{"id":10384,"date":"2026-03-12T19:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=10384"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:42:55","slug":"australian-grand-prix-arvid-lindblad-on-living-his-dream-by-becoming-britains-youngest-f1-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=10384","title":{"rendered":"Australian Grand Prix: Arvid Lindblad on &#8216;living his dream&#8217; by becoming Britain&#8217;s youngest F1 driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Arvid Lindblad said he &#8220;showed people a bit of what I am here to do&#8221; after finishing eighth on his Formula 1 debut at the Australian Grand Prix.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old Racing Bulls driver, who become the youngest Briton to race in F1 on Sunday, qualified in ninth and briefly rose to third place on the first lap after a dramatic start to the season opener in Melbourne. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lindblad&#8217;s top-10 finish means he enters the record books as the third youngest F1 points scorer at 18 years and seven months &#8211; behind Mercedes&#8217; Kimi Antonelli and Red Bull&#8217;s four-time world champion Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I was five years old, I had a dream and my dream was to be in Formula 1 and I am living my dream today,&#8221; he told Sky Sports. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/cd9gpzge02lo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arvid Lindblad said he &#8220;showed people a bit of what I am here to do&#8221; after finishing eighth on his Formula 1 debut at the Australian Grand Prix. The 18-year-old Racing Bulls driver, who become the youngest Briton to race in F1 on Sunday, qualified in ninth and briefly rose to third place on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}