{"id":1969863,"date":"2026-06-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1969863"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:00:00","slug":"arvid-lindblad-the-british-teen-making-f1-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1969863","title":{"rendered":"Arvid Lindblad: The British teen making F1 history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1080\/0-317-1080-720\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446390.png&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article longread\">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/life-culture\/article\/70362\/1\/arvid-lindblad-formula-one-british-teen-f1-racing-interview-summer-2026\" data-article-id=\"70362\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-portrait-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img no-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\" data-template=\"Longread Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ARVID\" class=\"img\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1080\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446390.png\" width=\"1080\"><\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-06-03T11:00:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"03 June 2026\"><span class=\"month\">DateInMeta<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"3\">3,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical vertical - life-culture\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/life-culture\">Life &amp; Culture<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/the-summer-2026-issue\">The Summer 2026 Issue<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>Arvid Lindblad: The British teen making <span class=\"nowrap\">F1 history<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>Britain\u2019s youngest-ever Formula One competitor Arvid Lindblad is well on his way to becoming a legend. Here, he opens up on his ride to the top, his multicultural roots, and why plan A is the only plan he\u2019s <span class=\"nowrap\">ever needed<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-06-03T11:00:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"03 June 2026\"><span class=\"month\">June<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"3\">3,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - life-culture\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/life-culture\">Life &amp; Culture<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/the-summer-2026-issue\">The Summer 2026 Issue<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-06-03T11:00:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"03 June 2026\"><span class=\"month\">June<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"3\">3,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/isobelvandyke\"><br \/>\nIsobel Van Dyke<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Photography\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Photography<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/JesseGlazzard\"><br \/>\nJesse Glazzard<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Styling\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Styling<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/bellakavanagh\"><br \/>\nBella kavanagh<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-10-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Arvid Lindblad &#8211; The Summer <span class=\"nowrap\">2026 Issue<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/0\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1350-900\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446123.jpg\" width=\"1350\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/1\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-624-1035-690\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446122.jpg\" width=\"1035\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/2\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-243-1035-690\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446121.jpg\" width=\"1035\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/3\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-175-780-520\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446126.jpg\" width=\"780\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/4\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-618-1035-690\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446119.jpg\" width=\"1035\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/5\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-628-899-599\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446128.jpg\" width=\"899\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 10 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><em>This story is taken from the summer 2026 issue of Dazed, which is on sale internationally from June 5. Pre-order a copy of the magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/b6j0xs-f5.myshopify.com\/cart\/57910539321608:1?channel=buy_button\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are two versions of Arvid Lindblad. In the public eye, there\u2019s the poised and polished racing prodigy who made his Formula One debut in March, having become the youngest-ever race winner in Formula Two last year. Beneath the glossy livery, however, there\u2019s the 18-year-old kid from Surrey, who likes Drake, skating, Snapchat and going to Nando\u2019s with his friends. Despite driving at speeds upwards of 200mph for work, Lindblad is yet to get his licence, which means that today, as we traverse the streets of Milton Keynes