Lando Norris Quotes

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

My favourite car I drove in the ‚shoot out‘ at Silverstone was the 2016 Mercedes DTM car. I loved every moment in it, the downforce being particularly surprising.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

I kind of look up to Lewis, not as a hero, but as a very good driver who is very fast. Everyone has to admire his pace, especially in qualifying. He is a driver I support, in terms of him being British, and I want him to win, but he isn’t an idol to me.

I focus on my own job.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

I started off riding motorbikes and at that point my hero was Valentino Rossi.

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking ‚that is what I want to do.‘

It’s not like I’m nervous of people seeing what I can or can’t do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.

I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn’t think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

I don’t like going to the gym. My biggest focus is the neck and endurance. I wear this ‚Fifty Shades of Grey‘ harness, with a resistance trainer pulling against it.

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

There’s so many bits on a car these days it’s hard to know where everything is. You have a bit of an idea but if you are behind someone and you suddenly change direction it’s hard to know exactly where the car is.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

I liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Joining McLaren didn’t add a lot of pressure but of course you want to make sure you can impress them.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

I had to drive with a roof in LMP2, and I managed to get used to that quite quickly – although it’s still not a Halo, it’s still different to what I’m used to.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.