Lando Norris Quotes

The first time I used a simulator was in 2014 when I was competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.

It seems like F1 is kind of going down that route, opening it up more to the public and letting them know what is going on, what you do, instead of just driving and going home.

I’m definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.

I’m loving my role as a McLaren Young Driver, spending time in the simulator at the McLaren Technology Centre and attending some Grands Prix with the team.

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

On the sim at home, you can change downforce levels, roll bars, springs, ride heights – you can try all these different things.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

I started off with sim driving, playing ‚Gran Turismo,‘ and my Dad had some sort of Logitech steering wheel with pedals for the PlayStation 2.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

I raced with my brother from when I started to 2014 when I finished karting.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

When I was five – it’s not even bad – I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

F2’s much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I’ve had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

A team like McLaren doesn’t want to keep changing drivers at a time when they’re developing the car. They want consistency.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you’ve got to start saving. It’s not easy.

My dad kind of liked racing and motorsports, but wasn’t a big fan, it wasn’t like he watched every race or whatever.

I think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

You can only get to a certain point when you feel confident with the simulator and it always changes when you get to the track and you actually drive it for real for the first time.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

I think Weetabix and full-fat milk is what it is all about.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

The ‚Pro-Sim‘ is pretty much the best simulator you can buy, because of the steering motor and the pedals. The force feedback we get through the steering is pretty much exactly the same as what we get in the actual car in terms of how heavy it is.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I don’t drink at all.

No driver is perfect.