{"id":845064,"date":"2026-08-06T01:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845064\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:58:12","slug":"f1-news-2026-arvid-lindblad-wants-to-race-in-supercars-comments-v8-supercars-news-bathurst-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845064\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 news 2026: Arvid Lindblad wants to race in Supercars, comments; V8 Supercars news, Bathurst 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Racing Bulls<\/a> rookie Arvid Lindblad has become the latest F1<\/a> star to share a dream of one day racing Down Under in Supercars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Autosport, the Brit said he hoped to emulate four-time world champion Max Verstappen<\/a> and compete in other categories while still racing in F1, but said he could see himself competing full-time in IndyCar<\/a> and Supercars after his F1 career wraps up.<\/p>\n

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F1 driver Arvid Lindblad poses in front of the Ford Mustang Supercar ahead of his run at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, I want a long Formula 1 career. I\u2019d like to stay here for 10 or 15 years,\u201d Lindblad said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce that chapter is over, I\u2019d like to try completely different experiences. I\u2019d love to race in IndyCar for a few seasons. I\u2019d like to try the Australian Supercars championship and explore other forms of motorsport that interest me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world of racing is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lindblad has had two tastes already of Supercars machinery. The first came in New Zealand in early 2025 when he drove a Chevrolet Camaro previously raced by Shane van Gisbergen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then last month, he drove a Ford Mustang at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in central England as a part of a broader Red Bull demonstration. He performed a series of doughnuts and burnouts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was fun. It\u2019s such a great noise \u2013 it\u2019s so loud. A lot of power. Sequential gearbox, so it\u2019s quite cool to be able to pull the gears,\u201d Lindblad said at the time.<\/p>\n

The only rookie on this year\u2019s F1 grid, Lindblad has been a surprise performer. He sits 11th in the championship with 23 points, only two spots lower than teammate Liam Lawson<\/a> (43 points). He has a best finish of seventh at the British Grand Prix<\/a> at Silverstone last month.<\/p>\n

He has finished in the points in each of the last six grands prix, with only Lewis Hamilton<\/a> (12) and Isack Hadjar (seven) on longer points-scoring streaks.<\/p>\n

Several current and former F1 stars have had a taste of Supercars machinery, including Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo<\/a>, Pierre Gasly<\/a>, Esteban Ocon<\/a> and Oscar Piastri<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alex Rossi was the last driver with F1 experience to race in Supercars. He competed in five grands prix for the now-defunct Manor team in 2015, and then drove in the Bathurst 1000<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n

F1 is in the midst of its four-week mid-season break, which includes two weeks of mandatory stand-down. The season continues at the Dutch Grand Prix<\/a> \u2013 a sprint meeting \u2013 on the weekend of August 21-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing Bulls rookie Arvid Lindblad has become the latest F1 star to share a dream of one day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-845064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845064","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=845064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}