Alex Dunne

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Alex Dunne

Alexander Dunne (born 11 November 2005) is an Irish racing driver who is due to compete in the 2025 FIA Formula 2 Championship with Rodin Motorsport. He previously won the 2022 F4 British Championship, and was the 2023 GB3 runner-up with Hitech Grand Prix.[1][2][3]

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Alex Dunne
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Dunne in 2022
Nationality Irish
Born (2005-11-11) 11 November 2005 (age 19)
Offaly, Ireland
FIA Formula 2 Championship career
Debut season2025
Current teamRodin Motorsport
Car number17
Starts0 (0 entries)
Wins0
Podiums0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finishTBD in 2025
Previous series
2024
2023
2022
2022
2022
2021
2021
FIA F3 Championship
GB3 Championship
F4 British Championship
Italian F4 Championship
Formula 4 UAE Championship
ADAC Formula 4
F4 Spanish Championship
Championship titles
2022F4 British
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He is a member of the McLaren Driver Development Programme and the reserve and development driver for McLaren Formula E Team.[4]

Racing career

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Karting

Dunne began karting at the age of eight, taking a number of victories in local competitions.[5] He would then progress to national competitions in 2015, winning the Motorsport Ireland 'IRL' and '0' Plates and also taking home the Ironside Trophy. That year he would also make his first competitive appearance outside of Ireland, racing in the Super 1 National Championship in the United Kingdom. Following two years of competing on the British Isles, Dunne started racing in mainland Europe in 2018. He would stay in European karting until 2020, with his highlight being winning the WSK Champions Cup in 2019.[6]

Formula 4

2021

Dunne made his single-seater racing debut in 2021, racing for Pinnacle Motorsport in the F4 Spanish Championship.[7] His season started out in positive fashion, as he scored a pole position on debut in Spa-Francorchamps.[8] Despite having fallen back to fifth owing to a poor start, finished third in his first ever race.[9] Following the round, Dunne would only score twice in the next two rounds that he competed in. Following the Portimão round, Dunne and the team parted ways, leaving the Irishman 16th in the overall standings with 30 points at the end of the season.[10]

It was announced in September of the same year that Dunne would be joining US Racing as part of their ADAC F4 Championship line-up.[11] At his first round at the Hockenheimring, the Irish driver had an impressive debut, picking up two second places.[12][13] His next appearance at the track yielded a pair of pole positions,[14] although that round brought a retirement and two fourth places.[15] He finished eighth in the standings with 76 points, beating a number of full-time competitors.

2022

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Dunne driving at the Red Bull Ring during the 2022 Italian F4 Championship.

At the beginning of 2022, Dunne competed in the F4 UAE Championship for Hitech GP in preparation for his European campaign.[16] He would achieve his first ever win in car racing during the third at the Dubai Autodrome through unusual circumstances, as, during a red flag, all drivers bar Dunne parked up in the pitlane instead of the start/finish straight, giving them all a five-second penalty.[17] Despite being overtaken by Andrea Kimi Antonelli at the restart, the Irishman remained closely behind the Italian to inherit the victory.[18] After a third place rostrum during the third Dubai round,[19] Dunne won another race during the third race of the final round at the Yas Marina Circuit, he would follow this up with a third place during the last race.[20] Dunne finished sixth in the standings, having scored two wins, four podiums and 168 points.