from one shoot location to the next, he\u2019s riding shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>I sit in the back and Lindblad keeps his eyes on the road ahead, scarcely looking back at me as if we\u2019re in a confessional. His sin? He never watched <em>Marty Supreme<\/em>, even after asking Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet for one of his viral jackets. <span>\u201c<\/span>That\u2019s pretty bad,\u201d he admits. Late last year, like thousands of teenagers around the world, Lindblad was desperate to get his hands on some of the merch for the movie, in which Chalamet stars as a ludicrously ambitious table tennis hopeful. \u201cI was very lucky that some of our contacts were able to talk to Timoth\u00e9e,\u201d he says. \u201cApparently it\u2019s quite strict how they do it. I didn\u2019t realise they had to go to him directly. Then they had to take a photo giving the jacket to me to make sure it didn\u2019t get lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He may not have seen the film, but Lindblad recognises similarities between himself and Chalamet\u2019s goal-obsessed character, Marty Mauser. \u201cI\u2019ve seen snippets and I do relate to him,\u201d he says. \u201cI remember Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s character saying something like, \u2018What happens if this little table tennis gig doesn\u2019t work out?\u2019 and he says, \u2018It doesn\u2019t even come into my consciousness,\u2019 or something like that. That was really the same thing for me. My goal was Formula One and that was all I had my eyes on. I wanted it so badly that I couldn\u2019t see a future where it didn\u2019t happen. It wasn\u2019t about having a plan B. Formula One was non-negotiable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lindblad\u2019s dream became his reality this spring, when he made history at the Australian Grand Prix as Britain\u2019s youngest-ever F1 driver. \u201cIt\u2019s a day I\u2019ll remember for the rest of my life,\u201d he says. He may be the only rookie in the lineup this season, but he\u2019s certainly not driving like it. Behind the wheel for Visa Cash App Racing Bulls \u2013 the cool younger sibling of Red Bull \u2013 he made an astonishing debut, becoming the third-youngest points scorer in the sport\u2019s history and finishing in P8 (eighth place in racing lingo). At one point he even found himself in P3, overtaking drivers he has looked up to since he was very young, including world champions like Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"a18f6461-586f-4cde-afae-b45900b20a7e\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1350\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446123.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"squarish\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.05\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"squarish\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"1290\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1350\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446123.jpg\" width=\"1350\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Arvid wears: t-shirt The Contemporary Wardrobe, jumpsuit The Vintage Showroom, boots worn throughout Costume Studio, Arvid\u2019s own jewellery <span class=\"nowrap\">worn throughout.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photography Jesse Glazzard, styling <span class=\"nowrap\">Bella Kavanagh<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>Born and raised in Virginia Water, a sleepy commuter village on the outskirts of London, Lindblad decided he wanted to be an F1 driver when he was four years old. He recalls watching it on TV with his dad, transfixed by the screen, and hashing out a plan to get there himself. At five he had started karting and, at six, he attended his first British Grand Prix, which confirmed his desire to race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At school, Lindblad preferred to keep his ambitions to himself. \u201cWhen I was about seven or eight, I got picked on for karting,\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt was understandable. Most normal people go to the kart track and it\u2019s just two pedals and a steering wheel. They couldn\u2019t relate to the fact I was taking it so seriously.\u201d His classmates became less of an issue as he started to miss more school. At first, he was skipping one or two Fridays a month to take part in kart racing competitions, but by the time he was 11 he was competing across Europe and missing \u201ctwo or three weeks a month\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As the one who introduced him to motorsport, his father was supportive from the start. His mum, on the other hand, needed a little more convincing. \u201cI come from a partly Indian background and the stereotype is that education is very important, which was the case at home,\u201d says Lindblad. \u201cFor her, it was hard to accept me missing school, and education not being my first priority. It created a bit of conflict at home.\u201d Lindblad\u2019s maternal grandparents were born in India\u2019s Punjab region but were forced to flee to Delhi during the partition. They moved to England in the 1970s, where they worked as GPs until relatively recently \u2013 Lindblad\u2019s grandmother, his nani, retired aged 82. \u201cMy mum had to force her to stop working,\u201d he says. \u201cThat describes my family in a nutshell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His father was born to a working-class family in rural Sweden, hustling his way up the ranks of the finance industry and going on to found his own investment company. During races, Lindblad proudly bears all three flags \u2013 Indian, Swedish and English \u2013 on his helmet. \u201cIt\u2019s quite a rare mix, but I\u2019m very proud of it,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s shaped me into who I am as a driver and as a person. I want to carry that on my helmet because, when I\u2019m in the car, that\u2019s what the outside world sees.