's points-scoring contribution, Red Bull would be rooted to the foot of the constructors' championship standings.

That is the basis for Zak Brown's recent comments that, without the Dutchman, who is currently being closely linked to Mercedes, Red Bull would be behind his sister team in the pecking order.

Whilst the situation with its lead driver plays out in the coming weeks, the Horner-led squad is committed to helping its second driver better get to trips with the idiosyncrasies of the troublesome RB21.

"Also, we're going to try a couple of things that I never tried, and they allow me to do quite a lot of things that probably they wouldn’t do in a normal case," Tsunoda explained.