Tsunoda's management exploring IndyCar options with multiple teams

When a driver's management starts making calls to nearly half the field, it's a signal that F1 is no longer the assumed destination — or at least not a guaranteed one. Tsunoda himself distancing himself from the conversations is standard practice, but the breadth of outreach suggests this is a genuine market-testing exercise rather than a backup plan being quietly kept warm. IndyCar has absorbed F1 talent before, and a driver of Tsunoda's experience would arrive with serious credentials. The question the paddock will read into this is whether Red Bull's plans for him have become unclear enough that his camp felt the need to start looking.