{"id":403033,"date":"2026-01-10T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403033\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:03:08","slug":"arvid-lindblad-f1-driver-for-racing-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403033\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvid Lindblad &#8211; F1 Driver for Racing Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The sole rookie on the 2026 grid, Arvid Lindblad is the latest Red Bull prot\u00e9g\u00e9 to get his shot at the F1 bigtime following the rapid promotion of his Racing Bulls predecessor Isack Hadjar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">British teenager Lindblad (the name, like his father, is Swedish) has made plenty of waves in the junior ranks in recent seasons, becoming the youngest ever race winner in both Formula 3 and Formula 2, aged just 16 and 17 respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">That followed success in national and international karting, including winning the prestigious WSK Euro Series \u2013 joining the likes of Charles Leclerc and Kimi Antonelli \u2013 in 2021, his first full year of competition as part of Red Bull\u2019s junior programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">And after impressing the likes of Laurent Mekies and Helmut Marko in Testing of Previous Car (TPC) runs with Red Bull in 2025 \u2013 as well as two FP1 appearances for the team \u2013 Lindblad has now been given his chance to race in the top echelon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sole rookie on the 2026 grid, Arvid Lindblad is the latest Red Bull prot\u00e9g\u00e9 to get his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-403033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403033","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=403033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}