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.[2] 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.
Early career
Junior career
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.[3] 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In February 2012, Blomqvist joined the select group of young talent on the McLaren Driver Development Programme.[4]
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.
Formula 3 (2010–2014)
Because of his outstanding success at Macau in 2010, 2011 saw Blomqvist competing in German F3 with Performance Racing. Despite competing against stronger teams, he was third in the Championship, when at the start of the race at EuroSpeedway Lausitz he was hit by another car and propelled into a wall, prematurely ending his season and breaking his back at the same time. It would require several months of recuperation before Blomqvist was fit to drive again.
Nonetheless, Eurointernational invited Blomqvist to compete in the 2012 German F3 Championship, fitting the races around his F3 Euroseries schedule. Despite competing in only five rounds due to his prior injury, Blomqvist was fifth in the Championship having achieved an impressive ten podiums, including five wins, and led by sixteen points for these rounds.
Blomqvist finished the season in seventh place for both the F3 Euroseries and the FIA European Formula 3 Championship, having competed with a team new to Formula 3. He entered the Macau F3 street circuit race in November 2012 where he and his team, Eurointernational, used a brand new car, but with no time to test beforehand, the results were disappointing.
At the end of 2012, Blomqvist was selected to join the Red Bull Junior Team and competed in the newly formed FIA European Formula 3 Championship this year — billed as "the most competitive young talent series on the planet" – where he joined his former team EuroInternational as their lone driver for the 2013 season. Despite the team being new to Formula 3, Blomqvist finished the season in seventh place and EuroInternational
DTM (2015–2017)
2015
On 2 February 2015, it was announced Blomqvist had secured a BMW DTM drive for multiple seasons, replacing the spot left vacant by the departure of Joey Hand. The announcement followed a selection test carried out by Blomqvist, Jack Harvey, Robin Frijns, Lucas Luhr, Richie Stanaway, Alex Lynn, Sam Bird and Alex Gurney at Jerez in December 2014. Blomqvist joined the RBM Team alongside Augusto Farfus and finished the season in a respectable fourteenth place, having made DTM history as the youngest BMW driver to win a race in his first season, at Oschersleben, and the second youngest race winner with any manufacturer.
2016
For the 2016 season, Blomqvist remained with the RBM Team but with a new teammate, Maxime Martin. He concluded a successful 2016 DTM season in point-scoring fashion at the series' finale in Hockenheim, ending the season in sixth position in the Drivers' Championship, the youngest driver in the top ten of the season's final standings.
2017
Formula E (2017–2021)
2017–18 season
Blomqvist participated in the 2017–18 Formula E season with the MS&AD Andretti Formula E team. This caused some confusion as he was confirmed by the official FIA entry list, rather than an announcement by the team. He made his debut at Marrakesh ePrix, replacing Kamui Kobayashi. His teammate was António Félix da Costa, who had raced in Formula E since the inaugural 2014–15 season (with Team Aguri for 2014–15). Despite a strong debut in Marrakesh, finishing in eighth position, his results were not considered good enough by the team & he was replaced with Stéphane Sarrazin for the final four races of the season. Blomqvist returned to the Formula E paddock for the 2019 Berlin ePrix, where he acted as a TV pundit, in place of the regular Dario Franchitti, who was attending the 2019 Indy 500.
2019–20 season
Blomqvist returned to the race seat for the final two races of the 2019–20 season-ending 2020 Berlin ePrix, replacing Jaguar's James Calado, who had other commitments.[5]
FIA World Endurance Championship (2018–present)
2018
In the 2018 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup, driving a BMW M6 GT3 for Team Walkenhorst Motorsport, Blomqvist, and teammates Philipp Eng and Christian Krognes won the 2018 24 Hours of Spa.
2021
During the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship, Blomqvist, ex-teammate at Carlin in F3 Sean Gelael, and ex-Formula 1 driver Stoffel Vandoorne were driving an Oreca 07 for Jota Sport team, in the Le Mans Prototype2 class. They finished second in the class, collecting four podiums out of the five races, including a second place in the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans.
2023
Blomqvist would return to the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship with United Autosports in the LMP2 category alongside Oliver Jarvis and
IMSA (2019–present)
2019
Blomqvist made his debut in the 2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship at the wheel of a BMW M8 GTE, at Watkins Glen International, in a one-off race appearance, and finished in a respectable eighth in the GT Le Mans category. In 2019, he stuck around for a full season, driving the BMW of M8 GTE of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing once again. He scored solid points all throughout the season, with his best finish coming in the season's finale at the 2019 Petit Le Mans, a third place podium. He ended the year ninth in the GT Le Mans category, with 258 points.
2022
Following his Formula E campaign, Blomqvist was announced in November 2021, as one of the driver's for Meyer Shank Racing in the 2022 IMSA SportsCar Championship, driving the Acura ARX-05 along with teammate Oliver Jarvis.[10] He started the season with a win at the Rolex 24 and won again that season at Road Atlanta
IndyCar (2023–2024)
2022
Following his successful season in IMSA for Meyer Shank Racing, Blomqvist tested one of the team's cars in October 2022 in a private IndyCar driver evaluation test at Sebring. He was fastest out of the 5 participants.[14][15]
2023
On 11 July 2023, Meyer Shank Racing announced Blomqvist would drive the No. 60 car at Toronto for Simon Pagenaud, who was not cleared to race following an accident at Mid-Ohio. In his first IndyCar race, Blomqvist qualified 20th out of 27 cars, but crashed out on the first lap as he was pushed into the wall by Ryan Hunter-Reay and Jack Harvey. On 11 August 2023, Meyer Shank Racing announced that Blomqvist will be a full-time driver on the Meyer Shank team for the 2024 IndyCar Series, with Hélio Castroneves moving to a part time role, including Castroneves's running in the 2024 Indianapolis 500
Personal life
Blomqvist was born in the United Kingdom and lived there until his parents split up. After the breakup Blomqvist moved with his mother to New Zealand, where he spent most of his childhood. As his racing career progressed, Blomqvist made the decision to move to Europe, first to Sweden with his father, later to the United Kingdom to live with family friends. He has citizenships of New Zealand, United Kingdom and Sweden and races under the British flag, but considers himself a New Zealander.[20][21] Blomqvist currently resides in Monaco.[22]
Racing record
Career summary
† As Blomqvist was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.
- Season still in progress.
Complete Formula Renault UK results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results
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Complete FIA Formula 3 European Championship results
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Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results
External links
References
- Graham Goodwin. 2016 FIA Driver Categorisation Completed Dailysportscar, 7 December 2015, retrieved 2 January 2026^
- RJ O'Connell. Acura MSR Retains Full Season Driver Lineup For 2026 dailysportscar.com, 31 October 2025, retrieved 2025-12-17^
- Tom Blomqvist – Racing career profile