Yuki Tsunoda reshuffled his administration group amid dropping out on a Crimson Bull promotion to Liam Lawson for the 2025 Components 1 marketing campaign.
The Racing Bulls driver was beforehand managed by Mario Miyakawa and Luis Alvarez, earlier than parting methods with each shortly after the 2024 season led to December.
Tsunoda is now being managed by Mexican Diego Menchaca, who contested European single-seaters till 2018 earlier than switching to sportscars.
He has competed within the Worldwide GT Open for the previous two years having completed runner-up in 2023, however from 2025 he’ll focus completely on driver administration as he additionally works with F3’s Noah Stromsted.
“I’m not working [with] Mario anymore, and Luis as nicely,” Tsunoda confirmed to Motorsport.com. “I am actually proud of Diego.
“He is motivated, undoubtedly. As soon as we determined to work collectively, he instantly went to Helmut’s [Marko, Red Bull advisor] workplace to construct a relationship. That type of effort, I actually admire – and clearly, Helmut did too.
“They have already got an excellent relationship, which is an effective begin. However in the long run, an important factor is to carry out on observe, which can make Diego’s life simpler.”
Isack Hadjar and Yuki Tsunoda, RB F1 Workforce
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The 2025 F1 season will likely be Tsunoda’s fifth within the sequence, all coming with Crimson Bull’s sister squad which has raced below the AlphaTauri, RB and now Racing Bulls guises for the reason that 24-year-old’s debut.
Crimson Bull has by no means severely thought-about Tsunoda for a promotion to its essential squad, regardless of outperforming his previous three team-mates in Nyck de Vries, Daniel Ricciardo and Lawson.
The choice to advertise Lawson for 2025 sparked combined reactions within the paddock, however the 23-year-old was lengthy tipped to exchange Sergio Perez as Max Verstappen’s team-mate even earlier than the Mexican’s departure was formally confirmed.
So Tsunoda will now companion rookie Isack Hadjar at Racing Bulls and he’ll begin the marketing campaign because the Italian outfit’s clear primary driver after ending a career-best twelfth within the 2024 standings.
“Yuki final yr did a step I believe none of us was anticipating,” stated Racing Bulls group boss Laurent Mekies throughout 2025 pre-season testing in Bahrain.
“[He] did an enormous step ahead by way of pace, by way of maturity, by way of technical suggestions – and I believe if there may be one other step like that in Yuki this yr, it is going to be actually, actually attention-grabbing!
“So by way of what would an excellent yr appear to be for him, it’s to see one other step of the identical magnitude of what we have seen final yr.”
Tsunoda’s future past 2025, nonetheless, stays unsure. Talking to the media shortly after Lawson’s promotion was introduced, Horner questioned whether or not it “is sensible” to maintain Tsunoda within the Crimson Bull household if he isn’t in rivalry for a senior group seat this yr.
If Crimson Bull releases him on the finish of the season, Tsunoda’s choices seem restricted. He was in talks with Haas final yr and was additionally being thought-about by Sauber, however Crimson Bull opted to increase his contract for an additional season.
Since then, each groups have locked of their driver line-ups for the subsequent few years, leaving Tsunoda with few apparent options ought to he discover himself out of a seat for 2026.
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