Pink Bull Formulation 1 advisor Helmut Marko has confirmed he'll choose up discussions with former McLaren junior Alex Dunne a couple of function with the crew.
Dunne and McLaren went their separate methods after the 2 events could not come to an settlement over their future plans. The F2 frontrunner sees his pathway to F1 promotion on the papaya crew blocked by the presence of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, who're each on long-term offers.
With Dunne changing into a free agent, it permits the 19-year-old to completely discover his choices elsewhere, with Pink Bull recognized to have had exploratory talks with him. These discussions will now resume, the crew's driver advisor Marko confirmed to Autosport.
“He is a really aggressive driver, he has incredible automobile management, and he is quick. So that is what Pink Bull likes, and naturally we may have discussions with him [now he's free],” Marko mentioned.
Fairly how Dunne suits into the Pink Bull puzzle is just not but clear, however with the Irishman not but qualifying for an FIA superlicence.
The almost certainly avenue is one other marketing campaign in F2 dovetailed with personal testing and TPC outings, with Dunne already having accomplished two FP1 classes for McLaren this yr.
Alex Dunne accomplished two Friday outings for McLaren in Austria and Italy.
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With Dunne dropping most of his accrued superlicence factors after this season, he wants to complete within the high three of this yr's F2 championship to qualify. Meaning making up 31 factors to third-placed Williams junior Luke Browning in addition to overhauling a 21-points deficit to Richard Verschoor, with simply two rounds in Qatar and Abu Dhabi left to run.
Pink Bull has but to verify its driver line-ups throughout Pink Bull Racing and Racing Bulls, with a ultimate choice anticipated to be introduced by the top of the month. Racing Bulls rookie Isack Hadjar is in line for promotion to the primary crew, whereas Pink Bull's present junior driver Arvid Lindblad is predicted to be promoted to the Anglo-Italian squad.
Including Dunne to the line-up as the subsequent expertise in line would match with Marko's most well-liked technique of getting somebody ready within the wings to place strain on the organisation's race drivers.
When requested what Pink Bull's plan for Dunne may seem like, Marko appeared to depart choices open relying on the place the Irishman finishes in F2: “He does not have an excellent license, so let's have a look at. There are two extra races in F2. Let's have a look at what he can obtain.”
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