Arvid Lindblad
Born on 8 August 2007 in Virginia Water, Surrey, Arvid Lindblad is a British racing driver of Swedish and British-Indian heritage who joined Racing Bulls on the Formula 1 grid in 2026.
Mentored from the age of nine by Formula E champion Oliver Rowland – who created his own team to support Lindblad’s karting career – the teenager became one of the most closely watched prospects in the Red Bull junior pipeline.
Early racing career
Lindblad’s motor sport journey began at Daytona Sandown Park, Esher, aged just five. After progressing rapidly through British karting, he claimed the 2018 Super 1 National Championships IAME Cadet title with Oliver Rowland Motorsport.
He signed for the Red Bull Junior Team in 2021, aged just 13, after catching the eye of Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko with a runner-up finish in the FIA Karting European Championship.
That year, he added the WSK Euro Series and WSK Final Cup titles in the OK class to his collection, cementing his reputation as one of Europe’s most gifted young karters.
Single-seaters
Lindblad made his single-seater debut with Van Amersfoort Racing in Italian F4 in 2022, joining mid-season aged 15 and scoring 12 points from just eight races. He stepped up to a full campaign in 2023 with Prema, and was imperious early on – winning six races including a clean sweep at Monza – before a late-season slump allowed Kacper Sztuka and team-mate Ugo Ugochukwu to overhaul him, leaving Lindblad third in the standings.
He capped his F4 career in style at the Macau Grand Prix circuit, where he took pole, won the qualification race and dominated the main event from lights to flag.
Placed with Prema in FIA Formula 3 for 2024, Lindblad instantly made history by becoming the series’ youngest-ever winner on his debut in Bahrain, aged 16 years and 206 days.
He secured four wins across the season, including a historic double at Silverstone – becoming the first driver in the current F3 format to win both races in a single weekend.
However, the familiar pattern of late-season struggles resurfaced; Lindblad failed to score in the final six races and finished fourth in the standings, despite ending the year as the highest-scoring rookie and helping Prema to the teams’ title.
Before graduating to F2, Lindblad was sent to New Zealand in early 2025 to race in the Formula Regional Oceania Championship with M2 Competition – primarily to secure the FIA superlicence points needed for an F1 race seat. He dominated the series, taking six wins, six pole positions and 12 podiums from 15 races to clinch the title comfortably, earning the required 18 points in the process.
Formula 2
Lindblad joined Campos Racing for the 2025 F2 season alongside fellow Red Bull junior Pepe Marti. He made an immediate mark in Jeddah, becoming F2’s youngest-ever race winner at just 17 years and 254 days after inheriting the sprint victory.
A feature race win from pole in Barcelona – where he became the second-youngest polesitter in F2 history – represented another high point, as did a final sprint victory in Abu Dhabi.
True to the pattern of his junior career, the second half of the season proved difficult – including a disqualification at Spa for tyre pressure infringements despite crossing the line second – and he finished sixth in the standings on 134 points with three wins from five podiums.
Formula 1
Despite a F2 campaign that was at times underwhelming, Red Bull accelerated Lindblad into Formula 1 for the new 2026 technical regulations era, signing him to Racing Bulls alongside Liam Lawson.
He made his grand prix debut in Australia aged 18, qualifying ninth and finishing eighth.
