Red Bull parts ways with two talented drivers with immediate effect

 Red Bull has removed two young drivers from its Junior Team, Oliver Goethe and Tim Tramnitz, GPblog can confirm.

Red Bull parting ways with the duo does not come as a surprise. Goethe competed in Formula 2 last season, finishing 15th. Next season, he will drive for Prema Racing in the series.

Fellow German Tramnitz raced in Formula 3, and finished fourth in the standings. For 2026, he has not managed to secure a seat in F3 or F2 due to a lack of sponsorship funding. Red Bull had informed the driver that without securing a seat in a high-profile category, their collaboration would end. That has now happened.

Only one Red Bull driver in Formula 2

Nikola Tsolov will be the only Red Bull junior in Formula 2 this year. In F3, the Austrians have three drivers: Mattia Colnaghi, Ernesto Rivera and Fionn McLaughlin.

Red Bull’s academy is as renowned as it is notorious. Under the leadership of ex-advisor Helmut Marko, Red Bull regularly dared to promote youngsters from the feeder series to Formula 1. However, if a driver didn’t perform well enough for a while, he was sent away just as quickly.

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