Racing Bulls crew principal Alan Permane was impressed with rookie driver Arvid Lindblad through the Barcelona shakedown from 26-30 January, revealing that he noticed many similarities between the 18-year-old and Isack Hadjar.
Hadjar drove for Racing Bulls throughout his rookie season in 2025 earlier than securing a spot alongside four-time champion Max Verstappen at Crimson Bull. Lindblad will now line up beside Liam Lawson at Crimson Bull’s sister crew after ending sixth within the System 2 standings.
“Very impressed with each. He’s very calm, he’s very cool – nothing appears to faze him,” Permane mentioned, by way of F1.com, of Lindblad after the personal testing in Barcelona.
“He’s somewhat bit like I described Isack final 12 months – he simply desires to be taught, he simply desires to absorb as a lot info as he can. He’s asking heaps and many questions, he’s asking a number of recommendation – how ought to he do that, how ought to he try this?
“After which after all we’re serving to him all the best way. An important factor – the tempo – it seems to be prefer it’s there. The 2 guys are very related, to date so good.”
Racing Bulls chief technical officer Tim Goss added: “He’s actually calm, actually skilled, suggestions is absolutely simple. For somebody so younger, it’s actually, actually spectacular. His session within the automobile has actually simply been about attending to grips with this breed of automobile.
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“They’re very, very totally different, not simply the final dealing with of the automobile however the best way you’ve simply bought to handle the vitality and the vitality administration, and he’s simply been actually, actually cool, calm, skilled.
“As we’re attending to grips with the steadiness of the automobile, his suggestions has simply been actually easy, actually clear, so [we’re] actually, actually impressed with him.”
Additional testing will happen in Bahrain subsequent week from 11-13 February and once more from 18-20 February.
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