{"id":58438,"date":"2025-10-03T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/58438\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:48:08","slug":"alex-dunne-close-to-new-f1-team-deal-after-sudden-mclaren-exit-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/58438\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Dunne close to new F1 team deal after sudden McLaren exit &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Dunne is on the verge of reaching a deal to join the Red Bull junior programme, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren and Dunne announced on Thursday that<a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/mclaren-f1-announce-shock-driver-exit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> they had parted ways with immediate effect after almost a year in collaboration.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dunne was handed two FP1 outings this year with the Woking-based squad, as well as private tests in older machinery.<\/p>\n<p>RacingNews365 understands that Dunne and McLaren were not aligned when it came to the direction of the Irishman&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren currently has two young drivers in Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, both of whom are tied down to long-term deals.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s driver academy.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>It also states that Dunne was in talks with Alpine over an F1 move, but such negotiations have collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;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<p>Dunne currently sits fifth in the F2 drivers&#8217; 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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40917,40920,40918,40921,40919,15485,7335,61,60,40916,7331,36278,17775,112],"class_list":["post-58438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}