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI come from a family that had to work for everything they had. I don\u2019t have any interest in the lavish Monaco stereotype\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>Lindblad credits his family\u2019s attitude towards work with keeping him grounded, and seems uninterested in the luxury lifestyle often associated with F1 drivers. \u201cNot everyone has the opportunity to race in Formula One and I\u2019m very grateful to have had that opportunity due to my parents\u2019 hard work,\u201d he explains. \u201cMy dad got his first job at 11 while his parents struggled to put three meals on the table [&#8230;] I come from a family that had to work for everything they had. It\u2019s given me an awareness about the world, and because of that I don\u2019t have any interest in the lavish Monaco stereotype.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s partly due to his background that Lindblad idolised Lewis Hamilton more than any other driver. \u201cI felt a connection to him because he was the only driver of colour,\u201d he says, \u201cbut also because his rookie year [2007] was the same year that I was born.\u201d He remembers meeting Hamilton for the first time last year during the Belgian Grand Prix. \u201cWe were staying in motorhomes and I ended up playing Uno with him and Isack [Hadjar] one Friday night. I don\u2019t think he knew who I was, but to sit across from him, have a laugh and talk to him like a normal person \u2013 someone that I\u2019d seen on the TV for years \u2013 was surreal.\u201d Lindblad was racing in F2 at the time, but less than a year later the two drivers were reunited, this time as competitors on the F1 grid.<\/p>\n<p>Lindblad is only the third driver of Indian descent to race in F1 and the first in over a decade, following in the footsteps of Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok. He\u2019s keen to connect with his heritage more, and above anything would love the opportunity to race at the Indian Grand Prix. Sadly, the race only ever took place three times, between 2011 and 2013, but he\u2019s hopeful for its return. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of my Indian background,\u201d he says. \u201cIf there was a grand prix in India that would be very special for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"12d02618-eeaa-4e31-a864-b45900b20d95\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1350\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446124.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.53\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"880\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1350\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446124.jpg\" width=\"1350\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Arvid wears: archive Raf Simons shirts RagMarket Archive, trousers and belt Costume Studio, Arvid\u2019s own 2026 F1 helmet<br \/>\n(Schuberth SF4 <span class=\"nowrap\">ABP 8860-2018).<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photography Jesse Glazzard, styling <span class=\"nowrap\">Bella Kavanagh<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>After a string of record-breaking feats \u2013 he is currently the youngest-ever F2 <em>and<\/em> F3 race winner, a feat he accomplished in consecutive years \u2013 it was announced last December that Lindblad would be graduating from F2 to F1. Since then, his schedule has been filled with intense training and trips around the world from race to race. He recently began vlogging his experiences on YouTube, detailing his daily routine which includes workout sessions, simulator practice and hours dedicated to building neck muscle \u2013 hugely important for drivers to withstand the G-force of the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a very different life from those of his friends, who are mostly in their first year of university, busy being freshers and going out every other night of the week. Fomo would be an understandable response. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a very normal teenage life,\u201d he says, as if it was decades ago. \u201cIt\u2019s not been easy but it\u2019s a sacrifice that I was always willing to make. I\u2019ve got good friends at home \u2013 for the first time in quite a few years, to be honest. When I have time off, we hang out and I try to be a normal 18-year-old, but I do appreciate that my life is a bit nuts.