Arvid Lindblad, who will probably be becoming a member of the Formulation 1 grid as the one rookie in 2026, has detailed his journey to the championship and the way he began his motorsport profession in motocross.
The Briton has swiftly risen via the ranks, coming into Italian Formulation 4 in 2022. He has since raced in F4 UAE and Euro 4 in 2023, Formulation Regional Center East and Formulation 3 in 2024 and Formulation Regional Oceania and Formulation 2 in 2025.
“It has been my dream to be in F1 since I began this journey once I was 5, so having that come true may be very particular,” Lindblad instructed Motorsport.com in an unique interview.
“I do not come from a motorsport background. It was actually a ardour that I drove myself. After I was three, my dad put me on a motocross bike for the primary time as a result of he’d finished a tiny bit when he was youthful. That did not final very lengthy, because it was a bit an excessive amount of for my mum. However then I went karting for the primary time once I was 5, and I simply cherished it immediately.
“After the primary time, I already knew it was one thing I needed to do. My earliest racing reminiscences are from once I was 4, once I sat down and watched F1 with my dad. And I keep in mind asking, ‘How do I get there sooner or later? Is it attainable? What do it’s important to do?’”
Arvid Lindblad, Racing Bulls
Photograph by: Clive Rose / Formulation 1 through Getty Pictures
He added: “I do not actually know why — possibly I used to be a bit naive — however I simply had this inside perception that I would be there. Not in an conceited means; it was extra like I knew I needed to be in F1 and I used to be going to do something to make that occur. From the second I began, I by no means envisioned a future the place I wasn’t. I all the time believed that I might be in F1.”
Lindblad joined the Purple Bull Junior Crew as a Purple Bull-supported driver in 2021 when he was nonetheless in karting, earlier than he grew to become a full member in 2022 on the age of 14.
Throughout his F2 marketing campaign with Campos Racing, he grew to become the youngest race winner on the Jeddah dash and the second-youngest polesitter at Barcelona.
Lindblad will be part of Racing Bulls to drive alongside Liam Lawson in 2026 as Isack Hadjar strikes to the seat beside four-time champion Max Verstappen.
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