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Arvid Lindblad

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Arvid Lindblad
Lindblad driving the Dallara F3 2019 during the 2024 Spielberg Formula 3 round
Born (2007-08-08) 8 August 2007 (age 17)
Virginia Water, Surrey, England
NationalityUnited Kingdom British
Sweden Swedish
via dual nationality
FIA Formula 2 Championship career
Debut season2025
Current teamCampos
Car number3
Starts0 (0 entries)
Wins0
Podiums0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finishTBD in 2025
Previous series
Championship titles
2023Macau F4 Race

Arvid Lindblad (born 8 August 2007) is a British and Swedish racing driver, who is set to compete in the 2025 FIA Formula 2 Championship for Campos.

Born and raised in Virginia Water to a Swedish father and a mother of Indian heritage, Lindblad began competitive kart racing aged seven, winning several national and continental titles. A protégé of Oliver Rowland, Lindblad graduated to junior formulae aged 15, competing in Italian F4 from 2022 to 2023, and finishing third in the latter with Prema. After winning in Formula 4 at the 2023 Macau Grand Prix, Lindblad progressed to FIA Formula 3 in 2024, achieving four wins and placing fourth in the standings. Lindblad is set to graduate to FIA Formula 2 with Campos for the 2025 season.

A member of the Red Bull Junior Team since 2021, Lindblad completed his first Formula One showrun in September 2024, driving the Red Bull RB8 in Houston.

Early and personal life

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Arvid Lindblad was born on 8 August 2007 in Virginia Water, Surrey, England. His father, Stefan Lindblad, is Swedish, while his mother, Anita Ahuja, is of Indian heritage, making him mixed-race.[1][2] Lindblad was raised in Virginia Water and educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford.[1][2]

Lindblad was first involved in motorsport when he was gifted a motocross bike aged three.[1]

Career

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Karting

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Lindblad first started karting aged five at Daytona Sandown Park in Esher.[1] He progress to competitive kart racing in 2015.[3] Aged nine, Lindblad was taken under the wing of Oliver Rowland.[1] In 2020 he won the WSK Super Master Series in the OKJ class.[4] Signing to the Red Bull Junior Team in 2021,[5] he won the WSK Euro Series and the WSK Final Cup for OK karts.[6][7] In the 2022 Champions of the Future Winter Series kart race he crashed out during qualifying heat due to contact and suffered a broken thumb and extensive tissue damage.[8][9]

Formula 4

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2022

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Lindblad driving in the 2022 Italian F4 Championship at the Red Bull Ring

In 2022 Lindblad made his debut single-seater racing by joining Van Amersfoort Racing ahead of the fifth round of the Italian F4 Championship after testing outside of race weekends throughout the year.[10][11][12]

2023

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Lindblad driving in the 2023 Italian F4 Championship at Mugello Circuit

For the 2023 Italian F4 Championship he joined Prema Racing.[3] Ahead of the season he also joined Hitech Grand Prix to compete in the Formula 4 UAE Championship.[13] In race 3 of the opening round Lindblad took his first Formula 4 win and ultimately finished the season in fifth.[14][15] In the Italian championship Lindblad also got off to a great start, taking six wins from the first four rounds. After winning all three races at Monza Circuit he opened up his championship lead to over 80 points.[16] After struggling for pace at Mugello Circuit he lost his championship lead and ultimately finished the championship in third behind Kacper Sztuka and Ugo Ugochukwu.[15][17]

In November Lindblad joined Prema to compete in the Formula 4 South East Asia Championship round at the Macau Grand Prix Circuit where he’d win both races.[18]

FIA Formula 3 Championship

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In October 2023, Lindblad signed to race with Prema Racing in the 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship, partnering single-seater champions Gabriele Minì and Dino Beganovic.[15] Lindblad got off to a great start by winning the Bahrain sprint race and picking up 2nd place in the Australia sprint race.

Lindblad continued to pick up points in Imola and Monaco before he took his first feature race victory in Spain. In July 2024, he became the first driver to do the double (Sprint and Feature Race win) at Silverstone, his home race. The double win promoted him to 2nd in the championship 6 points behind teammate Gabriele Mini with 3 rounds to go putting Lindblad firmly in the title fight.

However that would be Lindblad's last points of the season as a string of poor qualifying results at Hungary and Spa and the season finale in Monza resulted in Lindblad failing to score points in all of the last 6 races of the season meaning he finished the season 4th in the championship with 113 points, 40 points behind champion Leonardo Fornaroli. Despite this Lindblad ended the 2024 F3 season as the highest scoring rookie as well as taking 4 race wins, 1 other podium and 1 fastest lap and helping his team Prema win the teams championship scoring 32.19 percent of the teams total points that season.

