Arvid Lindblad has had all eyes on him since his F3 campaign, and now coming into the 2025 F2 season the looks are more critical than ever.
Lindblad’s record is nothing short of outstanding. Four wins in his maiden season in F3, including becoming the first ever driver to do the double. Winning both the sprint race and the feature at Silverstone in an utterly dominant fashion.
Finishing the season fourth and missing out on the F3 title by mere points, just to continue his journey into F2, with Campos destined to impress.
The Brit also finds himself as one of the few F2 driver’s that already finds himself in the conversation for a future F1 seat. Helmut Marko just confirmed that Lindblad will be taking part in FP1 in Silverstone following the FIA granting Lindblad special dispensation for his Super Licence.
Currently, the Brit finds himself third in the F2 championship, with a mere eight points keeping him from the championship lead. It’s been a season of ups and downs for many drivers on the grid, and yet Arvid Lindblad has seemed unphased.
The one bad weekend
Every driver has bad weekends, in Formula 2 it’s not uncommon to have more bad weekends than good. As is the nature of the highly competitive environment that F2 finds itself in weekend after weekend. However, for Arvid Lindblad, his only bad weekend of the season so far came in Melbourne.
Lindblad qualified 14th in Australia, the adjustment from F3 to F2 perhaps taking it toll. While he managed to climb through the field in the sprint race, he left without points, in tenth. With the feature race cancelled, Lindblad started the season with zero points.
Luckily for Lindblad, it wouldn’t stay that way for long. Melbourne may have been a weekend without points, but it would be the only weekend without points Lindblad would have in the first six rounds. He came into Bahrain looking for more.
Settling into a rhythm
Bahrain was a track Lindblad knew well, he had won around the International Circuit in his F3 season and the confidence showed. He qualified in 16th and yet the Brit maintained a level head, knowing that points are won in the race not qualifying.
In the sprint race Lindbald managed to fight his way to fifth, and in the feature he repeated the performance, settling for eighth. The gains were significant, and what was more significant was the haul of points that the Brit came away from the weekend with.
From then, he was away. Lindblad qualified fifth in Jeddah, but Lindblad didn’t settle for that. He took a win in the sprint race, cementing himself as the youngest ever F2 race winner. In the feature, he finished seventh, once again leaving the weekend with a healthy dose of points.
Imola saw Lindblad start sixth, with sprint races being the area where he showed his true potential. He crossed the line with a second place finish. Just missing out on the win to Jak Crawford, who crossed the line just over a second ahead of the Brit. The feature was a fourth place finish, more points and an impressive level of consistency starting to appear from the 17-year-old.
Monaco was a weekend without champagne, but not without celebration. While the Brit finished eighth in the sprint race and fifth in the feature race, the level he was performing at was incredible. Lindblad’s lowest finishing position was tenth and that had come on the first weekend of the season.
Lindblad’s only downfall seemed to come in qualifying, forcing the Red Bull Junior to fight through the pack. Although he managed that aspect, it made his weekends harder.
The final puzzle piece
However, in Barcelona, Lindblad fixed the one aspect missing from his weekend. Qualifying. At Campos’ home Grand Prix, Arvid Lindblad took pole for the feature race. Adding a new record to his tally of the youngest ever pole sitter in F2 history.
Lindblad finished the sprint race in eighth, but his and Campos’ focus was on the feature race, and Lindblad delivered. It was a dominant display from the Brit, who took Campos their first win on home soil and moved himself up three places in the championship standings to sit third.
With every round the pressure on the young Red Bull Junior is mounting but Arvid Lindblad is proving again and again that pressure makes diamonds.
