Lando Norris

A firm favourite among F1 fans, Norris has earned a loyal following with his witty approach to media engagements, his active interactions on social media and regular appearances on gaming streams.

However, it is on track where Norris has successfully built on the great promise shown through the junior ranks to emerge as one of the most exciting propositions among F1’s ‘new generation’ of racers, and potential world championship material.

Indeed, Norris’ burgeoning star quality was evident long before his F1 debut in 2019, with his name being mentioned in high-profile circles by the time he’d progressed from karting, where he became the youngest CIK-FIA World Champion in 2014.

He went on to clinch more silverware on his graduation to open-wheel racing with titles in the MSA Formula (2015), Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 (2016) and FIA European Formula 3 (2017) coming in his rookie campaigns.

Though George Russell would halt his clean sweep upon making his Formula 2 debut in 2018 with Carlin, his race-winning route to the runners-up spot was enough to convince McLaren - with whom he represented in its Young Driver Programme - to promote him to an F1 drive for 2019.

Partnering up with Carlos Sainz in 2019, he finished 11th in his rookie season. 2020 saw him take his maiden podium at the Austrian GP.

In 2021, he partnered up with Daniel Ricciardo, and came cose to taking his first race win in Russia. Norris had qualified on pole, and led the race until it began to rain. Norris opted to stay on slicks whereas others pitted for inters, and Norris ultimately went off and was forced to pit, resulting in a seventh-placed finish.

2022 hailed seventh in the championship finish, and in 2023, he gained a new team-mate in rookie Oscar Piastri. He finished sixth in the championship that year.

2024 saw Norris’ most successful F1 season to date, with the Brit being thrown into a championship clash with Verstappen mid-season. He claimed his maiden F1 victory in Miami, and a further three throughout the rest of the season. While he came close to Verstappen, the Red Bull driver was just out of reach, wrapping up the title in Las Vegas.

However, his good performances along with those of team-mate Piastri meant McLaren claimed their first constructors’ championship victory since 1998 at the season finale in Abu Dhabi, which Norris won.

2024 - McLaren

2nd - 374 points

Norris’ 2024 campaign was his most successful in F1 so far, ultimately finishing second in the championship and taking four victories.

He began the season well, but was not challenging for wins immediately off the bat. He took third in Australia, and second in China, before McLaren delivered a series of upgrades to the car which upped his performance.

Norris qualified in fifth for the grand prix, before inheriting the lead as those ahead of him pitted. A well-timed safety car allowed him to change his tyres and retain the lead, which he successfully kept to take his first F1 victory, finishing 7.6 seconds ahead of Verstappen in second.

From then on, Norris was consistently challenging at the front of the field, including in Austria, where he was battling with Verstappen for the lead of the race. The pair came together at Turn 3, resulting in punctures for both drivers. Norris ended up retiring from the race, while Verstappen finished in fifth.

Norris continued to challenge Verstappen, including taking victory at Verstappen’s home race in the Netherlands, and a further victory in Singapore. After a dramatic Mexican GP, during which Verstappen received two separate 10-second penalties for forcing Norris off the track, Norris was at his closest to Verstappen, 47 points behind.

However, Verstappen’s impressive 17th-to-first drive in Brazil saw the Dutchman all but win the title, only needing to outperform Norris in Las Vegas to take it. Verstappen finished one place ahead of Norris, so clinched the championship.

But while the battle for the drivers’ title was over, the constructors’ was still up for grabs. A victory at the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi for Norris saw McLaren take their first constructors’ since 1998.

2023 - McLaren  

6th – 205 points  

After a rocky start to the season Lando Norris was able to bring home seven podiums for the McLaren. Norris came second at the British Grand Prix, after leading his home race for four laps, and was the first McLaren driver to get a podium at the Silverstone Circuit since Lewis Hamilton in 2010. 

The British driver then took second place at the Hungarian Grand Prix, his first consecutive podiums in Formula 1. He then added additional excitement to the trophy ceremony when he accidentally broke Verstappen’s first place trophy - a handmade Herand worth £34,577 = during his trophy celebration.  

Norris also secured four consecutive podiums starting with second place at the Singapore and Japanese grands prix and then came third at the Qatar and United States grands prix. 

2022 - McLaren F1 Team

7th - 122 points

While McLaren’s initial failure to get on top of the MCL36’s handling issues upon F1’s transition to radical new technical regulations left Norris playing catch up during the early stages of the 2022 F1 season, his form picked up as more upgrades were applied.

Though limited to just a single podium - at Imola once again - Norris reached the points in all but five of the 22 races, helping him on to seventh in the final standings.

Lando Norris, McLaren, 2nd position, Zak Brown, CEO, McLaren Racing, and Daniel Ricciardo, McLaren, 1st position, with their trophies

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2021 - McLaren F1 Team

6th - 160 points

Buoyed by McLaren’s switch to more dependable and quicker Mercedes V6 Hybrid power units for the new season, Norris took another step forward in 2021.

Failing to score in just two of the 22 races, Norris was a regular visitor to the podium with third place finishes in Imola, Monaco and Austria.

Despite missing out on the chance of a first F1 win in the Italian Grand Prix in order to protect a 1-2 finish for the team behind Daniel Ricciardo, second place at Monza signalled a career-best finish and spurred him onto sixth overall.

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL35, celebrates his podium finish

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2020 - McLaren F1 Team

9th - 97 points

After his promising rookie campaign, Norris affirmed his reputation with a stellar sophomore campaign in 2020.

Producing one of the performances of the year outright in the delayed 2020 F1 opener at the Red Bull Ring, Norris - running fourth on the road - was pitched into contention for a maiden podium after Lewis Hamilton ahead was handed a five-second post-race penalty.

After coming into the final lap just over five seconds adrift of the Mercedes driver, Norris’ storming fastest lap on the last revolution got the gap down to just below the magic marker, thus securing him a maiden F1 podium.

Following it up a week later with a fifth place finish at the same venue - after passing three cars on the final two laps - Norris went on to crack the top ten in 13 of the 17 races, seven of which were classified inside the top six.

He ended the season in ninth overall, just eight points shy of the top six.

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL34

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2019 - McLaren F1 Team

11th - 49 points

Following in the footsteps of Lewis Hamilton, Kevin Magnussen and Stoffel Vandoorne to become the latest McLaren Young Driver protege to be promoted into F1, Norris formed one-half of a fresh line-up with Carlos Sainz.

He quickly adapted to the rigours of F1, scoring a best finish of the season in only his second race in Bahrain, a result he’d repeat later in the year in Austria.

In all, 11 points finishes helped McLaren to fourth in the constructors’ standings - its best result since 2012 - even if better results go wanting in frustrating circumstances, such as a power unit issue in the Belgian Grand Prix that dropped him from fifth to 11th on the final lap and a late collision with Alex Albon at Suzuka that also scuppered a top five finish.

Lando Norris F1 Racing Record