Arvid Lindblad is a British-Swedish racing prodigy who competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Campos Racing as part of the Red Bull Junior Team. Equal parts precision, flair, and teenage fearlessness, Lindblad rapidly carved out a reputation as one of the most exciting young drivers in motorsport. He was finally rewarded with a seat at Racing Bulls for the 2026 season.
| Nationality | British |
|---|---|
| Born | Arvid Anand Olof Lindblad 8 August 2007 Virginia Water, Surrey, England |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in / 1.73m |
| Weight | – |
Born in Virginia Water, England, to a Swedish father and an Indian-heritage mother, Lindblad grew up surrounded by speed. He hopped onto a motocross bike at three, graduated into karting at seven, and immediately began hoarding trophies across national and European competitions. Mentored from age nine by future Formula E World Champion Oliver Rowland, Lindblad stormed through the junior ranks: Italian F4 in 2022 and 2023 (finishing third in the latter with Prema), victory in the Formula 4 race at the Macau Grand Prix in 2023, and a standout rookie FIA Formula 3 campaign in 2024. He then clinched his first championship title in the 2025 Formula Regional Oceania season before jumping into FIA Formula 2 for 2025 — promptly becoming the youngest race winner the series had ever seen.
A Red Bull Junior from 2021, Lindblad made his Formula One debut with Racing Bulls in 2026.
Racing Career
Karting: 2015–2022
Lindblad’s karting journey began at age five at Daytona Sandown Park in Esher, and by 2015 he was racing competitively. At just nine, Oliver Rowland took him under his wing, kickstarting a rapid rise through the karting ranks.
In 2020, Lindblad captured the WSK Super Master Series title in the OKJ category. The following year, after joining the Red Bull Junior Team, he doubled up with victories in both the WSK Euro Series and the WSK Final Cup in OK machinery. He stepped into shifter karts in 2022, though the year was marred by a heavy crash during the Champions of the Future Winter Series, where a qualifying-heat incident left him with a broken thumb and significant tissue damage.
Formula 4: 2022–2023
Lindblad debuted in cars with Van Amersfoort Racing in the 2022 Italian F4 season, joining for the fifth round after extensive testing. He immediately found his footing, recording three points finishes — including a best result of seventh — and ending the year 17th with 12 points.
2023: First Wins Arrive
F4 UAE
For his first full campaign of 2023, Lindblad joined Hitech Grand Prix in the F4 UAE Championship. He announced himself immediately with his maiden F4 win in race 3 of the Dubai opener, holding off Ferrari Driver Academy talent Tuukka Taponen from pole. A dip in form followed, but he capped the campaign with a podium at Yas Marina and finished the series in fifth.
Italian F4
Lindblad’s main 2023 programme was with Prema Racing in Italian F4. He launched the season in style, winning at Imola and adding two more podiums. Misano delivered a brace of victories, and at Monza he swept all three races — giving him an 80-plus-point championship lead. However, a late-season slump from the car’s pace left him podium-less in the final three rounds, and he ultimately finished third behind Kacper Sztuka and teammate Ugo Ugochukwu.
Euro 4
Running selected Euro 4 events, Lindblad started strongly with pole at Mugello and finished fourth. He claimed his sole Euro 4 victory at Monza and added another podium in Barcelona, taking fourth overall in the standings.
Macau F4 Race
In November, Lindblad contested the Formula 4 South East Asia Championship round at the Macau Grand Prix with Prema. After a wild qualifying session, he secured pole, dominated the qualification race, and controlled the main race to win decisively. His Macau heroics earned him a place as a finalist for the prestigious Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Award.
Formula Three: 2024–2025
Formula Regional Middle East
Ahead of his rookie F3 campaign, Lindblad ran the opening three rounds of Formula Regional Middle East with Mumbai Falcons. He impressed immediately with a reverse-grid win in Yas Marina and ended the short programme 13th overall.
FIA Formula 3
Signed by Prema Racing in late 2023, Lindblad entered the 2024 FIA Formula 3 season alongside Gabriele Minì and Dino Beganovic. He opened his account in Bahrain with a strategic masterclass in the sprint race, carving through late on to win by five seconds. Solid feature-race points followed.
