{"id":502167,"date":"2025-10-15T18:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502167\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:43:10","slug":"red-bull-adopt-new-stance-on-signing-very-fast-driver-at-risk-of-being-banned-f1-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502167\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull adopt new stance on signing ‘very fast’ driver at risk of being banned | F1 | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Bull<\/a> are having doubts over the potential signing of former McLaren<\/a> junior driver Alex Dunne, according to reports. The young Irishman is yet to find a new team after leaving the British outfit earlier this year in a bombshell development. He was rated highly by the Woking squad and replaced Lando Norris in FP1 at the Austrian Grand Prix in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In spite of Dunne’s potential, his contract was surprisingly terminated by McLaren<\/a> ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix. Shortly afterwards, it emerged that Red Bull<\/a> were in talks with the 19-year-old over potentially moving into their junior setup. However, it has since been reported that senior figures are not entirely convinced about signing him.<\/p>\n

A handful of mistakes in his F2 campaign have left Dunne with 10 penalty points on his super licence. As a result, not everybody within Red Bull<\/a> is eager to snap him up, according to RacingNews365<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The report states that Red Bull<\/a> previously discussed a deal that would see Dunne remain in F2 next season, ahead of a potential promotion to F1 the following year.<\/p>\n

That proposal is still believed to remain on the table, but there is still no agreement between the two parties and some Red Bull<\/a> figures are having doubts because of his penalty points situation.<\/p>\n

Red Bull<\/a> unanimously agree that Dunne is a quick driver with plenty of potential. However, there are said to be concerns about whether he truly has what it takes to forge a successful F1 career.<\/p>\n

The sudden nature of his McLaren<\/a> exit is also thought to be a sticking point and it remains to be seen if a deal with Red Bull<\/a> will materialise over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

It comes after Helmut Marko confirmed that discussions had taken place with Dunne<\/a>, describing him as a ‘very fast’ driver with a bright future.<\/p>\n

“We’re in discussions, now that he’s free,” he confirmed to BBC<\/a> Sport. “He’s very aggressive, fast and has good car control. He’s making lots of mistakes as well, at the moment, but he’s very like a Red Bull<\/a> driver.”<\/p>\n

Dunne had also reportedly been in discussions with Alpine, but those talks have now subsided after no progress was made with the French outfit.<\/p>\n

Only time will tell if Dunne will secure a contract with an F1 team ahead of the 2026 campaign as he looks to take the next step in his young career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull are having doubts over the potential signing of former McLaren junior driver Alex Dunne, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[91192,4199,12202,1076,130217,164620,1842,1841,164621,57703,707,122473,7182,4200,227,1710,226,15085,749,8558,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-502167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-alex-dunne","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-section","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-gossip","13":"tag-f1-junior-driver","14":"tag-f1-latest","15":"tag-f1-news","16":"tag-f1-schedule","17":"tag-f2","18":"tag-formula-1","19":"tag-formula-2","20":"tag-formula-one","21":"tag-formula1","22":"tag-helmut-marko","23":"tag-mclaren","24":"tag-red-bull","25":"tag-red-bull-f1","26":"tag-red-bull-racing","27":"tag-sport-section","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-uk","30":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115379660949445656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}