13-time F1 grand prix winner David Coulthard is set to join the management structure of Alex Albon, RacingNews365 understands.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Coulthard, a veteran of F1 with 246 race starts, will act as an additional guide for Albon as the Thai driver navigates his career.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
For several years, Albon has been exclusively managed by Jacques Heckstall-Smith, a fellow former employee of Red Bull Racing, who will continue in his role for the Williams driver, and who is also known to have a strong relationship with Coulthard.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, RacingNews365 understands the management structure will now be bolstered by Coulthard and will offer Albon the opportunity to directly learn from a driver mentor.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
This effect was already seen on Friday at the Belgian Grand Prix as Coulthard was spotted conversing with Albon during FP1 at Spa-Francorchamps.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Coulthard has known Albon since the 30-year-old’s days at Red Bull Racing, where the former still holds duties as an ambassador of the team.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The duo also have connections from a previous business partnership.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Following Albon’s exit from Red Bull at the end of 2020, he sat out the 2021 season before striking up a partnership with Williams to return to the grid the following year.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
He has been a consistent performer for the team since his arrival and in 2025, he helped lift the team to fifth in the constructors’ standings alongside Carlos Sainz – its highest result in eight years.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, the 2026 campaign has been a struggle for Albon as Williams’ uncompetitive car across the opening stage of the season has seen it languish down the pecking order compared to its position last year.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"13-time F1 grand prix winner David Coulthard is set to join the management structure of Alex Albon, RacingNews365…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-532520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}