Arvid Lindblad has defended his practice crash at F1’s recent Spanish Grand Prix, insisting that as a rookie, he is “allowed to make” such mistakes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Racing Bulls driver crashed at Turn 13 during second practice at Madrid, having set the fourth-fastest time in the session, before going onto qualify in 10th place – his 10th Q3 appearance in 14 races.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In the race, Lindblad finished in ninth for his ninth points finish of his rookie season, and his eighth in the last nine races, since a DNS in Canada.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
His best result has been sixth in Monaco in a strong season for Racing Bulls, as the Briton defended his right to make mistakes such as the FP2 shunt in Madrid, which impacted the right-hand side of the car.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I lost a lot of confidence, which is so important on a street track, missed basically all of FP3, and wasn’t happy in qualifying, but I managed to put a lap together and put it in Q3,” Lindblad told media, including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I definitely think that if I hadn’t had the crash, the trajectory to qualifying would have been very different, and I would have been a lot happier.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It is something to learn from, and in the end, I am not going to beat myself up for crashing because it is something that is inevitable.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I’ve been so on the limit this year, I’ve been so fast, and it was my 10th Q3 [appearance] of the season.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I am allowed to make mistakes, and I am going to learn from it.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tLindblad’s bouncing back<\/p>\n
As he impresses in his rookie season, Lindblad also pointed to the fact that he felt he had shown he was able to overcome adversity when it struck.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I think it is good, and that I’ve shown again, and I’ve shown all year, that when things get difficult, I can still bounce back,” he continued.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“[It was] in Japan, there was an issue in Budapest and the same [in Madrid], this time it was a bit more of my own fault, but I am happy with how we bounced back. It wasn’t easy.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arvid Lindblad has defended his practice crash at F1’s recent Spanish Grand Prix, insisting that as a rookie,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897257,"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-897256","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\/897256","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=897256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}