For his European season, Dunne stayed with US Racing to compete in the Italian F4 Championship, partnering Kacper Sztuka, Marcus Amand, Pedro Perino and Nikhil Bohra.[21] In the first round of the campaign at Imola, Dunne amassed a triple of podiums, having overtaken PHM Racing's Nikita Bedrin in the dying embers of Race 1 to pick up second place and having stormed to the front in Race 2, he held off a fast-charging Rafael Câmara until the checkered flag for the win.[22] Despite losing control of the car in Race 3 after hitting a sausage kerb on lap one, the Irishman was able to recover to third.[23] However, despite a podium at Misano and another one at Spa-Francorchamps, he would be shuffled out of the top two in the championship, being overtaken by Prema drivers Rafael Câmara and Andrea Kimi Antonelli.[24] Dunne returned to winning ways at the Red Bull Ring, taking two victories and an additional podium, thus narrowing the gap to his two competitors.[25][26][27] However, despite three second-placed finishes in the remaining two events, Dunne would have to settle for second in the standings, with Antonelli having attained an unassailable lead during the season finale.[28][29]

During the same year, Dunne also raced in the British F4 series with Hitech.[30] He started his season out in commanding fashion, winning the pair of main races at the season opener at Donington Park, whilst taking second in the reversed-grid race.[31][32] The following round at Brands Hatch would provide mixed results, as despite a dominant win in Race 1, Dunne ended up finishing out of the points in both other races.[33] Round 3 at the Thruxton Circuit would once again bring success, with the Irishman winning races 1 and 3 and extending his championship lead, having experienced a hard battle with Carlin driver Ugo Ugochukwu on Saturday.[34][35] Dunne once again won the opening race at the next round held at Oulton Park,[36] but he would only finish third in Race 3, having lost out to Louis Sharp and Oliver Gray at the start.[37] The Irish driver experienced a difficult start to the event in Croft, finishing seventh in Race 1, although Dunne was able to take advantage from a stall by poleman Georgi Dimitrov in Race 2 to take victory.[38] In Sunday's main race, which Dunne started from tenth, he clawed his way back to third place by the checkered flag, with his closest championship rival Gray closing the gap between the pair by winning the race.[39] After a less successful round at Knockhill, Dunne bounced back with a pair of victories in the main races at Snetterton and Thruxton respectively, thus setting a new record for most victories in a single British F4 season.[40][41] At the penultimate round in Silverstone, Dunne finished on the podium in Race 1 despite being involved in a collision with Gray,[42] and took another third place in the final race of the event.[43][44] Despite missing the final round, instead having chosen to complete his campaign in Italian F4, Dunne was crowned champion on the final weekend, with his points gap having been insurmountable.[45] Throughout the season, Dunne secured eleven wins, eleven poles, seventeen podiums and 412 points.[46]

At the end of the season, Dunne took part in the F4 UAE Trophy Round with Hitech,[47] finishing second and tenth in the races.[48]

Formula Regional

At the beginning of 2023, Dunne competed in the 2023 Formula Regional Middle East Championship with Hitech Grand Prix, for the final two rounds.[49] However, he did not partake in any rounds.

GB3

For the 2023 season, Dunne progressed to the GB3 Championship, returning to Hitech Grand Prix.[50][51] Dunne began the season with solid points finishes in Oulton Park,[52] and improved his pace in Silverstone with a fourth and sixth place.[53] Dunne tasted success the next round in Spa-Francorchamps, where he clinched his first GB3 victories during Races 1 and 2.[54] However, he only netted one podium in the following three rounds, in which he admitted that he had "difficult title hopes" after the Brands Hatch round.[55] Dunne did bounce back during the penultimate round in Zandvoort where he claimed a double victory, closing the gap to leader Callum Voisin.[56][57] Dunne notched up a third-place podium and another win in Donington Park, however he ultimately missed out on the title to Voisin by 18 points.[58] Despite that, Dunne still finished runner-up in the standings with 466 points, having taken five wins all season.[59]

Macau Grand Prix

2023

Dunne joined Hitech Pulse-Eight to make his debut at the 2023 Macau Grand Prix.[60] Dunne impressed on his initial runs coming fifth in Q1, eventually leaving him in sixth for the qualifying race.[61] He had a great start and moved to third early on in the qualification race, before overtaking Gabriele Minì on the safety car restart to finish second.[62] However, misery would pile in the main race as he crashed out on the first lap, misjudging his braking point while trying to overtake Luke Browning for the lead.[63]

