Red Bull is on the verge of announcing its 2026 F1 driver line-up after a final decision was made by team management.<\/p>\n
RacingNews365 understands that Isack Hadjar will be promoted to the squad next year in place of Yuki Tsunoda following his strong rookie season.<\/p>\n
Consequently, Tsunoda will drop off the F1 grid as he will not be issued a drive at the Racing Bulls team.<\/p>\n
Tsunoda joined Red Bull earlier this year, taking over from a struggling Liam Lawson. However, Tsunoda has endured issues of his own and has not been a regular contender for point-scoring finishes.<\/p>\n
It has left Red Bull fighting one-handed at the front of the grid, with Verstappen seeking to end the year as a five-time champion.<\/p>\n
Next year, Verstappen will have his fourth team-mate in three years as Hadjar steps up to the team in place of Tsunoda, a move which is set to be officially confirmed by Red Bull on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Frenchman joined F1 this year after ending the 2024 F2 season second in the drivers’ championship.<\/p>\n
After a difficult start in Australia where he crashed on the formation lap, Hadjar has since gone on to enjoy an eye-opening campaign.<\/p>\n
His strong run of results peaked with an unexpected podium finish at the Dutch Grand Prix, classifying in third place.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old will move up to Red Bull next year when fresh technical regulations will come into play as changes are made to the power unit and chassis rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull is on the verge of announcing its 2026 F1 driver line-up after a final decision was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,42,3513,3516,3514,43,3512,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-162466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}