\u201d His tone brightens and it becomes clear that, while he misses his friends, he doesn\u2019t envy them. \u201cI\u2019m fortunate enough to be driving some of the coolest cars in the world and doing shoots like this. But if you were to ask my friends about me, I think they would say I\u2019m just a normal kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That normal kid just reached one million followers on Instagram. (\u201cQuite proud of that,\u201d he says, with a smug grin.) Over the past few years, F1 has gone from being a sport your dad watches on a Sunday afternoon to the world\u2019s most popular annual sporting series. Since 2018, its fanbase has grown by 63 per cent, with women now making up 42 per cent of its audience. The fans are getting younger, too \u2013 almost half are aged under 35. Social media has given us an open invite to the famously exclusive paddock club; meanwhile, films and TV shows like the Oscar-nominated <em>F1<\/em> and Netflix\u2019s hit reality series <em>Drive to Survive<\/em> have further popularised the sport among millennials and Gen Z. Lindblad says <em>F1 <\/em>the movie was \u201cOK\u201d but questions the authenticity of <em>Drive to Survive<\/em> (often dubbed \u201cthe Kardashians on wheels\u201d). \u201cAs I got closer [to F1], I got less into it,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen Red Bull took me under their wing and I got more exposed to the F1 team, I thought I should pay attention to the real thing rather than watching it on TV.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFormula One wasn\u2019t the end goal for me. The dream has always been to be world champion\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>Naturally, as motorsport becomes more popular, the drivers get more famous. At the races, they\u2019re treated like gods. It\u2019s like Beatlemania, or One Direction at Wembley in 2014. It\u2019s no wonder Lindblad reached a million followers just three races into the season, or that he\u2019s being recognised more and more in public. \u201cYou really do appreciate that you are one of only 22 [F1 drivers] in the world,\u201d he says. Even so, he doesn\u2019t see himself as a celebrity yet. \u201cFor sure, things have changed, but I wouldn\u2019t really say the fame has come. I\u2019m just a rookie. There\u2019s a lot of scope to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although he keeps his feet firmly on the ground, Lindblad shoots for the stars with his ambitions. In 2021, aged 13, he approached Lando Norris at a race, boldly claiming, \u201cI\u2019ll see you in five years\u201d \u2013 a moment captured on video and immortalised online. Five years later, Lindblad has stayed true to his word. Since then, he\u2019s been perceived as a master manifester, though he admits he doesn\u2019t know what that means. \u201cI don\u2019t really know what manifestation is exactly,\u201d he says. \u201cI believed I could be in Formula One and I wanted it really badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Lindblad turns to religion to guide him. \u201cFrom an early age, me and my nani have celebrated Puja together. Whenever I\u2019m with my grandparents, we\u2019ll do that. They gave me a blessing before my first race this year.\u201d He shared some touching videos of the moment online, prompting praise in the comments. \u201cWe have an F1 nani now,\u201d one user wrote. \u201cNever thought I\u2019d see \u2018nani\u2019 on an F1 team\u2019s content,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n<p>Lindblad is still figuring out his goals beyond the grid \u2013 he is a teenager, after all \u2013 but for now, he says he\u2019s channelling everything into his number one priority: \u201cFormula One wasn\u2019t the end goal for me. The dream has always been to be world champion. The goal is to retire with a world championship.\u201d If his track record has proved anything, we\u2019ve got reason to believe that\u2019s exactly what he\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"article-footer\">\n<div class=\"article-series header tags\"><span class=\"heading\">More on these topics:<\/span><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/life-culture\">Life &amp; Culture<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/the-summer-2026-issue\">The Summer 2026 Issue<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/sport\">Sport<\/a><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"grid split-list__header\">\n<div class=\"section-header\">\n<div class=\"section-header__link\">\n<h2 class=\"section-header__title\">Trending<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"split-list-scene\" data-split-scene>\n<section class=\"split-list\" id=\"trending\" data-split>\n<div class=\"split-list__layout\" aria-label=\"Trending\">\n<div class=\"split-list__feature\"><a class=\"split-hero\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/life-culture\/article\/70333\/1\/ilia-malinin-interview-winter-olympics-summer-2026-issue\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"split-hero__media\"><span class=\"image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ILIA COVER\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/640\/0-310-1080-720\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446204.png\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"split-hero__panel\">\n<div class=\"split-hero__wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"split-hero__title\">Ilia Malinin breaks the ice \u2013 and his silence<\/h3>\n<p class=\"split-hero__summary\">He does things on a skating rink that were once thought impossible. 