2024

Dunne returned to the Macau Grand Prix in 2024, albeit in Formula Regional machinery, with SJM Theodore Prema Racing.[64] He qualified 18th due to an unavoidable crash,[65] but improved in the main race, taking advantage of rivals' mishaps to finish in a respectable sixth place.[66]

Formula 3

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Dunne driving the Dallara F3 2019 during the 2024 Spielberg Formula 3 round

Dunne joined MP Motorsport for the 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship, completing the team's lineup alongside Red Bull juniors Kacper Sztuka and Tim Tramnitz.[67] He scored points during the Bahrain opener, as Dunne moved up the order from 14th to finish ninth in the feature race.[68] He scored more points in Melbourne with seventh place during the sprint race.[69][70] In Imola, Dunne was set to qualify fifth; his first top 12 in qualifying but was disqualified due to a non-conformity with the front anti-roll bar links.[71] He recovered a total of thirty places in both races, but did not score points.[72] Another disappointing weekend followed in Monaco followed, where Dunne was eliminated in a multi-car collision during lap 1 of the sprint race.[73] However, his big break came in the Barcelona sprint race, where Dunne secured his first podium in F3 with second place, having fought for the lead with Mari Boya.[74] He had a solid feature race, improving two places to finish in seventh.[75]

In Austria, Dunne had another good weekend, finishing fourth in the sprint despite a slight collision with Sebastián Montoya, and tenth in the feature race.[76] However, Dunne experienced a bruising weekend in Silverstone, as he was involved in a collision with Charlie Wurz during the sprint, while he was an innocent bystander in a collision with Montoya and Joshua Dufek.[77] Dunne also received a ten-place grid drop for Hungary for re-joining onto the track in an unsafe manner.[78] Dunne secured a front row start in Spa-Francorchamps.[79] In the feature race, Dunne dropped two places at the start, and a mistake into the gravel on the safety car restart further lost him places and he fell to tenth at the flag.[80] He qualified on the front row once again for the Monza finale.[81] He had a strong sprint race, carefully overtaking his rivals to finish fourth on the road, but was promoted to the rostrum after a penalty for Montoya.[82] Dunne momentarily led the feature race for the first few laps, but eventually slipped down the order and finished fourth.[83] Dunne finished 14th in the drivers' standings with 50 points, ahead of Sztuka but behind Tramnitz.[84]

Formula 2

Dunne took part in the post-season Formula 2 test in Abu Dhabi with Rodin Motorsport.[85]

In February 2025, Dunne was confirmed to drive for Rodin Motorsport during the full 2025 Formula 2 season, partnering Christian Mansell.[86]

Formula One

In September 2022, Dunne took part in a scouting camp conducted by the Ferrari Driver Academy.[87] Ahead of the 2024 Imola Formula 3 round in May, Dunne was announced to be joining the McLaren Driver Development Programme.[88]

Formula E

In January 2025, Dunne was announced as the reserve and development driver for McLaren Formula E Team.[89] He will make his debut in Formula E machinery during the rookie practice session for the Jeddah ePrix.[90]

Personal life

He is the son of Noel Dunne, a former racing driver who won the Irish Formula Ford F1600 series on two occasions.[91]

