It was his early teenage years, arguably the most troublesome for any parent, when Arvid Lindblad’s mother, Anita, decided she’d had enough. Too much racing, too many school absences, too often catching up with maths homework at the side of a karting track. She told his father, Stefan, that as soon as her son’s racing results plateaued, he would be back in full-time education at RGS Guildford in Surrey. Only, that moment never came.
“She only told me this a few years ago, it’s quite a funny story now,” Lindblad says, with the wry smile of an 18-year-old who always truly believed he would end up in this position. “It was really something we all had to work on. It wasn’t always easy at home, but we tried to get the balance right.