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The Summer <span class=\"nowrap\">2026 Issue<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/0\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1350-900\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446123.jpg\" width=\"1350\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/1\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-624-1035-690\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446122.jpg\" width=\"1035\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/2\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-243-1035-690\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446121.jpg\" width=\"1035\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/3\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-175-780-520\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446126.jpg\" width=\"780\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/4\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-618-1035-690\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446119.jpg\" width=\"1035\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/37085\/5\/arvid-lindblad-the-summer-2026-issue\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-628-899-599\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446128.jpg\" width=\"899\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 10 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><em>This story is taken from the summer 2026 issue of Dazed, which is on sale internationally from June 5. Pre-order a copy of the magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/b6j0xs-f5.myshopify.com\/cart\/57910539321608:1?channel=buy_button\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are two versions of Arvid Lindblad. In the public eye, there\u2019s the poised and polished racing prodigy who made his Formula One debut in March, having become the youngest-ever race winner in Formula Two last year. Beneath the glossy livery, however, there\u2019s the 18-year-old kid from Surrey, who likes Drake, skating, Snapchat and going to Nando\u2019s with his friends. Despite driving at speeds upwards of 200mph for work, Lindblad is yet to get his licence, which means that today, as we traverse the streets of Milton Keynes from one shoot location to the next, he\u2019s riding shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>I sit in the back and Lindblad keeps his eyes on the road ahead, scarcely looking back at me as if we\u2019re in a confessional. His sin? He never watched <em>Marty Supreme<\/em>, even after asking Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet for one of his viral jackets. <span>\u201c<\/span>That\u2019s pretty bad,\u201d he admits. Late last year, like thousands of teenagers around the world, Lindblad was desperate to get his hands on some of the merch for the movie, in which Chalamet stars as a ludicrously ambitious table tennis hopeful. \u201cI was very lucky that some of our contacts were able to talk to Timoth\u00e9e,\u201d he says. \u201cApparently it\u2019s quite strict how they do it. I didn\u2019t realise they had to go to him directly. Then they had to take a photo giving the jacket to me to make sure it didn\u2019t get lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He may not have seen the film, but Lindblad recognises similarities between himself and Chalamet\u2019s goal-obsessed character, Marty Mauser. \u201cI\u2019ve seen snippets and I do relate to him,\u201d he says. \u201cI remember Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s character saying something like, \u2018What happens if this little table tennis gig doesn\u2019t work out?\u2019 and he says, \u2018It doesn\u2019t even come into my consciousness,\u2019 or something like that. That was really the same thing for me. My goal was Formula One and that was all I had my eyes on. I wanted it so badly that I couldn\u2019t see a future where it didn\u2019t happen. It wasn\u2019t about having a plan B. Formula One was non-negotiable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lindblad\u2019s dream became his reality this spring, when he made history at the Australian Grand Prix as Britain\u2019s youngest-ever F1 driver. \u201cIt\u2019s a day I\u2019ll remember for the rest of my life,\u201d he says. He may be the only rookie in the lineup this season, but he\u2019s certainly not driving like it. Behind the wheel for Visa Cash App Racing Bulls \u2013 the cool younger sibling of Red Bull \u2013 he made an astonishing debut, becoming the third-youngest points scorer in the sport\u2019s history and finishing in P8 (eighth place in racing lingo). At one point he even found himself in P3, overtaking drivers he has looked up to since he was very young, including world champions like Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"a18f6461-586f-4cde-afae-b45900b20a7e\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1350\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446123.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"squarish\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.05\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"squarish\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"1290\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1350\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446123.jpg\" width=\"1350\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Arvid wears: t-shirt The Contemporary Wardrobe, jumpsuit The Vintage Showroom, boots worn throughout Costume Studio, Arvid\u2019s own jewellery <span class=\"nowrap\">worn throughout.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photography Jesse Glazzard, styling <span class=\"nowrap\">Bella Kavanagh<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>Born and raised in Virginia Water, a sleepy commuter village on the outskirts of London, Lindblad decided he wanted to be an F1 driver when he was four years old. He recalls watching it on TV with his dad, transfixed by the screen, and hashing out a plan to get there himself. At five he had started karting and, at six, he attended his first British Grand Prix, which confirmed his desire to race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At school, Lindblad preferred to keep his ambitions to himself. \u201cWhen I was about seven or eight, I got picked on for karting,\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt was understandable. Most normal people go to the kart track and it\u2019s just two pedals and a steering wheel. They couldn\u2019t relate to the fact I was taking it so seriously.