Yuki Tsunoda reshuffled his administration staff amid dropping out on a Pink Bull promotion to Liam Lawson for the 2025 Formulation 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 fully on driver administration as he additionally works with F3’s Noah Stromsted.
“I’m not working [with] Mario anymore, and Luis as effectively,” Tsunoda confirmed to Motorsport.com. “I am actually pleased with Diego.
“He is motivated, positively. 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 relationship, which is an effective begin. However ultimately, an important factor is to carry out on observe, which can make Diego’s life simpler.”
Isack Hadjar and Yuki Tsunoda, RB F1 Staff
Photograph by: Andy Hone / Motorsport Photographs
The 2025 F1 season shall be Tsunoda’s fifth within the sequence, all coming with Pink Bull’s sister squad which has raced beneath the AlphaTauri, RB and now Racing Bulls guises because the 24-year-old’s debut.
Pink Bull has by no means significantly thought-about Tsunoda for a promotion to its principal 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 interchange Sergio Perez as Max Verstappen’s team-mate even earlier than the Mexican’s departure was formally confirmed.
So Tsunoda will now accomplice 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 12 months did a step I believe none of us was anticipating,” mentioned Racing Bulls staff boss Laurent Mekies throughout 2025 pre-season testing in Bahrain.
“[He] did an enormous step ahead when it comes to velocity, when it comes to maturity, when it comes to technical suggestions – and I believe if there’s one other step like that in Yuki this 12 months, it’ll be actually, actually attention-grabbing!
“So when it comes to what would 12 months appear to be for him, it’s to see one other step of the identical magnitude of what we have seen final 12 months.”
Tsunoda’s future past 2025, nevertheless, stays unsure. Chatting with the media shortly after Lawson’s promotion was introduced, Horner questioned whether or not it “is smart” to maintain Tsunoda within the Pink Bull household if he isn’t in rivalry for a senior staff seat this 12 months.
If Pink Bull releases him on the finish of the season, Tsunoda’s choices seem restricted. He was in talks with Haas final 12 months and was additionally being thought-about by Sauber, however Pink Bull opted to increase his contract for one more season.
Since then, each groups have locked of their driver line-ups for the subsequent few years, leaving Tsunoda with few apparent alternate options ought to he discover himself out of a seat for 2026.
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