“This is a karting session I’d love to join!”: F1 fans react to Max Verstappen, Pierre Gasly, Sergio Perez and Yuki Tsunoda’s lineup on Honda Thanks Day 

“This is a karting session I’d love to join!”: F1 fans react to Max Verstappen, Pierre Gasly, Sergio Perez and Yuki Tsunoda’s lineup on Honda Thanks Day 

Honda Thanks Day

With the end of the 2022 Formula One World Championship, it is now holiday season in the paddocks as the post-season testing is also done. During this time, most of the racers love to fly back home and spend some personal time with their family before the next season kicks off and they have to go to different parts of the world for the most part of the year for the Grands Prix. But the racers of the teams powered by Japanese engine manufacturer Honda–Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez, Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda–were seen out and about in Japan for a very special day.

Honda is a long-standing collaborator of Red Bull, and it also started supporting AlphaTauri from back in the day when it was still Scuderia Toro Rosso. The Japanese manufacturer organises the Honda Thanks Day where all of the Honda racers from the different franchises of motorsports, such as Formula 1, MotoGP, and others, gather and display their skills behind the wheels or on the motorbikes.

This time, the fans spotted the Red Bull duo of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez take part in a cutesy karting battle with AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda and soon-to-be-Alpine racer Pierre Gasly. Also present at the event were Repsol Honda racers from MotoGP, including the 6-time World Champion Marc Marquez. MotoGP posted a picture of Marquez in a conversation with Max Verstappen on their Instagram. And on Twitter, Red Bull gave a photo of Gasly, Tsunoda, Verstappen and Perez taking part in the Honda Thanks Day karting competition, and fans gave their reactions to it.

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Fans believe the fifth kart at the Honda Thanks Day competition should have been for Sebastian Vettel

Honda Thanks Day
Honda Thanks Day

Honda organized a massive event in Japan on the first Sunday following the end of the Formula 1 2022 season. There, Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez, Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda were all present for the Honda Thanks Day, and they performed a kart race which amused all the fans. While the Twitterati commented on the photo of the current F1 Champion riding a kart, some of them talked about how Sebastian Vettel deserves to drive one of the karts at the Honda Thanks Day event since he used to be a Honda racer back when he was a driver for Red Bull.

Many of the fans even questioned if Daniel Ricciardo would be present at the Honda Thanks Day event since he is now a part of the Red Bull reserve drivers squad. But unfortunately, the Australian missed out on the event. Here are what the fans had to say about the Honda Thanks Day karting race–

With Pierre Gasly already scheduled to join Alpine for the next season’s races, the Honda family will welcome a new member from AlphaTauri–Nyck de Vries. The 27-year-old is from Verstappen’s home country, and he has commented that he is stoked to join the Red Bull-AlphaTauri family. Now, only time will tell how the pairing of de Vries with Tsunoda will work out for AlphaTauri in the 2023 Championship.

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