Racing Bulls has launched a behind-the-scenes video documenting Arvid Lindblad’s first dwelling Components 1 weekend at Silverstone, because the British driver heads into the summer season break sitting eleventh within the championship.
Lindblad has had a powerful begin to his rookie F1 marketing campaign. He scored 4 factors with an eighth-place end on the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and has continued to gather factors in six grands prix since then.
The Monaco and British Grands Prix marked his finest outcomes thus far with seventh-place finishes at each occasions. But it surely was the Silverstone race weekend that was notably emotional for the 18-year-old.
The video supplied perception into the extra media obligations that Lindblad had within the week main as much as the race, together with a number of podcasts, interviews and radio present appearances. Whereas chatting with the Capital FM crew throughout an off-air second, Lindblad joked about it now being time to get his driving licence.
“I must get it performed as a result of it has been introduced up an excessive amount of,” he stated. “At first, I did not want it. Whereas now, it is getting to a degree the place I truly need it as a result of, virtually, it is turning into annoying.
“There are solely so many Ubers you may get, so many occasions I can ask my mum. She’s having to take outing of her day to take me to the airport. So, I am truly making an attempt to get it performed now as a result of I really feel dangerous.”
As he walked by means of London from the radio present to an Esses meet-and-greet, the Racing Bulls driver mirrored on his first radio look. “First time on a correct radio present. It was fairly cool. I’ve listened to Capital and Coronary heart quite a bit after I was within the automobile with my mum on the best way to highschool. So to be on it myself is fairly good.”
The crew then headed to the monitor for media day, the place Lindblad joined Lawson to movie some social media content material, earlier than taking to the Fan Zone stage alongside the opposite British drivers.
The video additionally supplied followers a have a look at the LEGO automobile race, the goings-on within the storage through the race, and the post-race celebrations.
F1 resumes with the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort from 21 to 23 August.
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