{"id":324416,"date":"2025-12-03T06:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324416\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:49:11","slug":"red-bull-confirm-f1-2026-line-ups-oscar-piastri-misses-abu-dhabi-fp1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324416\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull confirm F1 2026 line-ups; Oscar Piastri misses Abu Dhabi FP1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time to bring you up to speed with the key headlines from a very busy day in the world of Formula 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/team\/red-bull\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull<\/a> has announced the drivers who will form their Red Bull Racing and Racing Bulls line-ups for F1 2026. It is bad news for Yuki Tsunoda. Meanwhile, Oscar Piastri will start the Abu Dhabi title-decider on the back foot. Let us take a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull F1 2026 line-ups announced<\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen has a new Red Bull teammate for F1 2026, as Isack Hadjar makes the step up.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Lawson remains with Racing Bulls, partnered by teenage hot prospect Arvid Lindblad.<\/p>\n<p>The big loser in this reshuffle: Yuki Tsunoda.<\/p>\n<p>Read more \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/red-bull\/yuki-tsunoda-red-bull-test-reserve-f1-2026-driver-shakeup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yuki Tsunoda receives new Red Bull role in F1 2026 driver shakeup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oscar Piastri to miss Abu Dhabi GP FP1<\/p>\n<p>Before focus turns to F1 2026, there is the very significant matter of a title decider to attend to this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris, Verstappen and Piastri all head to Abu Dhabi with a chance to become world champion, but Piastri will have one hour less practice to prepare himself, as he needs to satisfy the FIA requirement on F1 rookie sessions.<\/p>\n<p>That means Pato O\u2019Ward will be in Piastri\u2019s car for the first hour of practice.<\/p>\n<p>Read more \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/oscar-piastri-forced-to-miss-abu-dhabi-fp1-fia-rule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Piastri to miss Abu Dhabi GP FP1 as McLaren reserve steps in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris and Arvid Lindblad footage resurfaces<\/p>\n<p>By securing his Formula 1 call-up, Lindblad has delivered on a promise that he once made to Norris.<\/p>\n<p>Footage has re-emerged of the moment that Lindblad told Norris to \u201cremember me\u201d, as he would see him \u201cin five years\u201d. Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Read more \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/arvid-lindblad-lando-norris-see-you-in-five-years-footage-resurfaces-red-bull-announcement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lindblad delivers on Lewis Hamilton-inspired promise to Lando Norris<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All you need to know about Arvid Lindblad<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Brit, born to a Swedish father and Indian mother, is a prospect who Red Bull has very high hopes for.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of his debut, we have brought together all the information you need on Arvid Lindblad, a potential future star of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Read more \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/arvid-lindblad-profile-red-bull-junior\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who is Arvid Lindblad? The Red Bull junior tipped for future Formula 1 success<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Has Red Bull got this right?<\/p>\n<p>Now that Red Bull has confirmed the driver pairings for its two teams, the F1 2026 grid is complete.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull decisions are sure to spark plenty of debate, so the PlanetF1.com team has weighed in. The decision to drop Tsunoda to test\/reserve, proves a particularly hot topic, with Red Bull widely backed over that choice to drop the Japanese driver.<\/p>\n<p>Read more \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/features\/opinion-was-red-bull-right-to-drop-yuki-tsunoda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion: Was Red Bull right to drop Yuki Tsunoda?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is time to bring you up to speed with the key headlines from a very busy day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,818,10114,825,913,44,2333,918,85,5077],"class_list":{"0":"post-324416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-home-page","14":"tag-isack-hadjar","15":"tag-max-verstappen","16":"tag-mclaren","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-oscar-piastri","19":"tag-red-bull","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-yuki-tsunoda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324416","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=324416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}