Reigning Formula E world champion Oliver Rowland who is also Arvid Lindblad’s manager and mentor, has revealed how impressed he was in the driver’s recent F1 first practice performance in Mexico City.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lindblad has been widely reported as a likely Racing Bulls driver next season, with Red Bull having put the young driver through an intense programme in preparation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Several TPC tests (Testing of Previous Cars) have been conducted by Lindblad, who has also made first practice appearances for Red Bull\u00a0<\/p>\n
His most recent was in Mexico City, where he replaced four-time world champion Oliver Rowland. Lindblad excelled and ended the session in sixth, one-tenth quicker than Yuki Tsunoda.<\/p>\n
A “nervous” Rowland watched the session from Valencia due to being in Spain for Formula E pre-season testing, and was amazed by how impressive his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked for his thoughts on Lindblad’s performance, Rowland told RacingNews365 during an interview: “I think he did a great job. It’s not an easy task jumping in Max’s car, being instructed that you under no circumstances, can damage the car on a tricky track like Mexico, with low grip and a high track evolution.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But I think he did a mega job. He always impresses me in those situations where I felt I was watching the session in Valencia and I felt tense and nervous, and he just seemed to take it in a stride and get on with it, which is a great thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“And yeah, to draw comparisons isn’t fair on anybody, and I wouldn’t do that. So, yeah, I think he did a great job, and we just need to get focused on him developing.”<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tLindblad’s thoughts<\/p>\n
The Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is a venue traditionally used by teams to field rookie drivers, as was the case in the recent event \u2013 Stake F1 was the only outfit not to field a rookie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While it is a popular destination for rookies to make an appearance, it is also a very challenging one due to how dusty the circuit always is at the start of a grand prix.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, Lindblad felt he could have done better in some areas, but that the 18-year-old was largely pleased with how he performed.<\/p>\n
Discussing what Lindblad thought of the Mexico session, Rowland explained: “It’s tricky. I have spoken to him about the session and about other things since, I think he was happy with how he did.<\/p>\n
“I think he felt like he could have done some stuff better, which is always his way of thinking, which is great, because he’s always looking to be better.<\/p>\n
“To say he’s made progress, he’s not driven it much. So I don’t really want to say anything on his behalf, but I think he did a really solid, mature job. And I hope the team appreciate that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning Formula E world champion Oliver Rowland who is also Arvid Lindblad’s manager and mentor, has revealed how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-254312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}