{"id":100280,"date":"2025-10-03T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/100280\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T02:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:16:09","slug":"alex-dunne-close-to-new-f1-team-deal-after-sudden-mclaren-exit-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/100280\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Dunne close to new F1 team deal after sudden McLaren exit – report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Dunne is on the verge of reaching a deal to join the Red Bull junior programme, according to a report.<\/p>\n

McLaren and Dunne announced on Thursday that they had parted ways with immediate effect after almost a year in collaboration.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dunne was handed two FP1 outings this year with the Woking-based squad, as well as private tests in older machinery.<\/p>\n

RacingNews365 <\/strong>understands that Dunne and McLaren were not aligned when it came to the direction of the Irishman’s career.<\/p>\n

McLaren currently has two young drivers in Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, both of whom are tied down to long-term deals.<\/p>\n

Following confirmation that Dunne is no longer under contract at McLaren, BBC Sport has stated that Dunne is close to agreeing a deal to join Red Bull’s driver academy.<\/p>\n

Should that be the case, the report details that Dunne would stay in Formula 2 for another season in 2026 with the hope of gaining a promotion to F1 in 2027 with Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n

It also states that Dunne was in talks with Alpine over an F1 move, but such negotiations have collapsed.<\/p>\n

Red Bull’s junior programme has handed a route to F1 for many drivers, including four-time champion Max Verstappen and current drivers Carlos Sainz, Alex Albon and Pierre Gasly, who have moved on to other teams.<\/p>\n

Dunne currently sits fifth in the F2 drivers’ standings with two rounds to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Dunne is on the verge of reaching a deal to join the Red Bull junior programme, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[63672,18,63675,63673,63676,63674,42783,2524,19,17,63671,36806,59695,5539,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-100280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-lewis-hamilton","19":"tag-max-verstappen","20":"tag-motorsport","21":"tag-racing","22":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}