Arvid Lindblad is bracing for a tricky Components 1 debut in 2026, following recommendation from Racing Bulls staff bosses Alan Permane and Peter Bayer.
Snapped up by Pink Bull in his profitable karting days again in January 2021, Lindblad has since ascended the single-seater pyramid swiftly, although he gained only one championship: Components Regional Oceania, previously generally known as the Toyota Racing Sequence, final 12 months.
A sole Components 2 marketing campaign, wherein he took three victories in 23 races on his technique to sixth within the championship, was sufficient to persuade Pink Bull to offer him an opportunity at Racing Bulls alongside Liam Lawson – on the expense of Yuki Tsunoda, who has misplaced his place on the grid altogether after struggling to match Max Verstappen all through 2025.
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Lindblad would be the solely rookie within the discipline as F1 strikes to brand-new technical laws on each the chassis and engine sides, and the 18-year-old Briton has been warned by Permane and Bayer that being aggressive from the get-go could be a tall order.
“The recommendation [from them has been that] issues are going to be tough,” Lindblad advised Formula1.com in Abu Dhabi. “I should not be naive. I am very conscious of the truth that it is going to be a giant problem. It will likely be a extremely massive step up.
“There’s a number of work I’ve to do over the following coming months previous to Barcelona,” he added, with pre-season testing getting below approach on the Catalan observe from 26-30 January.
“However even then, throughout all of the assessments, in the course of the first a part of the season, there’s going to be a number of issues for me to be studying up to the mark on. Even additionally on the staff aspect, there might be that as properly, as a result of it is going to be a lot that’s new. We’re all going to must be taught and develop collectively.
“It is nearly being open-minded. It is nothing I already do not know, that I want to simply work laborious and hold centered on myself.”
Arvid Lindblad, Campos Racing
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What makes Lindblad assured is his trajectory in junior formulae, the place he spent simply three and a half years, taking fourth in F3 and sixth in F2 as a rookie.
He was the most effective debutant within the former, although he was overwhelmed by fellow freshmen Leonardo Fornaroli, Luke Browning and Alex Dunne in F2 – however amongst these three, solely Dunne had the same degree of (in)expertise in single-seaters.
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“I’ve come by way of the ranks fairly rapidly,” Lindblad identified.
“I’ve simply been in every class one 12 months, so yearly I am used to being thrown within the deep finish. For certain on that aspect it’ll assist [adapt to F1] as a result of I am used to being on this scenario.
“However however, I have not finished Components 1 but so I do not know what’s coming. We have to see and I must be open-minded and work laborious, as a result of this step would be the greatest one I’ve handled up to now.”
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