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Red Bull ‘to TERMINATE Tsunoda's contract and considering Brit sensation, 17, to be Verstappen's next team-mate'

Red Bull ‘to TERMINATE Tsunoda's contract and considering Brit sensation, 17, to be Verstappen's next team-mate'

Scottish Sun14 hours ago
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RED ALERT Red Bull 'to TERMINATE Tsunoda's contract and considering Brit sensation, 17, to be Verstappen's next team-mate'
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YUKI TSUNODA is reportedly heading for Red Bull's ever revolving exit door with Max Verstappen set to get a new team-mate for the 2026 season.
But four-time world champion Verstappen could leave himself, with Red Bull desperate for their prized asset to turn down growing interest from Mercedes.
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Red Bull will reportedly terminate Yuki Tsunoda's contract next season
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Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko is back in charge of driver line-ups after Christian Horner's sacking
Tsunoda is set to be a victim of a full circle moment after he brutally replaced Liam Lawson to partner Verstappen just two races into the current season in March.
The rumour mill said it was former team principal Christian Horner, who was sacked after 20 years this month, who wanted Lawson out so quickly in March.
But it seems Red Bull will keep to the same replacement scheme without Horner at the helm, with Tsunoda, 25, next in line for the chop.
Ever since Daniel Ricciardo left Red Bull at the end of 2018, drivers have rarely lasted more than a season with the team, with the team's upgrade and championship focus always on Verstappen.
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Tsunoda's has endured a miserable season, scoring scrappy points on just three Grand Prix weekends, contributing just seven of the teams 172 total at the halfway point in the campaign.
According to a GPblog report, the decision has already been made to terminate Tsunoda's contract at the end of the season, although he will remain in place until then.
The Japanese star sits 17th in the drivers standings, is the lowest ranked non-rookie and has gone five rounds without scoring a single point.
Tsunoda's qualifying results have disappointed in particular, after he escaped a near-death crash in Q1 at Imola, before managing P12 in Monaco, P20 in Spain, P11 in Canada, P18 in Austria and P12 at Silverstone.
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In contrast, Verstappen, 27, secured his fourth pole of the season at Silverstone, but finished fifth behind Lewis Hamilton after skidding off the track in the rain.
With advisor Helmut Marko back in charge of driver line-ups after Horner's shock dismissal, Red Bull are likely to look inward to their Racing Bulls junior team for their next F1 star.
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One option is going back to Lawson, who has picked himself back up after being removed from his Red Bull seat, sitting above Tsunoda in the drivers standings.
But Marko, 82, is reportedly pushing for a new face and wants to promote 20-year-old rookie Isack Hadjar from Racing Bulls next season.
Hadjar entered this season as something of a wildcard after his seat came about after the late decision to sack Sergio Perez caused an opening at Racing Bulls.
But the decision to call him up now looks like a masterstroke, as the French-Algerian youngster sits just outside the top 10 in the drivers standings - with one fewer point than Lawson and Tsunoda COMBINED.
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Racing Bulls star Isack Hadjar is the favourite to replace Tsunoda
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British F2 driver Arvid Lindblad is also being considered for the second Red Bull seat
But teenage Brit Arvid Lindblad is also being considered to step up from Formula Two after completing his first free practice session at the British Grand Prix on July 6.
The 17-year-old has also been undergoing extensive TPC outings behind the scenes as he prepares to follow in Kimi Antonelli's footsteps, speedily climbing up the feeder series ladder.
Lindblad was born in 2007 and raised in Surrey to his Swedish motorcross racing father and Indian mother.
Meanwhile, Tsunoda will be the latest in a long line of Red Bull second-seat victims, following in the footsteps of Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Sergio Perez and Lawson.
The F1 season gets back underway in Belgium on July 27, with Verstappen allegedly already having met up with Mercedes chief Toto Wolff while on holiday in Sardinia.
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'Total machine': The Celtic player who is like nothing Kieran Tierney has seen before

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How devout, clean-living Brit Daniel Dubois could be the man to FINALLY beat Usyk and reach boxing immortality
How devout, clean-living Brit Daniel Dubois could be the man to FINALLY beat Usyk and reach boxing immortality

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How devout, clean-living Brit Daniel Dubois could be the man to FINALLY beat Usyk and reach boxing immortality

Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) DANIEL DUBOIS could be a young man who is about to step into history. If the 27-year-old Brit beats Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk at a packed Wembley Stadium tonight, Dubois will become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 7 Daniel Dubois is vying to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Credit: Getty 7 Brit Dubois will take on Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk at a packed Wembley Stadium Credit: Getty And for once in boxing, all the hype is justified. Tonight will be the first time ever that the undisputed heavyweight championship has been decided on British soil. Dubois holds the IBF belt, but the rest — WBC, WBO, WBA — are in the lethal hands of Ukraine's Usyk. The winner takes all. 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Daily Mail​

time5 hours ago

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What a mess Crystal Palace's European saga is - and the blame lies with UEFA, writes MIKE KEEGAN

The law is an ass – and with every passing day its enforcement appears to resemble a donkey derby. UEFA first introduced rules on multi-club ownership in 1998. The aim was to prevent collusion. How is that working out? In recent times Red Bull Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg have competed in the Champions League, as have Girona and Manchester City, who both come under the City Football Group. Why? Because their owners, well aware of the steps needed, ticked the relevant boxes in time. Indeed, when it looked like Nottingham Forest and Olympiakos may both qualify for the Champions League – and potentially breach the rules – Evangelos Marinakis did what everyone else in that position does and placed his shares in Forest into a blind trust. What Palace are guilty of is not colluding with Lyon, who are owned by former major shareholder John Textor, but of failing to play along with the game. Unsurprisingly, they are now in war mode at Selhurst Park ahead of an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The shovels are out and it would appear that the digging is unearthing all manner of dirt. As Mail Sport has revealed, Palace are expected to demand that UEFA hands over what they believe are bombshell emails and texts that exist between the governing body and Nottingham Forest. UEFA introduced multi-club ownership rules to prevent collusion, but that has hardly worked They are firmly of the view that the documents prove that Forest were given extra time beyond the March 1 deadline to comply with the rules. As it turned out, Marinakis was removed as a person of significant control of NF Football Investments, the vehicle that owns the club, on April 30. Should Palace succeed with their demand, they believe the documents would represent the smoking gun they need to present to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) as it would clearly indicate double standards. Furthermore, UEFA's case stands and falls on the March 1 deadline, which was brought forward for this season. Confirmation of an extension for one and not another would at the very least raise serious questions. When Mail Sport asked chairman Steve Parish for his observations following Palace's crunch hearing at UEFA HQ, he declined to comment. However, earlier this week, he took a swipe at the 'beneficiaries'. 'If there wasn't someone who wanted to get in as a consequence, then there wouldn't be a problem,' he told The Rest is Football podcast. 'People have to look at themselves in terms of what they do. Some people say it's fine, some say it's not. I don't have control of that. I have control of the arguments we put forward to UEFA.' But Forest are looking out for, rather than at, themselves, which ironically is the sole thing every Premier League club has in common. At the City Ground they were aware of the initial deadline and of the issue and reacted accordingly, albeit even if they did need additional time. As things transpired, Forest did not qualify for the Champions League and so there may be an element of the red herring. It is impossible not to feel sympathy for Palace and their fans. The enemy here, however, lies at the side of Lake Geneva, rather than the River Trent.

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