Lando Norris

Lando Norris (born 13 November 1999) is a Belgian-British racing driver currently competing in Formula One with McLaren, racing under the British flag.

He won the MSA Formula championship in 2015, and the Toyota Racing Series, Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup in 2016.

Childhood

Born in Bristol, his father Adam Norris is a retired pensions manager, one of Bristol's richest people and 501st richest in the country. His mother Cisca (nee Wauman) is from the Flanders region of Belgium,He is the second oldest alongside three siblings, with two younger sisters Flo and Cisca, and an older brother Oliver who was also involved in karting on a competitive level.Norris holds both British and Belgian citizenship, and speaks a small amount of Flemish Dutch.

Norris was privately educated at Millfield School in Street, Somerset, leaving school without taking his GCSEs. During that time he studied physics and mathematics with a full-time personal tutor. His family later also moved to Glastonbury to allow him to become a day boarder, and hence pursue his racing career

A Star in the making

After initially developing an interest in motorcycle racing, Norris's attention switched from two wheels to four after his father took him and his brother to watch a round of the Super 1 National Kart Championships at his local kart track. He started his racing career at the age of seven when he claimed pole position at his first national event. In 2013, Norris won in the World Karting Championships held in Bahrain, the WSK Euro Series and the CIK-FIA European and CIK-FIA Supercup titles. The following year he won the CIK-FIA KF World Championship, with Ricky Flynn Motorsport, thereby making him the youngest karting world championship winner

The Move to mclaren

In early 2017, Norris was signed as a junior driver with McLaren.Later that year, Norris tested for McLaren in a scheduled mid-season test. He set the second fastest lap in the second day of testing at the Hungaroring. In late 2017, Norris became the official McLaren test and reserve driver for the 2018 season. Norris participated in his first official practice session at the Belgian Grand Prix. He ran 26 laps in the session, and finished the session in 18th position out of 20 cars, also outperforming the best lap time of the other McLaren car, driven by full-time McLaren driver Stoffel Vandoorne. In 2019 Be was promoted to 2nd driver for mclaren

Lando Norris Now

At the opening race in Austria Norris qualified in 4th place but was elevated to 3rd after a grid penalty for Lewis Hamilton, the highest grid position of his career and the highest for McLaren since the 2016 Austrian Grand Prix. In the race Hamilton was issued a five second penalty after a collision with Alexander Albon, requiring Norris to finish within five seconds of Hamilton in order to be classified on the podium.[22] He crossed the line in 4th place but was promoted to 3rd after setting the fastest lap to finish 4.802 seconds behind Hamilton. This marked Norris' first podium in Formula One and his first fastest lap, which came on the final lap of the race.This marks Norris as the third youngest driver to stand on the podium in Formula One history. At the Styrian Grand Prix, Norris qualified sixth but was awarded a three place grid penalty after an incident in free practice. He overtook three cars (Daniel Ricciardo, Lance Stroll, and Sergio Pérez) in the final two laps of the race to finish fifth, and maintain third in the drivers' championship standings. Norris finished the Italian Grand Prix in fourth position, two places behind teammate Sainz. Norris then finished the following Tuscan Grand Prix in 6th place. Norris then followed in the by failing to any score at points ithe Russian, Eifel Grands. During the Portuguese Grand Prix Norris collided with Stroll at turn 1. Immediately after the incident Norris had referred to Stroll as a "cunt" on the radio before apolgising over the radio. Norris then later said he would be minded to stay away from Stroll and that Stroll never seemed to "learn anything". After the Grands Prix Norris apoligised for his comments during the race weekend, noting that he "[hadn't] shown the respect I should have to certain people". Although Norris did not specify which comments he apologised for, pundits speculated that they could have been for his comments about Stroll, his dismissive comments regarding Hamilton's record for most Grands Prix victories or both.

2021 Norris is due to remain at McLaren for 2021, partnering Daniel Ricciardo who will replace Sainz.