Lando Norris says he’s moved on from his contentious yellow flag penalty in Qatar – but he fears that could yet be a “bad consequence” if McLaren misses out on the Formula 1 constructors’ title due to the lost points. Norris was given a 10 second stop and go penalty...
Lando Norris has apologised to his McLaren Formula 1 team for his costly penalty in the Qatar GP - while also insisting that he’s “not an idiot” and was unaware of the double yellow flag situation. Norris was caught out when a mirror fell off Alex Albon’s Williams...
Lando Norris says he made up his mind in Brazil to pay back McLaren Formula 1 team mate Oscar Piastri for his help by handing him a sprint win should circumstances arise. Race leader Norris moved over coming out of the final corner of Saturday’s sprint in Qatar and...
Lando Norris believes that his McLaren Formula 1 team will head into the 2025 season knowing that it can fight for the title “from round one." This year the Woking team began to gain momentum after introducing an upgrade package in Miami, where Norris scored his...
McLaren boss Andrea Stella says that the team learned valuable lessons in Las Vegas after Lando Norris “tried something extreme” in the final stint. The team had been struggling with front graining, but in the latter part of the race Norris found more performance...
Lando Norris says he has “less to lose” now that the gap to World Championship leader Max Verstappen has grown to 62 points. At the last race in Brazil Verstappen won while Norris fell back to sixth place having started from pole. Norris: "I have less to lose now" The...
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has no regrets on the decision to pit both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri for fresh intermediate tyres under the virtual safety car in Brazil. Piastri was running seventh when the VSC emerged, and his position on track meant that...
Oscar Piastri says braking issues and an overall lack of speed in the latter stages contributed to a “tough day” at Interlagos that saw the McLaren driver finish in eighth place. While team mate Lando Norris took pole Piastri could manage only P8 in the wet Q3...
Lando Norris insists that he has no regrets about pitting for tyres under the VSC in the Sao Paulo GP before a red flag gave rivals a free tyre change. However the McLaren driver called the regulation that allows such changes “a silly rule that no one agrees with.”...
A tyre controversy has emerged over the Interlagos F1 weekend that adds yet another layer to the battle between Red Bull and McLaren has the title battle hots up. Red Bull has suggested that some teams – potentially including McLaren – could be gaining an advantage by...
Lando Norris says that he hasn’t spoken to Max Verstappen since their most recent on-track clash in the Mexico City GP – and he insists that the Dutchman “knows what he did wrong.” Verstappen received two 10-second penalties for his moves on Norris when the McLaren...
Oscar Piastri says it was tougher than he had expected to get through the field in the Formula 1 Mexico City GP, and that he suffered from rarely being able to run in clear air. The McLaren driver started only 187th after a mistake in qualifying, and was one of the...
Red Bull boss Christian Horner says that Max Verstappen will “always drive aggressively” within the current FIA Formula 1 driving guidelines. Horner also suggested that those guidelines encourage drivers to dive down the outside into corners even if they are likely to...
Lando Norris says his battle with Max Verstappen in Mexico City was “not fair, clean racing” and that the Dutchman “got what he had coming to him” when he was penalised by the FIA stewards. Just seven days after their controversial incident in Austin triggered a...
Oscar Piastri will start the Formula 1 Mexico City GP from 17th GP after what he called “a very silly mistake” late in Q1. The McLaren driver ran wide at Turn 12 and had his lap deleted, but he actually lost time going off, and ultimately it wouldn’t have got him into...
The McLaren Formula 1 team disagrees with the decision of the US GP stewards to reject its request for a right of review into the five-second penalty handed to Lando Norris in Austin. The request was a last roll of the dice by the Woking team to try to reverse the...
