Lando Norris

In the main race, he progressed from 27th on the grid to finish 11th.

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

In 2013, Norris competed in KF-Junior class, winning the CIK-FIA European Championship and the CIK-FIA International Super Cup, as well as the WSK Euro Series.

The following year he won the CIK-FIA World Championship in KF class with Ricky Flynn Motorsport, making him the youngest karting world champion in that category.

He has three siblings, of whom he is the second oldest: younger sisters Flo and Cisca, and an older brother Oliver, who was also involved in karting on a competitive level until 2014.

Norris holds both British and Belgian citizenship, and speaks a small amount of Flemish Dutch.

In his early childhood, Norris tried horse riding, then quad biking and motorcycle riding before moving into karting after his father took him to watch the national British Karting Championships at age seven.

Norris was educated at Millfield School in Street, Somerset.

He left school without taking his GCSEs, but studied physics and mathematics with a full-time personal tutor.

His family later moved to Glastonbury to allow him to become a day pupil, and to pursue his racing career, citing Valentino Rossi as an inspiration.

At the start of his F1 career he initially resided in Woking near the McLaren team headquarters, but later moved to Monaco in 2022, for financial reasons.

Between August 2021 and September 2022, Norris was dating Portuguese model Luisa Oliveira.

Norris has stated he and his now former girlfriend were subject to abuse and death threats from online trolls.

Norris started his racing career at the age of seven when he claimed pole position at his first national event.

In 2014, Norris made his car racing debut in the Ginetta Junior Championship, a support series to the British Touring Car Championship.

He finished third in the championship, winning four races and claiming the Rookie Cup.

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.

He also received the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award that year.

For 2015, Norris signed with Carlin Motorsport to drive in the newly established MSA Formula Championship (now known as the F4 British Championship).

Norris took eight wins, ten pole positions, and fourteen total podiums to win the championship ahead of Ricky Collard and Colton Herta.

He also made occasional appearances in the ADAC and Italian Formula 4 championships with Mücke Motorsport where he claimed six podiums from eight starts in the former.

In January 2016, Norris travelled to New Zealand to compete in the Toyota Racing Series with the M2 Competition team.

He achieved six race wins, including the New Zealand Grand Prix, and won the championship ahead of Jehan Daruvala.

Norris then returned to Europe to race in the Formula Renault 2.0 category with Josef Kaufmann Racing, competing in both the Eurocup and Northern European Cup.

He won both series, taking eleven race wins in total and recording ten consecutive pole positions in the latter.

At the same time, Norris embarked on a part-time campaign in the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship and claimed four wins in eleven races.

In October he made a guest appearance in the final round of the European Formula 3 Championship at the Hockenheimring in preparation for the Macau Grand Prix in November.

Norris placed ninth in qualifying in Macau but was eliminated from the qualification race after crashing on the first lap.

He subsequently joined the McLaren Young Driver Programme in 2017 and won the 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, competing with Carlin Motorsport.

Norris raced full-time with Carlin in the 2017 European Formula 3 Championship, and faced competition from Joel Eriksson, Maximilian Günther and Callum Ilott for the championship title.

Norris finished on the podium in twenty of the thirty races, including nine wins, and recorded eight pole positions.

He clinched the title with two races remaining, marking his fifth racing championship title in four years.

In November, Norris made his second appearance at the Macau Grand Prix.

He was classified second in qualifying but dropped to seventh in the qualification race.

Consequently, he was promoted to the Formula 2 Carlin team, where he finished second in 2018.

He was then announced as a McLaren driver in 2018, alongside Carlos Sainz Jr.. He achieved his first podium in Formula One at the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix.

As of the 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, he jointly holds the record (along with Nick Heidfeld) for the most podiums without a win (13).

Lando Norris was born in Bristol to Adam and Cisca Norris.

His father is a retired pensions manager, and is one of Bristol's wealthiest people as well as the 501st-richest person in the country (as of 2018).

His mother Cisca (née Wauman) is from the Flanders region of Belgium.