FIA Formula 2 Championship

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In September 2024, Lindblad announced that he would be promoted to Formula 2 with Campos Racing for 2025.[19]

Formula One

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For the 2021 season Lindblad joined the Red Bull Junior Team as a Red Bull-supported driver.[8][20] Ahead of the 2022 season he became a full member of the Red Bull Junior Team.[7] Lindblad completed his first Formula One showrun in September 2024, driving the Red Bull RB8 in Houston.[21]

Karting record

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Karting career summary

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Season Series Team Position
2015 LGM Series — IAME Cadet 48th
2016 LGM Series — IAME Cadet 21st
Kartmasters British Grand Prix — Honda Cadet 8th
Kartmasters British Grand Prix — IAME Cadet 16th
Super 1 National Championship — IAME Cadet Zip Team 12th
2017 LGM Series — IAME Cadet 3rd
Kartmasters British Grand Prix — Honda Cadet Oliver Rowland Motorsport 11th
Kartmasters British Grand Prix — IAME Cadet 2nd
Super 1 National Championship — IAME Cadet 2nd
2018 LGM Series — IAME Cadet 1st
WSK Champions Cup — 60 Mini 33rd
Trofeo Andrea Margutti — 60 Mini Team Driver Racing Kart 2nd
Kartmasters British Grand Prix — Honda Cadet Oliver Rowland Motorsport 5th
Kartmasters British Grand Prix — IAME Cadet 7th
British Kart Championship — IAME Cadet 1st
2019 WSK Champions Cup — OKJ Forza Racing 2nd
South Garda Winter Cup — OKJ 14th
WSK Super Master Series — OKJ 8th
WSK Euro Series — OKJ 5th
Italian Championship — OKJ 6th
CIK-FIA European Championship — OKJ Forza Racing 14th
CIK-FIA World Championship — OKJ 34th
WSK Open Cup — OKJ KR Motorsport 9th
WSK Final Cup — OKJ 10th
IAME International Final — X30 Junior NC
2020 IAME Winter Cup — X30 Junior Oliver Rowland Motorsport 14th
WSK Champions Cup — OKJ KR Motorsport 5th
South Garda Winter Cup — OKJ 3rd
WSK Super Master Series — OKJ 1st
WSK Euro Series — OKJ 4th
WSK Open Cup — OKJ 2nd
CIK-FIA European Championship — OKJ 2nd
CIK-FIA World Championship — OKJ 5th
2021 WSK Champions Cup — OK KR Motorsport 3rd
WSK Super Master Series — OK 3rd
WSK Euro Series — OK 1st
WSK Open Cup — OK 3rd
Champions of the Future — OK 2nd
CIK-FIA European Championship — OK 3rd
CIK-FIA World Championship — OK 3rd
WSK Final Cup — OK 1st
2022 WSK Euro Series — OK KR Motorsport 10th
CIK-FIA European Championship — OK 16th
CIK-FIA European Championship — KZ2 SP Motorsport 8th
CIK-FIA World Championship — OK KR Motorsport 32nd
CIK-FIA World Cup — KZ2 SP Motorsport 3rd

Complete CIK-FIA Karting European Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DC Points
2019 Forza Racing OKJ ANG
QH
30 		ANG
R
22 		GEN
QH
8 		GEN
R
8 		KRI
QH
26 		KRI
R
13 		LEM
QH
28 		LEM
R
7 		14th 23
2020 KR Motorsport OKJ ZUE
QH
1 		ZUE
R
(5) 		SAR
QH
(4) 		SAR
R
3 		WAC
QH
2 		WAC
R
1 		2nd 60
2021 KR Motorsport OK GEN
QH
1 		GEN
R
2 		AUB
QH
(8) 		AUB
R
(3) 		SAR
QH
5 		SAR
R
3 		ZUE
QH
3 		ZUE
R
2 		3rd 80
2022 KR Motorsport OK PRT
QH
 PRT
R
 ZUE
QH
10 		ZUE
R
9 		KRI
QH
13 		KRI
R
8 		FRN
QH
 FRN
R
 16th 16
SP Motorsport KZ2 GEN
QH
4 		GEN
R
5 		CRM
QH
17 		CRM
R
29 		8th 18

