Lando Norris

Lando Norris is a British racing driver, born in Bristol on 13 November 1999, who competes in Formula One for McLaren. ¹ He won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2025 with McLaren, after taking his maiden Grand Prix victory at Miami in 2024. ¹

Norris was born in Bristol and raised near Glastonbury, in Somerset, to an English father and a Belgian mother. ¹ He began competitive kart racing aged eight, and after a successful karting career — culminating in his victory at the senior World Championship in 2014 — graduated to junior formulae. ¹

Norris won his first car-racing title in the 2015 MSA Formula Championship with Carlin, then won the Toyota Racing Series, the Formula Renault Eurocup and the Formula Renault NEC in 2016, receiving the Autosport BRDC Award that year. ¹ He won the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 2017 and finished runner-up in the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2018, both with Carlin. ¹ A member of the McLaren Young Driver Programme since 2017, he made his Formula One debut at the 2019 Australian Grand Prix, took his maiden podium at the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix and his maiden pole position at the 2021 Russian Grand Prix. ¹ In 2024 he achieved his maiden win at the Miami Grand Prix and finished runner-up in the World Drivers' Championship; in 2025 he took seven further victories, including his home race in Britain, to win his maiden title. ¹

Norris won his maiden Formula One title in 2025 after finishing runner-up the year before, a rise the Arabic article likewise records, and he was listed in the 2026 edition of Time among the 100 most influential people in the world. ^{1 2 3}

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