![]() ![]() Racing career Early career Norris racing for Mücke Motorsport in Formula 4 in 2015 Norris has stated he and his now former girlfriend were subject to abuse and death threats from online trolls. īetween August 2021 and September 2022, Norris was dating Portuguese model Luisa Oliveira. Īt the start of his F1 career he initially resided in Woking near the McLaren team headquarters, but later moved to Monaco in 2022, for financial reasons. His family later moved to Glastonbury to allow him to become a day pupil, and to pursue his racing career, citing Valentino Rossi as an inspiration. He left school without taking his GCSEs, but studied physics and mathematics with a full-time personal tutor. Norris was educated at Millfield School in Street, Somerset. Norris in his early childhood tried horse riding, then quad biking and motorcycle riding before moving into karting after his father took him to watch the national British Karting Championships at age seven. Norris holds both British and Belgian citizenship, and speaks a small amount of Flemish Dutch. He has three siblings, of whom he is the second oldest: younger sisters Flo and Cisca, and an older brother Oliver, who was also involved in karting on a competitive level, until 2014. His mother Cisca ( née Wauman) is from the Flanders region of Belgium. His father is a retired pensions manager, and is one of Bristol's wealthiest people as well as the 501st-richest person in the country (as of 2018). Lando Norris was born in Bristol, to Adam and Cisca Norris. He achieved his first podium in Formula One at the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix. He was then announced as a McLaren driver in 2018, alongside Carlos Sainz Jr. ![]() Consequently, he was promoted to the Formula 2 Carlin team, where he finished second in 2018. He subsequently joined the McLaren Young Driver Programme in 2017 and won the 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, competing with Carlin Motorsport. He also received the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award that year. 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. Lando Norris (born 13 November 1999) is a British and Belgian racing driver currently competing in Formula One with McLaren, racing under the British flag. Autosport British Competition Driver of the YearĪutosport British Club Driver of the Year ![]()
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