Lando Norris | |
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Born | Bristol, England | 13 November 1999
Awards | Full list |
Formula One World Championship career | |
Nationality | British |
2025 team | McLaren-Mercedes[1] |
Car number | 4 |
Entries | 128 (128 starts) |
Championships | 0 |
Wins | 4 |
Podiums | 26 |
Career points | 1007 |
Pole positions | 9 |
Fastest laps | 12 |
First entry | 2019 Australian Grand Prix |
First win | 2024 Miami Grand Prix |
Last win | 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix |
Last entry | 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix |
2024 position | 2nd (374 pts) |
Previous series | |
Championship titles | |
Website | landonorris |
Lando Norris (born 13 November 1999) is a British racing driver, who competes in Formula One for McLaren. Norris was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2024 with McLaren, and has won four Grands Prix across six seasons.
Born in Bristol and raised in Glastonbury to an English father and Belgian mother, Norris began competitive kart racing aged seven. After a successful karting career—culminating in his victory at the direct-drive Karting World Championship in 2014—Norris graduated to junior formulae. He won his first title at the 2015 MSA Formula Championship with Carlin. He then won the Toyota Racing Series, Formula Renault Eurocup and Formula Renault NEC in 2016, receiving the Autosport BRDC Award that year. Norris won the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 2017, and finished runner-up to George Russell in the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2018, both with Carlin.
A member of the McLaren Young Driver Programme since 2017, Norris joined McLaren in 2019 to partner Carlos Sainz Jr., making his Formula One debut at the Australian Grand Prix. He achieved his maiden podium finish and fastest lap at the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix in 2020, before achieving his maiden pole position at the Russian Grand Prix in 2021, amongst several further podiums. Following another podium at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in 2022, Norris took seven podiums across his 2023 campaign. In 2024, Norris took his maiden career win at the Miami Grand Prix, repeating this feat in the Netherlands, Singapore and Abu Dhabi as he finished runner-up to Max Verstappen in the World Drivers' Championship.
As of the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Norris has achieved four race wins, nine pole positions, 12 fastest laps and 26 podiums in Formula One. Norris is set to remain at McLaren until at least the end of the 2027 season.[2]