Karting record

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Karting career summary

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Season Series Team Position
2015 Motorsport Ireland ‘IRL’ Plate 1st
Motorsport Ireland ‘0’ Plate 1st
T. Rogers Memorial Cup 1st
Ironside Trophy 1st
Super 1 National Championship — IAME Cadet 42nd
2016 LGM Series — IAME Cadet 20th
Motorsport Ireland ‘0’ Plate 1st
2017 LGM Series — IAME Cadet 2nd
ROK Cup International Final — Mini ROK 5th
Super 1 National Championship — IAME Cadet 4th
Kartmasters British Grand Prix — IAME Cadet Primo Racing 3rd
2018 WSK Champions Cup — OKJ Forza Racing NC
WSK Super Master Series — OKJ 15th
WSK Open Cup — OKJ 26th
CIK-FIA European Championship — OKJ 37th
CIK-FIA World Championship — OKJ 11th
IAME International Final — X30 Junior 11th
WSK Final Cup — OKJ 29th
2019 WSK Champions Cup — OKJ Forza Racing 1st
South Garda Winter Cup — OKJ 31st
WSK Super Master Series — OKJ 40th
Coupe de France — OKJ 22nd
Italian Championship — OKJ 10th
CIK-FIA European Championship — OKJ Tony Kart Racing Team 7th
WSK Euro Series — OKJ 11th
CIK-FIA World Championship — OKJ NC
2020 WSK Euro Series — OK DR Srl 57th
CIK-FIA European Championship — OK Birel ART Racing Srl 25th
Champions of the Future — OK 21st
CIK-FIA World Championship — OK Energy Corse Srl 26th
WSK Open Cup — OK 17th
Sources:[92][93]
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Complete CIK-FIA Karting European Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

More information Year, Team ...
Year Team Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DC Points
2018 Forza Racing OKJ SAR
QH
40
SAR
R
DNQ
PFI
QH
18
PFI
R
24
AMP
QH
23
AMP
R
19
LEM
QH
9
LEM
R
28
37th 2
2019 Tony Kart Racing Team OKJ ANG
QH
12
ANG
R
7
GEN
QH
2
GEN
R
2
KRI
QH
12
KRI
R
11
LEM
QH
12
LEM
R
29
7th 43
2020 Birel ART Racing Srl OK ZUE
QH
8
ZUE
R
33
SAR
QH
12
SAR
R
22
WAC
QH
WAC
R
25th 3
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Racing record

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Racing career summary

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Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2021 F4 Spanish Championship Pinnacle Motorsport 9 0 1 0 1 30 16th
ADAC Formula 4 Championship US Racing 8 0 2 3 2 76 8th
2022 F4 British Championship Hitech Grand Prix 27 11 11 11 17 412 1st
Formula 4 UAE Championship 20 2 0 1 4 168 6th
Formula 4 UAE Championship - Trophy Round 2 0 1 0 1 N/A NC
Italian F4 Championship US Racing 20 3 1 3 11 258 2nd
2023 GB3 Championship Hitech Grand Prix 23 5 1 8 7 466 2nd
Macau Grand Prix Hitech Pulse-Eight 1 0 0 0 0 N/A DNF
2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship MP Motorsport 20 0 0 0 2 50 14th
Macau Grand Prix SJM Theodore Prema Racing 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 6th
2024–25 Formula E NEOM McLaren Formula E Team Reserve driver
2025 FIA Formula 2 Championship Rodin Motorsport 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD
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Complete F4 Spanish Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

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Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Pos Points
2021 Pinnacle Motorsport SPA
1

3
SPA
2

5
SPA
3

25
NAV
1

14
NAV
2

14
NAV
3

7
ALG
1

10
ALG
2

15
ALG
3

Ret
ARA
1
ARA
2
ARA
3
CRT
1
CRT
2
CRT
3
JER
1
JER
2
JER
3
CAT
1
CAT
2
CAT
3
16th 30
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Complete ADAC Formula 4 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

More information Year, Team ...
Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Pos Points
2021 US Racing RBR
1
RBR
2
RBR
3
ZAN
1
ZAN
2
ZAN
3
HOC1
1

2
HOC1
2

2
HOC1
3

DNS
SAC
1
SAC
2
SAC
3
HOC2
1

Ret
HOC2
2

4
HOC2
3

4
NÜR
1

4
NÜR
2

15†
NÜR
3

8
8th 76
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Complete F4 UAE Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

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Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pos Points
2022 Hitech Grand Prix YMC1
1

