Lando Norris

Norris was born on 13 November 1999 in Bristol, England, and was raised in Glastonbury. His father, Adam Norris, is a retired pensions manager who co-owned Hargreaves Lansdown and ranked 610th on the 2022 Sunday Times Rich List with a net worth of £200 million. His mother, Cisca Norris, née Wauman, is from the Flanders region of Belgium and gave him the name "Lando", which Norris has stated was not inspired by Lando Calrissian from Star Wars. He has three siblings — two younger sisters and an older brother, Oliver, who competed in karting until 2014. Norris holds both British and Belgian citizenship and speaks a small amount of Dutch.

In his early childhood Norris tried horse riding, quad biking and motorcycle riding before moving into karting after his father took him to watch the national British Karting Championships at age seven. He was educated at Millfield School in Street, Somerset, with his brother Oliver, leaving in year 10 to concentrate on his racing career without taking his GCSEs, opting to study physics and mathematics with a full-time personal tutor. He cites Valentino Rossi as an inspiration for his racing career.

Norris started his racing career at the age of eight, claiming pole position at his first national event. In 2013, competing in the KF-Junior class, he won the CIK-FIA European Championship, the CIK-FIA International Super Cup and the WSK Euro Series. The following year he won the CIK-FIA World Championship in the KF class with Ricky Flynn Motorsport, making him the youngest karting world champion in that category. Also in 2014 he made his car racing debut in the Ginetta Junior Championship, finishing third and claiming the Rookie Cup.

For 2015, Norris signed with Carlin Motorsport for the MSA Formula Championship, taking eight wins, ten pole positions and fourteen podiums to win the title; he also appeared in the ADAC and Italian Formula 4 championships with Mücke Motorsport. In January 2016 he won the Toyota Racing Series with M2 Competition, then returned to Europe and won both the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and the Northern European Cup with Josef Kaufmann Racing, recording ten consecutive pole positions in the latter. He also ran a part-time BRDC British Formula 3 campaign and received the Autosport BRDC Award that year. Racing full-time with Carlin in the 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, he finished on the podium in twenty of thirty races, with nine wins, and clinched the title with two races remaining. At the Macau Grand Prix that November he finished second behind Dan Ticktum.

Norris made his FIA Formula 2 debut with Campos Racing for the final round of the 2017 season at the Yas Marina Circuit. He competed full-time in the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship with Carlin, winning the opening race at the Bahrain International Circuit from pole — his only victory of the season — and finished runner-up to George Russell after recovering second place at the final round.

In February 2017, Norris joined the McLaren Driver Development Programme; Zak Brown called him "a fabulous prospect". He became McLaren's official test and reserve driver for 2018, taking part in his first official practice session at the Belgian Grand Prix and driving in six further practice sessions that year.

Norris signed for McLaren for the 2019 season, partnering Carlos Sainz Jr. He qualified eighth on his debut at the Australian Grand Prix and finished twelfth, scoring his first points with sixth place at the following Bahrain Grand Prix. He suffered retirements at the Chinese, Spanish and Canadian Grands Prix and finished the season eleventh in the championship with 49 points, out-qualifying Sainz at eleven of the twenty-one races. During his debut year he signed a multi-year contract to stay with McLaren.

At the season-opening 2020 Austrian Grand Prix, Norris set the fastest lap on the final lap to finish third, the first podium of his career, making him then the third-youngest podium finisher in Formula One history. He ended the season ninth in the Drivers' Championship with 97 points, helping McLaren claim third in the Constructors' Championship. In 2021, partnering Daniel Ricciardo, he took his first Formula One pole position in changing conditions at the Russian Grand Prix; he stayed on dry-weather tyres as rain worsened and finished seventh. He scored a string of podiums and finished sixth in the championship with 160 points, his career-best result at that point. In 2022 he extended his contract to 2025 and took the team's only podium of the season with third at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, finishing seventh in the championship.

For 2023 he was partnered by rookie Oscar Piastri. After a poor start to the season, McLaren brought a major upgrade for the Austrian Grand Prix, and Norris finished second at the British Grand Prix — the first McLaren podium at Silverstone since 2010 — followed by consecutive podiums in Hungary and a four-podium run beginning at Singapore. He scored 205 points and placed sixth in the Drivers' Championship.

Norris signed a new multi-year contract ahead of 2024. At the Miami Grand Prix he led after the leaders pitted and held off Max Verstappen at a safety-car restart to claim his maiden Grand Prix victory after 110 races, tying the record for the most podiums before a first win. He took further wins at the Dutch Grand Prix — McLaren's first at Zandvoort since Niki Lauda in 1985 — the Singapore Grand Prix, and the season-finale Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from pole, which secured McLaren's first Constructors' title since 1998. He finished runner-up in the World Drivers' Championship to Verstappen, whose title bid Norris's mathematically ended at Las Vegas.

McLaren entered 2025 as title favourites. Norris took pole and won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in wet conditions to lead the championship. After a season-long battle with teammate Piastri and Verstappen — including wins at Monaco, Austria, his first home British Grand Prix, and Hungary — he retook the championship lead at the Mexico City Grand Prix and extended it by winning the São Paulo sprint and main race. After being disqualified from second at the Las Vegas Grand Prix for a plank-wear infringement, he still held a 24-point lead with two rounds remaining. In Abu Dhabi he finished third, securing his first World Drivers' Championship. He also won the DHL Fastest Lap Award for a second successive year.

Norris remained at McLaren for 2026, with Piastri continuing as his teammate for a fourth season in a row, and exercised his right as defending champion to run the number 1 on his car. As of the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix, Norris has achieved 11 race wins, 16 pole positions, 18 fastest laps and 44 podiums in Formula One. He is contracted to remain at McLaren until at least the end of the 2027 season.

Norris made his endurance racing debut in 2018, joining United Autosports for the 24 Hours of Daytona alongside Fernando Alonso and Phil Hanson in the No. 23 Ligier JS P217, finishing thirteenth in the Prototype class; Alonso praised his "impressive speed". He competed in sim racing for Team Redline at multiple iRacing events in 2019, winning the Spa 24 Special Event alongside Verstappen, and won the fifth round of the 2020 IndyCar iRacing Challenge for Arrow McLaren at the Circuit of the Americas.

Norris founded Team Quadrant in 2020, an esports team also focused on content creation and apparel, ceding majority financial control to the Veloce Media Group in July 2025 while retaining a minority stake. In September 2021 he launched a kart racing brand, LN Racing Kart, supported by the OTK Kart Group and operated by Ricky Flynn Motorsport.

At the start of his Formula One career Norris resided in Woking, near the McLaren Technology Centre, before moving to Monte Carlo in 2022. He has been in an on-off relationship with Portuguese model and actress Margarida Corceiro since 2023. Speaking to ITV's This Morning in 2021, Norris said he had struggled with his mental health following his Formula One debut and has worked extensively with the Mind charity in partnership with McLaren; after winning his first title he credited working more closely with a sports psychologist as a key factor in his success. He regularly plays golf and was invited to play at Augusta National after winning the 2024 Miami Grand Prix.

Norris won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2025, the DHL Fastest Lap Award in 2024 and 2025, and the Lorenzo Bandini Trophy in 2023. He was named Autosport Awards British Competition Driver of the Year in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, received the Autosport BRDC Award in 2016, and was named Autosport Champion in 2026. He was listed in the 2026 edition of Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and received the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year in 2026.

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