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Tom Leonard Blomqvist (born 30 November 1993) is a British-born Swedish racing driver, who competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship with Meyer Shank Racing as a factory driver for Acura. Blomqvist won the 2022 and 2023 24 Hours of Daytona with Meyer Shank and the 2018 24 Hours of Spa with BMW Motorsport. He is the son of 1984 Swedish World Rally Champion, Stig Blomqvist.
Blomqvist began his racing career in karting, in which he competed between 2003 and 2008, winning eight Championship titles in New Zealand. In 2009, at the age of fifteen, he left his home in New Zealand and moved to Europe to compete in the Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden. The driver took five podium finishes and one victory from fourteen races, finishing third in the standings. He also finished third in the Formula Renault NEZ Championship. At the end of the season, having to first apply for special permission to race as he was still only fifteen years old, he competed in two of the four races of the Formula Renault UK Winter Series winning both of the races at the Rockingham Motor Speedway.[citation needed]
In 2010, Blomqvist competed in the full Formula Renault UK season racing for Fortec Motorsport, taking twelve podiums on his way to becoming the youngest ever champion in the series' history at the age of 16, beating the record set by Lewis Hamilton who won the Championship aged 18.[citation needed]
November 2010 saw Blomqvist compete in the iconic Macau Grand Prix. Driving for Eurointernational he secured third place with fastest lap time in the Formula BMW Pacific race.[citation needed]
In December 2010, Blomqvist was a McLaren Autosport BRDC Award finalist as well as receiving the British Club Driver of the Year award. At the British Racing Drivers' Club awards, he received the Henry Surtees award for the most outstanding performance by a rising star.[citation needed]
On 30 November 2011, Blomqvist signed with MB Partners Ltd, owned by former F1 driver Mark Blundell. Blomqvist was again a McLaren Autosport BRDC Award finalist at the end of 2011.[citation needed]
In February 2012, Blomqvist joined the select group of young talent on the McLaren Driver Development Programme.
In the same month, Blomqvist was one of six finalists in a large selection process as Porsche looked for two new junior drivers who would also be contesting the Porsche Carrera Cup. Despite the accolade of being chosen as one of the drivers, Blomqvist elected to stay in single-seaters and a few weeks later, having been selected as a European F3 VW Factory Driver, he signed with ma-con motorsport to contest the F3 Euroseries.[citation needed]
Tom Blomqvist
Tom Leonard Blomqvist (born 30 November 1993) is a British-born Swedish racing driver, who competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship with Meyer Shank Racing as a factory driver for Acura. Blomqvist won the 2022 and 2023 24 Hours of Daytona with Meyer Shank and the 2018 24 Hours of Spa with BMW Motorsport. He is the son of 1984 Swedish World Rally Champion, Stig Blomqvist.
Blomqvist began his racing career in karting, in which he competed between 2003 and 2008, winning eight Championship titles in New Zealand. In 2009, at the age of fifteen, he left his home in New Zealand and moved to Europe to compete in the Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden. The driver took five podium finishes and one victory from fourteen races, finishing third in the standings. He also finished third in the Formula Renault NEZ Championship. At the end of the season, having to first apply for special permission to race as he was still only fifteen years old, he competed in two of the four races of the Formula Renault UK Winter Series winning both of the races at the Rockingham Motor Speedway.[citation needed]
In 2010, Blomqvist competed in the full Formula Renault UK season racing for Fortec Motorsport, taking twelve podiums on his way to becoming the youngest ever champion in the series' history at the age of 16, beating the record set by Lewis Hamilton who won the Championship aged 18.[citation needed]
November 2010 saw Blomqvist compete in the iconic Macau Grand Prix. Driving for Eurointernational he secured third place with fastest lap time in the Formula BMW Pacific race.[citation needed]
In December 2010, Blomqvist was a McLaren Autosport BRDC Award finalist as well as receiving the British Club Driver of the Year award. At the British Racing Drivers' Club awards, he received the Henry Surtees award for the most outstanding performance by a rising star.[citation needed]
On 30 November 2011, Blomqvist signed with MB Partners Ltd, owned by former F1 driver Mark Blundell. Blomqvist was again a McLaren Autosport BRDC Award finalist at the end of 2011.[citation needed]
In February 2012, Blomqvist joined the select group of young talent on the McLaren Driver Development Programme.
In the same month, Blomqvist was one of six finalists in a large selection process as Porsche looked for two new junior drivers who would also be contesting the Porsche Carrera Cup. Despite the accolade of being chosen as one of the drivers, Blomqvist elected to stay in single-seaters and a few weeks later, having been selected as a European F3 VW Factory Driver, he signed with ma-con motorsport to contest the F3 Euroseries.[citation needed]
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