Audience with Lando Norris on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 11:00

Lando Norris was appointed as McLaren’s test and reserve driver at the age of 17. An impressive performance for the team in testing at the Hungaroring in 2017 earned him the position in place of the team’s outgoing driver, 2009 world champion Jenson Button.

Norris made his debut at McLaren with relatively few expectations, after the team had suffered years of troubled form. However, his partnership there with Sainz seemed to re-energise the team and they finished fourth in the constructors’ title, with more than double the points haul of 2018.

Sainz out-scored Norris by nearly double, taking 96 of the team’s 145 points but Norris won the qualifying battle, starting races in front of his teammate eleven times over the season. Norris’ best result of the year came at the second race, in Bahrain, with a sixth-place finish.

The disruptions of coronavirus made Norris one of the stars of Formula One in 2020, when his online streaming became a popular panacea for motorsport fans deprived of racing. When the F1 season eventually restarted, he immediately saw on-track success by taking his first Formula One podium finish, becoming the youngest Briton ever to do so.

Norris also launched an esports and content brand in 2020, announcing himself as CEO of Team Quadrant two weeks before his 21st birthday.

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