Lando Norris
Norris in 2019 | |
Born | Bristol, United Kingdom | 13 November 1999
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Formula One World Championship career | |
Nationality | |
Car number | 4 |
Entries | 120 (120 starts) |
Championships | 0 |
Wins | 2 |
Podiums | 23 |
Career points | 874 |
Pole positions | 5 |
Fastest laps | 9 |
Previous series | |
2017–2018 2016–2017 2016 2016 2016 2016 2015 2015 2015 2015 2014 | FIA Formula 2 Championship FIA F3 European Championship Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC BRDC British Formula 3 Championship Toyota Racing Series MSA Formula BRDC Formula 4 Autumn Trophy Italian Formula 4 Championship ADAC Formula 4 Ginetta Junior Championship |
Championship titles | |
2017 2016 2016 2016 2015 | FIA F3 European Championship Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Toyota Racing Series MSA Formula |
Awards | |
2017 2016 2016 | Autosport National Driver of the Year McLaren Autosport BRDC Award Autosport British Club Driver of the Year |
Lando Norris (born 13 November 1999) is a British racing driver currently competing in Formula One, for McLaren. 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. He subsequently won the 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship. He was a member of the McLaren young driver programme.
Early life
Born in Bristol, his father is Adam Norris, a retired pensions manager[1], one of Bristol's richest people and 501st in the country.[2]
Norris was privately educated at Millfield School in Street, Somerset, leaving school before taking his GCSEs. His family later also moving to Glastonbury to allow him to become a day boarder, and hence pursue his racing career.[3]
Racing career
Early career
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.[4] 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, thereby making him the youngest karting world championship winner.
In 2014, Norris made his debut in the Ginetta Junior Championship, a support series to the BTCC where he finished third overall, winning the Rookie Cup in his first year out of karts. For 2015, Norris signed with Carlin Motorsport to drive in the newly established MSA Formula series. Norris would win the series with eight wins, ten pole positions and 14 podiums. He also made occasional appearances in the ADAC Formula 4 Championship and the Italian Formula 4 Championship with Mücke Motorsport where he enjoyed even more successes, picking up six podiums from eight starts in the former and a single podium in the latter.
For 2016, it was announced that Norris would be driving for M2 Competition in the Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand. Norris achieved six wins throughout the season, including the New Zealand Grand Prix and won the championship on his first attempt. Norris took part in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and Formula Renault 2.0 NEC series driving for Josef Kaufmann Racing in which he finished first in both series. As well as embarking on a campaign in the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship with Carlin, where he finished 8th on a part-time schedule. He also took part in the final round of the European Formula 3 Championship and the Macau Grand Prix with Carlin, finishing eleventh in the latter.
Norris raced full-time with Carlin in the 2017 European Formula 3 Championship.[5] He clinched the title in the first of three races at the Hockenheimring finale, and finishing 53 points ahead of runner-up Joel Eriksson.
He also raced for Carlin in the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship and came close to winning the title but ended up finishing runner-up to fellow Brit George Russell.
Formula One
In February 2017, Norris was signed as a junior driver with McLaren.[6] In August 2017, the Brit tested for McLaren F1 in a scheduled mid-season test. He set the second fastest lap in the second day of testing at the Hungaroring.[7] In November 2017, Norris became the official McLaren test and reserve driver for the 2018 F1 season.[8] On 24 August 2018, Norris participated in Free Practice 1 at the Belgian Grand Prix for McLaren, driving car No. 47. 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.
