Red Bull can invite another driver if necessary from now on, as 17 -year -old Arvid Lindblad got his super license.
Lindblad has already obtained the necessary number of license points to earn a FIA Super license, but at the age of 17, it was younger than the required license to be granted automatically to participate in the weekend F1.
Arvid Lindblad provides FIA SUPER license
In order to secure the FIA Super license, drivers must be at least 18 years of age and secure 40 necessary licensing points over the past three seasons – these points are assembled through the results of the championship.
At the age of 17, Lindledd was very young so that the FIA Super license was not granted, but starting last year, FIA presented a section under the appendix L of international sports law, Article 13.1.2, which allows applicants to grant a license at the age of 17, provided that they have proven their capabilities, that is. By accumulating the necessary points.
Red Ball submitted this request on behalf of its novice driver, Arvid Lindled, as the Formula 2 driver currently ranked third in the championship, after eight points behind the leader of the series Alex Den.
Lindblad is the main light of the Young Bull Drivers Program, and Helmut Marko was strongly praised by its rise over the ranks.
In the wake of a meeting of the World Sports Council in Macau this week, FIA confirmed that it had received a request to distribute the license to Lindblad, and the British Swedish driver gave dispensing.
“FIA received a request for a super license to Arvid Lindblad before his eighteenth birthday,” FIA said.
“After considering the information provided to support this request, the World Council found that the driver had recently shown and maturity in competing with one -seat formula and thus approved the request.”
This means that instead of having to wait for his eighteenth birthday on August 8, Red Bull can now invite his services to drive in FP1 matches or perhaps as a race driver across two Red Bull Racing and Racing Bulls.
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Nowadays, it is understood that Lindblad does not take the eye as a possibility for the Red Bull race in any capacity, even if the team has left a short driver if Max Verstapen captured the race ban. The Dutch driver currently occupies 11 penalty points and must be brought through through the Canadian Grands and Austrian race completely clean before any points from his super license.
If you pick up anything, it will receive an automatic ban on the race, which means that Red Bull needs to find alternatives.
It is understood that bull drivers in Liam Lawson and Isak Haydagar are the pioneering competitors in a place in Versabpen in the event of such a possibility, but this means a vacant seat in the bull race. Nowadays, it is understood that Ayumu IWASA will likely be the port of the invitation to such vacancies, but Lindblad secures its super license means that even if Red Bull intends to promote its small driver quickly, the option is now present to disperse it.
Last year, the request for dispensing was submitted by an unveiled team, and it is believed that it was Williams, to give Kimi Antonelle a great license before his eighteenth birthday – a solution that would open a potential alternative to the last Logan Sargent at that time.
However, in the end, Williams was immersed by Franco Kulapinto to replace Sagint, as Antonelli made his first weekend at FP1 in Monza, after reaching 18 days a few days ago.
Although FIA has opened the possibility of granting dispensation in exceptional cases, it is important to note that the high licensing rules have not changed-drivers must be 18 years at the beginning of the first weekend of the F1 competition, as was the case since 2016.
These rules were presented from the back of the lightning height in Max Verstapen through the ranks, where he jumped from Karting to Formula 3 to Formula 1 in just two years, which led to his first appearance at the weekend in the F1 race three days after reaching 17 years while leading FP1 in the Japanese Grand Prix for the year 2014.
The purpose of the superior licensing rules has since been provided with the intention of protecting drivers – whether they were already on the network and young people trying to reach there.
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