Background and career
Lando Norris ( ; born 13 November 1999) is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for McLaren. Norris won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2025 with McLaren, and has won 13 Grands Prix across eight seasons.
Born in Bristol and raised near Glastonbury to an English father and Belgian mother, Norris began competitive kart racing aged eight. After a successful karting career—culminating in his victory at the senior World Championship in 2014—Norris graduated to junior formulae. He won his first title at the 2015 MSA Formula Championship with Carlin. He then won the Toyota Racing Series, Formula Renault Eurocup, and Formula Renault NEC in 2016, receiving the Autosport BRDC Award that year. Norris won the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 2017, and finished runner-up to George Russell in the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2018, both with Carlin.
A member of the McLaren Young Driver Programme since 2017, Norris joined McLaren in 2019 to partner Carlos Sainz Jr., making his Formula One debut at the Australian Grand Prix. He achieved his maiden podium finish and fastest lap at the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix in 2020, before achieving his maiden pole position at the Russian Grand Prix in 2021, amongst several further podiums. Following another podium in 2022, he took seven across his 2023 campaign. In 2024, Norris achieved his maiden win at the Miami Grand Prix, repeating this feat three times as he finished runner-up to Max Verstappen in the World Drivers' Championship. He took seven further victories in 2025, including his home Grand Prix in Britain, as he won his maiden title in a battle with Verstappen and teammate Oscar Piastri.
Norris was listed in the 2026 edition of Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He won the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year in 2026. In the same year, Norris co-founded LN4 Fusion, a junior single-seater racing team. As of the 2026 United States Grand Prix, Norris has achieved 13 race wins, 19 pole positions, 20 fastest laps, and 49 podiums in Formula One. He is contracted to remain at McLaren until at least the end of the 2030 season.
Norris was born on 13 November 1999 in Bristol, England and later grew up near Glastonbury on a small farm. His father, Adam Norris, was the managing director of Pensions Direct, the pension arm of Hargreaves Lansdown, which grew into UK's largest retailer of pensions. He is the founder and CEO of the e-scooter company Pure Electric. His mother, Cisca Norris (née Wauman), is from the Flanders region of Belgium near Sint-Niklaas and gave him the name "Lando". Norris holds both British and Belgian citizenship and speaks a small amount of Dutch. He has three siblings—two younger sisters and an older brother, who was also involved in Kart racing on a competitive level until 2014.
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Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth, in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