On 3 September 2018, Norris was announced to drive for McLaren for the 2019 Formula One World Championship, partnering Carlos Sainz Jr.[9]
Racing record
Career summary
† As Norris was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
Complete FIA Formula 3 European Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | DC | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Carlin | Volkswagen | LEC 1 |
LEC 2 |
LEC 3 |
HUN 1 |
HUN 2 |
HUN 3 |
PAU 1 |
PAU 2 |
PAU 3 |
RBR 1 |
RBR 2 |
RBR 3 |
NOR 1 |
NOR 2 |
NOR 3 |
ZAN 1 |
ZAN 2 |
ZAN 3 |
SPA 1 |
SPA 2 |
SPA 3 |
NÜR 1 |
NÜR 2 |
NÜR 3 |
IMO 1 |
IMO 2 |
IMO 3 |
HOC 1 Ret |
HOC 2 16 |
HOC 3 16 |
NC‡ | 0‡ |
2017 | Carlin | Volkswagen | SIL 1 1 |
SIL 2 9 |
SIL 3 3 |
MNZ 1 1 |
MNZ 2 2 |
MNZ 3 2 |
PAU 1 2 |
PAU 2 2 |
PAU 3 Ret |
HUN 1 8 |
HUN 2 14 |
HUN 3 3 |
NOR 1 11 |
NOR 2 1 |
NOR 3 3 |
SPA 1 1 |
SPA 2 Ret |
SPA 3 1 |
ZAN 1 1 |
ZAN 2 3 |
ZAN 3 1 |
NÜR 1 1 |
NÜR 2 2 |
NÜR 3 1 |
RBR 1 4 |
RBR 2 2 |
RBR 3 17† |
HOC 1 2 |
HOC 2 11 |
HOC 3 4 |
1st | 441 |
† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. ‡ As Norris was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | DC | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2017 | Campos Racing | BHR FEA |
BHR SPR |
CAT FEA |
CAT SPR |
MON FEA |
MON SPR |
BAK FEA |
BAK SPR |
RBR FEA |
RBR SPR |
SIL FEA |
SIL SPR |
HUN FEA |
HUN SPR |
SPA FEA |
SPA SPR |
MNZ FEA |
MNZ SPR |
JER FEA |
JER SPR |
YMC FEA Ret |
YMC SPR 13 |
25th | 0 | ||
2018 | Carlin | BHR FEA 1 |
BHR SPR 4 |
BAK FEA 6 |
BAK SPR 4 |
CAT FEA 3 |
CAT SPR 3 |
MON FEA 6 |
MON SPR 3 |
LEC FEA 16 |
LEC SPR 5 |
RBR FEA 2 |
RBR SPR 11 |
SIL FEA 10 |
SIL SPR 3 |
HUN FEA 2 |
HUN SPR 4 |
SPA FEA 4 |
SPA SPR 2 |
MNZ FEA 6 |
MNZ SPR 5 |
SOC FEA Ret |
SOC SPR Ret |
YMC FEA 5 |
YMC SPR 2 |
2nd | 219 |
Complete Formula One results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | WDC | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 | McLaren F1 Team | McLaren MCL33 | Renault R.E.18 1.6 V6 t | AUS | BHR | CHN | AZE | ESP | MON | CAN | FRA | AUT | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL TD |
ITA TD |
SIN | RUS TD |
JPN TD |
USA TD |
MEX TD |
BRA TD |
ABU | – | – |
Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results
Year | Entrant | Class | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Rank | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 | United Autosports | P | Ligier JS P217 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | DAY 13 |
SEB | LBH | MDO | DET | WGL | MOS | ELK | LGA | PET | 58th | 18 |
24 Hours of Daytona results
Year | Team | Co-drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class pos. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 | Ligier JS P217-Gibson | P | 718 | 38th | 13th |
References
- ^ Cooper, Marc (19 October 2016). "Bristol Rich List 2016 revealed: Who is worth the most money this year". bristolpost.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ^ Wilkes, Joseph (4 October 2016). "Who is Adam Norris, millionaire father of Lando Norris, McClaren's new Bristol-born Formula 1 star?". bristolpost.co.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ "Lando Norris: A Feature". sportsjournalismsgs.com. 10 January 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ^ Stuart, Greg (6 December 2016). "Lando Norris' tips on how to get into karting". Red Bull. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
- ^ Simmons, Marcus (8 December 2016). "McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner Lando Norris to European F3". Autosport. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ Khorounzhiy, Valentin (22 February 2017). "McLaren F1 team signs Lando Norris to its junior programme". Autosport. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ "Kubica fourth fastest on return as Vettel sets testing pace". ESPN F1. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ "McLaren Formula 1 – Lando Norris becomes official McLaren test and reserve driver for 2018". Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ "Lando Norris to drive for McLaren in 2019". McLaren. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
External links
- Official website
- Lando Norris career summary at DriverDB.com
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Bristol
- English racing drivers
- Toyota Racing Series drivers
- British F4 Championship drivers
- ADAC Formula 4 drivers
- Italian F4 Championship drivers
- Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 drivers
- Formula Renault 2.0 NEC drivers
- BRDC British Formula 3 Championship drivers
- FIA Formula 3 European Championship drivers
- McLaren Autosport BRDC Award nominees
- FIA Formula 2 Championship drivers
- 24 Hours of Daytona drivers
- English Formula One drivers
- McLaren Formula One drivers