Indycar’s Palu is not on the radar of the red bull – will it not happen?

Rumors of keeping Indycar Champion Alex Palu For 2026, the red bull’s radar appears to be wide than the mark on the radar, but many F1 teams should not be seen closely on the US series domator?

World Champion’s short -term red bull with clarity on future Max VerustapaneWhich will clean any obstacle for new Mercedes deals George Russell And Andrea Kimi AntoneleyThe end of the transfer soap has taken most of the enthusiasm that has survived the 2026 silly weather of F1.

This actually leaves the question mark with just empty alpine seat Pierre GalliWhich is still Franco ColapintoTo earn now, and whatever decision Red Bull is the owner of two teams of its four -seat constellations.

Cursed seat with Vastapane is another berth that is waiting for someone to claim it, and since then Daniel Reciardo Nobody is able to do so for Renault, with 2026 Cadilac Return Sergio Perez It was given the best for four sessions, with five wins but ended in despair.

In the margin of Peres, who returned to the grid next year, a rumor floating by Indianapolis Star was that Red Bull officials have expressed interest in rule the current occupied seat to Indycar Champion Alex Palu. Yuki Sunoda For 2026. The report referred to sources with knowledge of conversations that prevent indicating whether they came from within the Red Bull.

When contacted by Motorsport.com, the first -hand sources within the Red Bull Camp responded to the perception of entertaining a step for Palu with surprise and beamusment.

Later, Red Bull’s Advisor Helmut Marco, who plays a big role in his driver selection, told Austria’s Klein Zitung on the record that the story is “not true”. Palu himself and his team’s boss chip Ganasi also rejected the idea.

The most potential for red bull remains a choice between keeping and promoting the Avenue Tsunoda Isac Hadzar From racing bulls, though Liam Lawson Firing on all cylinders has also started in the recent race to promote the possibilities of its long -term career. The team’s principal Laurent Mcis is known as a big supporter of goldsmith after working with Japanese driver in the sister team, much higher than the outgoing Christian Horner.

This does not mean that Tsunoda has a leg on the impressive handzer, but he is going to get a proper opportunity until the end of the season to stake his claim, with an understanding that the 2025 car is extremely difficult to drive and Tsunoda has not back up over the upgrade more often than Verustapane.

Given the relative reduction of the Grand Prix experience included in all, it will probably not be such a bad thing for a trio for another year. But if it goes that Route Red Bull also has to find out what he will do with his reserve driver Arvid lindbladWhich is placed for a F1 future with the organization, but will depend on one of the supported drivers that are moving forward.

Indycar Question

While the Palu rumor has been firmly shot by all parties, this question begs; Why is the F1 team not curious for a person like Spaniard?

A person who has found a way to dominate a fantasy chain by claiming four titles in five years, including the rare achievement of winning the Indie 500 and the overall Estore Cup in the same year. And a driver who came to Gani in his Sofomore season and had a measure of Scott Dixon, a seven-time champion considered one of the all-time great.

Recently as 2022, Red Bull was eager to give its Indycar collaborative Colon horta This is the step due to the lack of a go, with this step in his sister team, which is still holding California back. Palu is undeniably in a separate league – as the youngest race winner of a regular Frontner and Indicar for all the qualities of Harta.

Lack of interest in Europe in Palu’s choice can be seen as a lack of honor of indication as a whole, which has some grains of truth because the F1 bubble is difficult for outsiders, which are not coming through their junior ladder.

Other views are available, in which F1 is a specific discipline and the atmosphere of such risk that the teams prefer to deal with the known quantity as they continuously evaluate their development programs with up and upcoming drivers to run simulator, feeder chain competition and old cars.

In the specific case of the Red Bull, it is now in a strong position, when the Harta was popped up on the radar, the alcohol and the choice of lindblads to top the top on a trajectory, and its long -lasting philosophy has to be admitted from within where possible.

Like to prove that point, US expansion team Cadilac announced its inaugural F1 driver line-up early this week And instead of an external wildcard, Waltarry went for a proven experience in the botas and Sergio Perez. It also criticized fans who have reduced the lack of inspiration and American participation, but some observers would argue that the team running TWG motorsports – a stable of Anderetti Global of Indycar – has done anything other than the right thing.

There is no shortage of homegron youth coming with the choice of Hadjar, Kimi Antonelli in F1, Gabriel Bortoleo And Oliver bearmanWhich is on the front side that its growth pipeline of F1 is strong and teams are not being forced to see just across the pond.

Vestapen himself, who crossed the path with Palu in the Carting scene of Europe and showed great respect for the achievements of Barcelona origin, also said that it is very difficult for the F1 teams to do justice to translate which degree success in Indicar. With previous Williams experiments Jacques villainuve And Juan Pablo Montoya A smash proved to be a hit. Other, not so much.

“It is always difficult to say,” said Dutchman. “I know that Alex is already from Go-Carting time, and I think what he is achieving in Indicar is unreliable. It is very impressive to see, but it is impossible to know how people will do in F1 and it is the same question that how you will do in Indycar?

“He got an opportunity to leave and he decided to live”

But the disadvantage of F1 is the advantage of Indycar as the series rebuilds speed under a landmark TV deal with Fox and can use all star power on which he can get his hands. And after the dream of an F1 seat, Palu was assured to try and force to get out of Ganasi and McLaren – since he retreated, the upcoming trial with McLaren is still on – Palu’s interest in the so -called peak of motor racing is quite cold.

After adding an elusive Indie 500 ring to his title string, one of his eight wins in a crushed 2025 campaign, you can argue that Palu has completed Indycar, and trying to win F1 is the biggest challenge in a 28 -year -old career.

But Palau, who has started a family and settled in the US, has obviously realized that the grass is not always greenery on the other side, resonating the first comments made by the other big stars of Indicar Joseph Newguarden. For Palu, life looks great as the hill of the indivtering king, checking a competitive ride and payment and all trimming coming with it, while a step for the Red Bull or any other F1 team may end in an insensitive disaster beyond its own control.

With each sip of Indycar success, the attraction of F1 decreases as a whole and the number of attractive seats decreases, which are narrow in all ways under very top diarrhea, which will never consider to start with such gambling.

“F1 is not calling me anymore,” Palu told Indycar reporters in May. “I don’t think they are having as much fun as I am here. The more I am celebrating people with my wives and their children, the more we do not see them hanging them in the bus or having dinner with my mechanics. I only enjoy driving and fun and enjoy my people, so I feel with my people, so I feel that F1 is a total opposite.”

His boss was of a similar scene. “I don’t think what happened there when we were growing up. There are two or three (good) seats, and out of it – I do not want to see him and become the number two driver anywhere. I don’t know how you go by winning the biggest race in the world (Indy 500) is not the same.

“He got the opportunity to leave (for McLaren in 2023) and he decided to live.”