\u201d His classmates became less of an issue as he started to miss more school. At first, he was skipping one or two Fridays a month to take part in kart racing competitions, but by the time he was 11 he was competing across Europe and missing \u201ctwo or three weeks a month\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As the one who introduced him to motorsport, his father was supportive from the start. His mum, on the other hand, needed a little more convincing. \u201cI come from a partly Indian background and the stereotype is that education is very important, which was the case at home,\u201d says Lindblad. \u201cFor her, it was hard to accept me missing school, and education not being my first priority. It created a bit of conflict at home.\u201d Lindblad\u2019s maternal grandparents were born in India\u2019s Punjab region but were forced to flee to Delhi during the partition. They moved to England in the 1970s, where they worked as GPs until relatively recently \u2013 Lindblad\u2019s grandmother, his nani, retired aged 82. \u201cMy mum had to force her to stop working,\u201d he says. \u201cThat describes my family in a nutshell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His father was born to a working-class family in rural Sweden, hustling his way up the ranks of the finance industry and going on to found his own investment company. During races, Lindblad proudly bears all three flags \u2013 Indian, Swedish and English \u2013 on his helmet. \u201cIt\u2019s quite a rare mix, but I\u2019m very proud of it,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s shaped me into who I am as a driver and as a person. I want to carry that on my helmet because, when I\u2019m in the car, that\u2019s what the outside world sees.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI come from a family that had to work for everything they had. I don\u2019t have any interest in the lavish Monaco stereotype\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>Lindblad credits his family\u2019s attitude towards work with keeping him grounded, and seems uninterested in the luxury lifestyle often associated with F1 drivers. \u201cNot everyone has the opportunity to race in Formula One and I\u2019m very grateful to have had that opportunity due to my parents\u2019 hard work,\u201d he explains. \u201cMy dad got his first job at 11 while his parents struggled to put three meals on the table [&#8230;] I come from a family that had to work for everything they had. It\u2019s given me an awareness about the world, and because of that I don\u2019t have any interest in the lavish Monaco stereotype.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s partly due to his background that Lindblad idolised Lewis Hamilton more than any other driver. \u201cI felt a connection to him because he was the only driver of colour,\u201d he says, \u201cbut also because his rookie year [2007] was the same year that I was born.\u201d He remembers meeting Hamilton for the first time last year during the Belgian Grand Prix. \u201cWe were staying in motorhomes and I ended up playing Uno with him and Isack [Hadjar] one Friday night. I don\u2019t think he knew who I was, but to sit across from him, have a laugh and talk to him like a normal person \u2013 someone that I\u2019d seen on the TV for years \u2013 was surreal.\u201d Lindblad was racing in F2 at the time, but less than a year later the two drivers were reunited, this time as competitors on the F1 grid.<\/p>\n<p>Lindblad is only the third driver of Indian descent to race in F1 and the first in over a decade, following in the footsteps of Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok. He\u2019s keen to connect with his heritage more, and above anything would love the opportunity to race at the Indian Grand Prix. Sadly, the race only ever took place three times, between 2011 and 2013, but he\u2019s hopeful for its return. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of my Indian background,\u201d he says. \u201cIf there was a grand prix in India that would be very special for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"12d02618-eeaa-4e31-a864-b45900b20d95\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1350\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446124.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.53\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arvid Lindblad - The Summer 2026 Issue\" class=\"img\" height=\"880\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1350\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446124.jpg\" width=\"1350\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Arvid wears: archive Raf Simons shirts RagMarket Archive, trousers and belt Costume Studio, Arvid\u2019s own 2026 F1 helmet<br \/>\n(Schuberth SF4 <span class=\"nowrap\">ABP 8860-2018).