4
YMC1
2

9
YMC1
3

23
YMC1
4

10
DUB1
1

9
DUB1
2

6
DUB1
3

6
DUB1
4

21
DUB2
1

8
DUB2
2

8
DUB2
3

8
DUB2
4

1
DUB3
1

4
DUB3
2

3
DUB3
3

7
DUB3
4

9
YMC2
1

4
YMC2
2

5
YMC2
3

1
YMC2
4

3
6th 168
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Complete F4 British Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

More information Year, Team ...
Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 DC Points
2022 Hitech Grand Prix DON
1

1
DON
2

27
DON
3

1
BHI
1

1
BHI
2

14
BHI
3

14
THR1
1

1
THR1
2

55
THR1
3

1
OUL
1

1
OUL
2

91
OUL
3

3
CRO
1

7
CRO
2

11
CRO
3

3
KNO
1

2
KNO
2

4
KNO
3

14
SNE
1

1
SNE
2

64
SNE
3

1
THR2
1

1
THR2
2

10
THR2
3

1
SIL
1

3
SIL
2

11
SIL
3

3
BHGP
1
BHGP
2
BHGP
3
1st 412
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Complete Italian F4 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

More information Year, Team ...
Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DC Points
2022 US Racing IMO
1

2
IMO
2

1
IMO
3

3
MIS
1

3
MIS
2

33†
MIS
3

7
SPA
1

10
SPA
2

2
SPA
3

5
VLL
1

4
VLL
2

4
VLL
3

Ret
RBR
1

1
RBR
2

3
RBR
3
RBR
4

1
MNZ
1

2
MNZ
2

6
MNZ
3

C
MUG
1

2
MUG
2

2
MUG
3

Ret
2nd 258
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Complete GB3 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

More information Year, Team ...
Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 DC Points
2023 Hitech Grand Prix OUL
1

6
OUL
2

13
OUL
3

109
SIL1
1

4
SIL1
2

Ret
SIL1
3

612
SPA
1

1
SPA
2

1
SPA
3

618
SNE
1

4
SNE
2

2
SNE
3

129
SIL2
1

5
SIL2
2

6
SIL2
3

C
BRH
1

Ret
BRH
2

4
BRH
3

118
ZAN
1

1
ZAN
2

1
ZAN
3

168
DON
1

3
DON
2

1
DON
3

911
2nd 466
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Complete Macau Grand Prix results

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Year Team Car Qualifying Quali Race Main race
2023 United Kingdom Hitech Pulse-Eight Dallara F3 2019 6th 2nd DNF
2024 Hong Kong SJM Theodore Prema Racing Tatuus F3 T-318 18th 12th 6th
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Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

More information Year, Entrant ...
Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DC Points
2024 MP Motorsport BHR
SPR

12
BHR
FEA

9
MEL
SPR

7
MEL
FEA

16
IMO
SPR

14
IMO
FEA

16
MON
SPR

Ret
MON
FEA

16
CAT
SPR

2
CAT
FEA

7
RBR
SPR

4
RBR
FEA

10
SIL
SPR

22
SIL
FEA

Ret
HUN
SPR

20
HUN
FEA

16
SPA
SPR

23
SPA
FEA

10
MNZ
SPR

3
MNZ
FEA

4
14th 50
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Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

More information Year, Entrant ...
Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 DC Points
2025 Rodin Motorsport MEL
SPR

MEL
FEA

BHR
SPR

BHR
FEA

JED
SPR

JED
FEA

IMO
SPR

IMO
FEA

MON
SPR

MON
FEA

CAT
SPR

CAT
FEA

RBR
SPR

RBR
FEA

SIL
SPR

SIL
FEA

SPA
SPR

SPA
FEA

HUN
SPR

HUN
FEA

MNZ
SPR

MNZ
FEA

BAK
SPR

BAK
FEA

LSL
SPR

LSL
FEA

YMC
SPR

YMC
FEA

TBD TBD
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