Lando
Norris

Lando Norris was born in Bristol on 13 November 1999 and grew up near Glastonbury. He started karting at the age of eight and became world champion in the KF class in 2014. That year he also made his car racing debut in the Ginetta Junior Championship, finishing third. In 2015 he won the MSA Formula, now the British F4 Championship, with Carlin. In 2016 he took the Toyota Racing Series, the Formula Renault Eurocup and the Formula Renault NEC. He won the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 2017 and finished runner-up to George Russell in Formula 2 in 2018. A member of the McLaren young driver programme from 2017, he was the team's test and reserve driver in 2018.

Norris made his Formula One debut with McLaren in 2019, alongside Carlos Sainz Jr. He finished twelfth in Australia and scored his first points with sixth place in Bahrain, ending the year eleventh in the championship. In 2020 he took third place at the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix after a penalty for Lewis Hamilton, and set the fastest lap of the race. His first pole position came at the 2021 Russian Grand Prix, where he finished seventh after the rain arrived. That year he was also second in Italy behind team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, McLaren's first one-two finish since 2010. He ended the championship ninth in 2020, sixth in 2021, seventh in 2022 and sixth again in 2023, when he reached the podium seven times.

In 2024 Norris won his first Grand Prix in Miami, pitting under a safety car and holding off Max Verstappen at the restart. He won four races that year, including the finale in Abu Dhabi, where McLaren secured its first constructors' title since 1998, and finished runner-up to Verstappen. In 2025 he won seven races, among them Australia, Monaco and the British Grand Prix. In a title fight with Verstappen and team-mate Oscar Piastri, he finished third at the Abu Dhabi finale to become world champion for the first time. In 2026 he races for McLaren as the defending champion with the number 1. He won in Hungary, his first victory as defending champion, and again at the next race in the Netherlands.

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