<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photography Jesse Glazzard, styling <span class=\"nowrap\">Bella Kavanagh<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>After a string of record-breaking feats \u2013 he is currently the youngest-ever F2 <em>and<\/em> F3 race winner, a feat he accomplished in consecutive years \u2013 it was announced last December that Lindblad would be graduating from F2 to F1. Since then, his schedule has been filled with intense training and trips around the world from race to race. He recently began vlogging his experiences on YouTube, detailing his daily routine which includes workout sessions, simulator practice and hours dedicated to building neck muscle \u2013 hugely important for drivers to withstand the G-force of the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a very different life from those of his friends, who are mostly in their first year of university, busy being freshers and going out every other night of the week. Fomo would be an understandable response. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a very normal teenage life,\u201d he says, as if it was decades ago. \u201cIt\u2019s not been easy but it\u2019s a sacrifice that I was always willing to make. I\u2019ve got good friends at home \u2013 for the first time in quite a few years, to be honest. When I have time off, we hang out and I try to be a normal 18-year-old, but I do appreciate that my life is a bit nuts.\u201d His tone brightens and it becomes clear that, while he misses his friends, he doesn\u2019t envy them. \u201cI\u2019m fortunate enough to be driving some of the coolest cars in the world and doing shoots like this. But if you were to ask my friends about me, I think they would say I\u2019m just a normal kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That normal kid just reached one million followers on Instagram. (\u201cQuite proud of that,\u201d he says, with a smug grin.) Over the past few years, F1 has gone from being a sport your dad watches on a Sunday afternoon to the world\u2019s most popular annual sporting series. Since 2018, its fanbase has grown by 63 per cent, with women now making up 42 per cent of its audience. The fans are getting younger, too \u2013 almost half are aged under 35. Social media has given us an open invite to the famously exclusive paddock club; meanwhile, films and TV shows like the Oscar-nominated <em>F1<\/em> and Netflix\u2019s hit reality series <em>Drive to Survive<\/em> have further popularised the sport among millennials and Gen Z. Lindblad says <em>F1 <\/em>the movie was \u201cOK\u201d but questions the authenticity of <em>Drive to Survive<\/em> (often dubbed \u201cthe Kardashians on wheels\u201d). \u201cAs I got closer [to F1], I got less into it,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen Red Bull took me under their wing and I got more exposed to the F1 team, I thought I should pay attention to the real thing rather than watching it on TV.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFormula One wasn\u2019t the end goal for me. The dream has always been to be world champion\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>Naturally, as motorsport becomes more popular, the drivers get more famous. At the races, they\u2019re treated like gods. It\u2019s like Beatlemania, or One Direction at Wembley in 2014. It\u2019s no wonder Lindblad reached a million followers just three races into the season, or that he\u2019s being recognised more and more in public. \u201cYou really do appreciate that you are one of only 22 [F1 drivers] in the world,\u201d he says. Even so, he doesn\u2019t see himself as a celebrity yet. \u201cFor sure, things have changed, but I wouldn\u2019t really say the fame has come. I\u2019m just a rookie. There\u2019s a lot of scope to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although he keeps his feet firmly on the ground, Lindblad shoots for the stars with his ambitions. In 2021, aged 13, he approached Lando Norris at a race, boldly claiming, \u201cI\u2019ll see you in five years\u201d \u2013 a moment captured on video and immortalised online. Five years later, Lindblad has stayed true to his word. Since then, he\u2019s been perceived as a master manifester, though he admits he doesn\u2019t know what that means. \u201cI don\u2019t really know what manifestation is exactly,\u201d he says. \u201cI believed I could be in Formula One and I wanted it really badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Lindblad turns to religion to guide him. \u201cFrom an early age, me and my nani have celebrated Puja together. Whenever I\u2019m with my grandparents, we\u2019ll do that. They gave me a blessing before my first race this year.\u201d He shared some touching videos of the moment online, prompting praise in the comments. \u201cWe have an F1 nani now,\u201d one user wrote. \u201cNever thought I\u2019d see \u2018nani\u2019 on an F1 team\u2019s content,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n<p>Lindblad is still figuring out his goals beyond the grid \u2013 he is a teenager, after all \u2013 but for now, he says he\u2019s channelling everything into his number one priority: \u201cFormula One wasn\u2019t the end goal for me. The dream has always been to be world champion. The goal is to retire with a world championship.\u201d If his track record has proved anything, we\u2019ve got reason to believe that\u2019s exactly what he\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/life-culture\/article\/70362\/1\/arvid-lindblad-formula-one-british-teen-f1-racing-interview-summer-2026&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1080\/0-317-1080-720\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/6\/1446390.png&#8221;] DateInMeta\u00a0 3,\u00a0 2026 Life &amp; Culture \/ The Summer 2026 Issue Arvid Lindblad: The British teen making F1 history Britain\u2019s youngest-ever Formula One competitor Arvid Lindblad is well on his way to becoming a legend. 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