In Melbourne, Lindblad stormed to second in the sprint with a flurry of clean overtakes, and though tyre struggles hampered him in the feature, he banked more valuable points. A tidy weekend in Imola followed, but Monaco delivered his first retirement after a first-lap pile-up in the sprint. He rebounded the next day with a then-best feature result of fourth.
Barcelona brought a championship-changing moment: a front-row start, ninth in the sprint, and a commanding feature-race victory — making him the youngest feature-race winner in FIA F3 history. More front-row pace arrived in Austria, though the sprint ended early with a puncture and the feature was compromised by contact.
Then came Silverstone, the jewel of his season. Lindblad dominated the sprint after dispatching Noel León, and in the feature he gambled for slick tyres on a drying track during the formation lap — a decision that proved decisive. He charged to second on the road and inherited the win after Callum Voisin’s penalty, becoming the first driver ever to win both races of an FIA F3 weekend. That double vaulted him to second in the championship with three rounds to go.
Unfortunately, a trio of difficult qualifying sessions at Hungary, Spa, and Monza stalled his momentum. Incidents with Matías Zagazeta and Christian Mansell ended two feature races, and a collision with Voisin at Monza dropped him from ninth to 16th. He ultimately finished fourth overall but ended the year as the highest-scoring rookie, while helping Prema secure a third consecutive teams’ title. He was again named an Autosport BRDC Award finalist.
Formula Regional Oceania: 2025
Preparing for Formula 2, Lindblad contested the Formula Regional Oceania Championship with M2 Competition. He began in style with podiums in all three Taupo races, including a pole and a win. Hampton Downs delivered two poles and two victories, extending his early streak.
He won race 1 at Manfeild, though a chaotic wet race 2 saw his podium run end with a 14th-place finish. He immediately bounced back by taking his fifth pole and fifth win of the season. At Teretonga Park, he took another pole, set fastest lap, finished second in race 1, placed sixth in race 2, and won race 3 — stretching his lead to 59 points.
At Highlands Motorsport Park, Lindblad sealed the championship by finishing ahead of Nikita Johnson and Zack Scoular in race 1. He retired from the second race after being caught in a multi-car pile-up but ended the season strongly with third in the New Zealand Grand Prix. His debut title tally: six wins, 370 points, and 18 FIA Super Licence points.
FIA Formula 2: 2025
Lindblad confirmed his step up to FIA Formula 2 with Campos Racing in September 2024. On March 2025 race day in Jeddah, at just 17 years and 254 days, he powered to victory in the sprint race — becoming the youngest winner in F2 history. Six weeks later in Barcelona he added another record, taking pole as the second-youngest in series history (behind Théo Pourchaire) and converting it into a home-race feature win for Campos.
Formula One Career
Lindblad’s relationship with Red Bull began in 2021 during his karting years, with full Junior Team status arriving in 2022. He sampled F1 machinery publicly for the first time in September 2024, driving the Red Bull RB8 at a Houston showrun. In early 2025 he completed a private test of the AlphaTauri AT04 at Imola, followed by another mid-year test alongside Ayumu Iwasa.
In June 2025, he even squeezed in a light-hearted show at Elland Road, driving the RB7 against three Leeds United players — Willy Gnonto, Largie Ramazani and Isaac Schmidt — who were competing on foot.
Following a special exemption from the FIA, Lindblad was granted his Super Licence aged 17, mirroring Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s earlier approval. He returned to the AT04 for further Imola running, ahead of his Formula One free-practice debut for Red Bull at the British Grand Prix, where he set 14th-fastest time. He later appeared in FP1 at the 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix in place of Max Verstappen, finishing an impressive sixth in the session.
Racing Bulls: 2026
On 2 December 2025, Racing Bulls announced that Arvid Lindblad would join the team for the 2026 Formula One season, partnering Liam Lawson and beginning the next chapter of one of motorsport’s most exciting young careers.
Arvid Lindblad Formula One World Championship career
| F1 Career | 2026–Ongoing |
|---|---|
| Teams | Racing Bulls |
| Driver Number | 41 |
| Entries | Ongoing |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Career points | Ongoing |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| First entry | 2026 Australian Grand Prix |
| Last entry | Ongoing |
Arvid Lindblad Teammates
| 3 drivers | Involvement | First Year | Last Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuki Tsunoda | 3 | 2025 | |
| Max Verstappen | 3 | 2025 | |
| Liam Lawson | 24 | 2026 |
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