Racing record

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Racing career summary

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Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2022 Italian F4 Championship Van Amersfoort Racing 8 0 0 0 0 12 17th
2023 Formula 4 UAE Championship Hitech Grand Prix 15 1 1 1 3 107 5th
Italian F4 Championship Prema Racing 21 6 4 3 10 263.5 3rd
Euro 4 Championship 9 1 1 2 4 124 4th
Macau Formula 4 Race SJM Theodore Prema Racing 2 2 2 2 2 N/A 1st
2024 Formula Regional Middle East Championship Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited 9 1 0 0 1 33 13th
FIA Formula 3 Championship Prema Racing 20 4 0 1 5 113 4th
2025 FIA Formula 2 Championship Campos Racing 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD

* Season still in progress.
† As Lindblad was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

Complete Italian F4 Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DC Points
2022 Van Amersfoort Racing IMO
1 		IMO
2 		IMO
3 		MIS
1 		MIS
2 		MIS
3 		SPA
1 		SPA
2 		SPA
3 		VLL
1 		VLL
2 		VLL
3 		RBR
1
15 		RBR
2
15 		RBR
3 		RBR
4
22 		MNZ
1
7 		MNZ
2
9 		MNZ
3
C 		MUG
1
21 		MUG
2
Ret 		MUG
3
8 		17th 12
2023 Prema Racing IMO
1 		IMO
2
2 		IMO
3
2 		IMO
4
1 		MIS
1
2 		MIS
2
1 		MIS
3
1 		SPA
1
5 		SPA
2
3 		SPA
3
Ret 		MNZ
1
1 		MNZ
2
1 		MNZ
3
1 		LEC
1
8 		LEC
2
4 		LEC
3
6 		MUG
1
5 		MUG
2
31† 		MUG
3
10 		VLL
1
6 		VLL
2
9 		VLL
3
14 		3rd 263.5

Complete Formula 4 UAE Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Pos Points
2023 Hitech Grand Prix DUB1
1
8 		DUB1
2
3 		DUB1
3
1 		KMT1
1
5 		KMT1
2
33 		KMT1
3
7 		KMT2
1
Ret 		KMT2
2
16 		KMT2
3
5 		DUB2
1
Ret 		DUB2
2
19 		DUB2
3
4 		YMC
1
3 		YMC
2
5 		YMC
3
Ret 		5th 107

Complete Euro 4 Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 DC Points
2023 Prema Racing MUG
1
4 		MUG
2
4 		MUG
3
5 		MNZ
1
2 		MNZ
2
2 		MNZ
3
1 		CAT
1
2 		CAT
2
10 		CAT
3
11 		4th 124

Complete Formula 4 South East Asia Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pos Points
2023 Theodore Racing ZZIC1
1
 ZZIC1
2
 ZZIC1
3
 MAC
1
1 		MAC
1
1 		SEP1
1
 SEP1
2
 SEP1
3
 SEP2
1
 SEP2
2
 SEP2
3
 NC† 0

Complete Formula Regional Middle East Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 DC Points
2024 Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited YMC1
1
10 		YMC1
2
1 		YMC1
3
8 		YMC2
1
15 		YMC2
2
9 		YMC2
3
27† 		DUB1
1
15 		DUB1
2
10 		DUB1
3
24† 		YMC3
1 		YMC3
2 		YMC3
3 		DUB2
1 		DUB2
2 		DUB2
3 		13th 33

Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DC Points
2024 Prema Racing BHR
SPR
1 		BHR
FEA
8 		MEL
SPR
2 		MEL
FEA
11 		IMO
SPR
8 		IMO
FEA
7 		MON
SPR
Ret 		MON
FEA
4 		CAT
SPR
9 		CAT
FEA
1 		RBR
SPR
Ret 		RBR
FEA
7 		SIL
SPR
1 		SIL
FEA
1 		HUN
SPR
15 		HUN
FEA
28† 		SPA
SPR
15 		SPA
FEA
Ret 		MNZ
SPR
12 		MNZ
FEA
16 		4th 113

Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 DC Points
2025 Campos Racing MEL
SPR
 MEL
FEA
 BHR
SPR
 BHR
FEA
 JED
SPR
 JED
FEA
 IMO
SPR
 IMO
FEA
 MON
SPR
 MON
FEA
 CAT
SPR
 CAT
FEA
 RBR
SPR
 RBR
FEA
 SIL
SPR
 SIL
FEA
 SPA
SPR
 SPA
FEA
 HUN
SPR
 HUN
FEA
 MNZ
SPR
 MNZ
FEA
 BAK
SPR
 BAK
FEA
 LSL
SPR
 LSL
FEA
 YMC
SPR
 YMC
FEA
 TBD TBD

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