Following his abrupt exit from the McLaren junior programme, Alex Dunne has still not found a new home within the F1 paddock.<\/p>\n
Shortly after his split from McLaren was made official, Red Bull’s Helmut Marko confirmed it had held talks with Dunne, labelling the Irishman as a Red Bull-like driver.<\/p>\n
Dunne has had impressive displays during his rookie Formula 2 campaign this year, including two wins and a further five podiums.<\/p>\n
However, a handful of mistakes have left him with 10 penalty points on his super licence.<\/p>\n
As a result, not everyone within Red Bull is keen to bring him onboard, RacingNews365 and Formula.hu understand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The rumours that surrounded a potential tie-up between Dunne and Red Bull involved terms that would see Dunne remain in F2 next year, ahead of a potential F1 promotion for 2027.<\/p>\n
While this deal is still on the horizon, there is still no agreement between the two parties.<\/p>\n
Red Bull’s interest in the young talent definitely exists, but not everyone within the Austrian team is convinced that they should actually bring Dunne in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The team is aligned that Dunne is incredibly fast, but there are some doubts as to whether or not he has what it takes to fashion a successful career in F1.<\/p>\n
This stems from the number of penalty points Dunne has accumulated, which puts him at risk of a race ban, as well as his sudden departure from McLaren.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It therefore remains to be seen if and when this potential partnership will come to reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following his abrupt exit from the McLaren junior programme, Alex Dunne has still not found a new home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-216464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","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-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216464","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=216464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}