FIELD	VALUE
TEAM	McLaren
COUNTRY	United Kingdom
PODIUMS	49
CAREER POINTS	1616
GRANDS PRIX ENTERED	165
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS	1
POLE POSITIONS	19
HIGHEST RACE FINISH	1 (x13)
HIGHEST GRID POSITION	1 (x19)
DATE OF BIRTH	13/11/1999
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bristol, England

Lando Norris, whose full name is Lando Norris Adam, was born on November 13, 1999 in Bristol, England. From an early age, he showed great interest and passion for motorsports, following in the footsteps of his family, which has a strong connection to the world of business and finance. Norris demonstrated his talent from a very young age in karting, where he competed at national and international level, winning several titles and drawing the attention of major motorsport teams. His rapid rise through the junior categories led him to sign with McLaren's driver development programme, a step that would prove decisive in shaping his future in Formula 1.

Lando Norris began karting at the age of seven and quickly established himself as one of the most gifted young talents in British motorsport. He won multiple karting titles across national and international competitions, catching the eye of Formula 1 teams well before he was old enough to race in the senior categories. In 2015, he made the transition to single-seaters with the MSA Formula championship, which he won convincingly in his debut season. That first title launched a remarkable run of success in the junior categories.

In 2016, Norris won the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup and finished second in the Eurocup. The following year he stepped up to the European Formula 3 championship and dominated it, winning the title with McLaren support. In 2018, he moved to the FIA Formula 2 Championship, finishing second overall in his debut season — a result impressive enough to earn him a Formula 1 seat at McLaren for 2019. He had been on the McLaren junior programme since 2017, and the team wasted no time promoting him to the race seat when the opportunity came.

2019

Norris made his Formula 1 debut with McLaren at the age of 19, becoming one of the youngest drivers on the grid. He scored points on multiple occasions and showed flashes of genuine pace that made clear he was far more than just a promising rookie. He finished eighth in the Drivers' Championship, a strong result for a first-year driver in a car that was not yet capable of fighting for wins.

2020

Norris continued to impress in his second season, scoring more points and claiming his first podium at the Austrian Grand Prix. He finished ninth in the championship and demonstrated his ability to extract everything from the MCL35, regularly outperforming the car's theoretical potential. His connection with the team grew stronger through the shortened pandemic season.

2021

A breakthrough year for Norris and McLaren. He came close to winning the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi, leading convincingly before late rain caught him out when he stayed out too long on slicks. He finished sixth in the Drivers' Championship with 160 points, McLaren's best collective result in years as they finished third in the Constructors' standings.

2022

Norris remained with McLaren as the team transitioned to the new ground-effect regulations. Despite a difficult first half of the season with an underperforming MCL36, he finished seventh in the Drivers' Championship with 122 points. His pace and work rate continued to make him one of the most respected drivers in the paddock.

2023

McLaren's in-season development transformed the MCL60 from a midfield car into a genuine race-winner. Norris won his first Formula 1 race at the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort, taking the lead from Verstappen late in the race. He finished sixth in the Drivers' Championship with 205 points, and McLaren ended the season as the second-fastest team.

2024

Norris challenged Verstappen for the title deep into the season, winning four races including Miami and Singapore. He finished second in the Drivers' Championship with 374 points, just 47 behind Verstappen. McLaren won the Constructors' Championship for the first time since 1998. A disqualification in Las Vegas cost him a fifth win that year, but the momentum was building unmistakably.

2025

He won in Australia on the first weekend, in the rain, holding off Verstappen to the flag. Seven wins in total across the season. Eighteen podiums. Four hundred and twenty-three points. A disqualification in Las Vegas briefly put Verstappen back in range, but Norris won the title at Abu Dhabi with a race to spare. First for a McLaren driver since Lewis Hamilton in 2008. Britain's first new champion since Jenson Button in 2009. He had been saying for years he was ready for this. Turns out he was right.

2026

Defending the title has been anything but straightforward. Norris opened with a podium-adjacent fifth in Australia and a non-start in China, then alternated between flashes of the pace that won him the 2025 crown and races where the car — or luck — didn't cooperate, including retirements in Canada and Monaco. The turnaround came in the second half of the year: a podium at Barcelona-Catalunya, a strong fourth at Great Britain, and then back-to-back wins at Hungary and Netherlands that pulled him firmly back into title contention. He kept the momentum going with a fourth at Monza and a pole-to-podium third at the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid. Through fourteen rounds he sits fourth in the championship with 186 points, extended his McLaren contract through 2030 along the way, and looks every bit the driver capable of defending what he won last year.

YEAR	POS.	TEAM	CHASIS	ENGINE	TYRES	VIC.	POLE	V.R.	POINTS	GPS
2026	4	MCLAREN	MCL40	MERCEDES	PIRELLI	2	3	0	186	14
2025	1	MCLAREN	MCL39	MERCEDES	PIRELLI	7	4	5	423	24
2024	2	MCLAREN	MCL38	MERCEDES	PIRELLI	4	8	6	374	24
2023	6	MCLAREN	MCL60	MERCEDES	PIRELLI	0	0	1	205	22
2022	7	MCLAREN	MCL36	MERCEDES	PIRELLI	0	0	2	122	22
2021	6	MCLAREN	MCL35M	MERCEDES	PIRELLI	0	1	1	160	22
2020	9	MCLAREN	MCL35	RENAULT	PIRELLI	0	0	2	97	17
2019	8	MCLAREN	MCL34	RENAULT	PIRELLI	0	0	0	49	21

RACE	DATE	TEAM	ENGINE	POS	PTS
AUSTRALIA	08 MAR	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	5	10
CHINA	15 MAR	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	DNS	5
JAPAN	29 MAR	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	5	10
MIAMI	03 MAY	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	2	26
CANADA	24 MAY	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	DNF	7
MONACO	07 JUN	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	DNF	0
BARCELONA-CATALUNYA	14 JUN	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	3	15
AUSTRIA	28 JUN	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	7	6
GREAT BRITAIN	05 JUL	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	4	18
BELGIUM	19 JUL	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	7	6
HUNGARY	26 JUL	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	1	25
NETHERLANDS	23 AUG	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	1	31
ITALY	06 SEP	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	4	12
SPAIN	13 SEP	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	3	15