Speaking on the latest episode of the Sky F1<\/a> podcast, Lazenby said: \u201cI get the feeling that the early whispers are that you might get two new drivers in Racing Bulls next year.\u201d<\/p>\n Racing Bulls have yet to announce their F1 driver line-up for 2026.<\/p>\n Isack Hadjar<\/a> is expected to be promoted to Red Bull alongside Max Verstappen<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n The futures of Yuki Tsunoda <\/a>and Liam Lawson <\/a>remain unclear.<\/p>\n Tsunoda has been poor since replacing Lawson at Red Bull.\u00a0<\/p>\n His wealth of experience in F1 – making his debut with AlphaTauri (now Racing Bulls) in 2021 – means he doesn\u2019t fit the profile of a driver for Red Bull\u2019s junior team anymore.<\/p>\n Lawson has shown flashes of pace since returning to Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n However, he has proved incapable of being Verstappen\u2019s teammate in a top team.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n More importantly, Lawson has been out-classed by rookie teammate Hadjar throughout this year.<\/p>\n As a result, Red Bull could opt to place two new junior drivers in their second team.<\/p>\n At the end of 2011, Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari were both dropped for the following season.\u00a0<\/p>\n They were ultimately replaced by Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne.<\/p>\n Three-time W Series champion Jamie Chadwick thinks it would make sense for Red Bull to make a double change as they\u2019re looking \u201cto try and find the next Verstappen\u201d.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cI think they might, and if they do I think it\u2019s very obvious that it\u2019s because they are constantly looking to try and find the next Max Verstappen,\u201d Chadwick said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey don\u2019t want to find the next number two drivers, or just a driver that can be solid across the board. They want to find drivers that are the next superstars in Formula 1. If they, in my opinion, just keep the same line-up as they\u2019ve got, then they know that those two drivers aren\u2019t going to be Red Bull Racing drivers.<\/p>\n \u201cThey aren\u2019t going to be drivers who are ever going to be within a tenth or so of Max, which is what they really need. Are they better off just trying something new, putting someone new in, a young driver, they might find [something] like they have with Isack Hadjar in the Racing Bulls.\u201d<\/p>\n What about Alex Dunne?<\/p>\n Last week, it was announced Alex Dunne had parted ways with McLaren.\u00a0<\/p>\n Alex Dunne<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Dunne had been part of their junior programme, participating in two FP1 sessions for the team earlier this year.<\/p>\n Helmut Marko has already confirmed Red Bull are in talks with Dunne.<\/p>\n Ted Kravitz has speculated that Dunne could make his F1 debut next year.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a good story going around that Alex Dunne, having been released from his young driver programme at McLaren, is going to be picked up by Red Bull,\u201d Kravitz said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether that\u2019s going to mean that Arvid Lindblad takes another year in Formula 2 and that it\u2019s Alex Dunne in Racing Bulls, and that it\u2019s Isack Hadjar in Racing Bulls and that Yuki Tsunoda goes to Aston Martin as a reserve driver\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull may be planning a complete overhaul of their junior team Racing Bulls\u2019 driver line-up for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,9107,946,85],"class_list":["post-200739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing-bulls","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Alex](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/xpb_1355456_hires.jpg\")
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