Lando Norris
British and Belgian racing driver (born 1999) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lando Norris (born 13 November 1999) is a British and Belgian[2] racing driver currently competing in Formula One with McLaren, racing under the British flag.
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 joined the McLaren Young Driver Programme in 2017 and won the 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, competing with Carlin Motorsport. 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 2024 Chinese Grand Prix, he holds the record for the most podiums without a win (15), and shares the record for most second-place finishes without a win (8) with Nick Heidfeld.