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‘You’re going to see more chaos in races where…’: Formula One champion Lando Norris on new rules in F1 | Motor-sport News

‘You’re going to see more chaos in races where…’: Formula One champion Lando Norris on new rules in F1 | Motor-sport News

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4 min readFeb 5, 2026 09:34 PM IST Last year’s Formula One season saw Lando Norris winning his maiden F1’s world championship title with a tally of 423 points. The 26-year-old, who has been racing for McLaren since 2019, will be racing for McLaren in his eighth year as a Formula One driver this season. With Formula One seeing plenty of changes under the new Formula One rules with one of the major rule changes being the internal combustion engine’s output being reduced with electric motor’s output being tripled and cars having less downforce and tighter control over turbulent air, this season will see the drivers racing with the new technology. Sharing his views about the new rules, Norris believes that there will be ‘more chaos’ in the races’ with it happening through the whole year. “You’re going to see more chaos in races where a driver has to be a little bit more on top of all of these different situations that can happen. And that will happen throughout the whole year, I would …

Lando Norris wins his maiden F1 World Championship, becomes first McLaren title winner since 2008 | Motor-sport News

Lando Norris wins his maiden F1 World Championship, becomes first McLaren title winner since 2008 | Motor-sport News

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Lando Norris finished third in the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP and thus won the Formula World Drivers’ Championship for the first time in his career, ending Red Bull’s Max Verstappen’s hold on the title. Norris is the first McLaren driver to have won the title since Lewis Hamilton in 2008. Norris only needed to finish on the podium of the season-ending race to seal the victory and he finished third, behind teammate Oscar Piastri in second and race-winner Verstappen. In keeping with his late season rally, Verstappen won his third race in a row. He has won more races (eight) than any driver this year. Norris, who becomes the 11th British driver to win the title, ended the season with 423 points to Verstappen’s 421 and Piastri’s 410. Verstappen has held the title since 2021, having won it four consecutive times after ending Hamilton’s and Mercedes’ record breaking grip on it. Norris’ victory makes it the first time since 2009 that a driver racing for a team outside of Red Bull or Mercedes won the …

Red Bull voices regret over claims Kimi Antonelli let Lando Norris pass him at Qatar Grand Prix

Red Bull voices regret over claims Kimi Antonelli let Lando Norris pass him at Qatar Grand Prix

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Formula One team Red Bull Racing expressed regret on Monday following “clearly incorrect” comments alleging that Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli had let Lando Norris past at the Qatar Grand Prix, influencing the Formula 1 title fight. Standings leader Norris was in fifth place behind Antonelli toward the end of Sunday’s race when the Italian slid wide and Norris overtook him for fourth place. That allowed the McLaren driver to stay 12 points in front of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen ahead of the season finale this week in Abu Dhabi. Verstappen’s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase suggested to the Dutch four-time champion over the radio that it seemed Antonelli had let Norris pass him, and Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko claimed Antonelli “waved him by” in comments to Sky Sport Germany. “Comments made before the end of and immediately after the Qatar GP suggesting that Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli had deliberately allowed Lando Norris to overtake him are clearly incorrect,” Red Bull posted on social media Monday. “Replay footage shows Antonelli momentarily losing control of his car, thus …

Formula 1: Lando Norris says he’s relaxed despite lead thinning and Oscar Piastri, Max Verstappen just 24 points behind him | Motor-sport News

Formula 1: Lando Norris says he’s relaxed despite lead thinning and Oscar Piastri, Max Verstappen just 24 points behind him | Motor-sport News

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Lando Norris holds the lead in the Formula 1 driver’s championship with just two more races to go, including this weekend’s race where there are 33 points on offer, with an additional eight from Saturday’s sprint race. But after being stripped off the 18 points he had earned from crossing the line in second place over last weekend, he’s acutely aware of the duo chasing him — teammate Oscar Piastri and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen — who are just 24 points behind. “Of course it hurts (to lose the points due to disqualification). But actually I found it quite easy just to move on,” said Norris, who has overhauled teammate Piastri to leap into the season lead. “I feel as relaxed as I was before, when I was 35 points behind (Piastri), and I feel the same when I’m 24 points ahead. That’s my strength for now.” The 26-year-old Norris, who drives for McLaren, knows that the equation heading into this weekend’s race at Qatar’s Lusail track is simple: he will clinch the Formula 1 …

Amid Lando Norris’s Monaco Grand Prix win, Formula One teams call for track changes | Motor-sport News

Amid Lando Norris’s Monaco Grand Prix win, Formula One teams call for track changes | Motor-sport News

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While McLaren driver Lando Norris won the Monaco Grand Prix after starting at the front from the start amid the mandatory two pit stop rule by the FIA at the race track, there have been calls by Formula One teams to consider layout changes for the 1929 built race track. The track, which has been hosting Formula One races since 1950, has almost no spots where drivers can overtake and Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has urged FIA to ‘move with the times ultimately’. “The fundamental problem is you cannot overtake here. The cars are so big now that you just don’t have a chance to get alongside. It’s circuit specific, we’ve known that, it’s been on the calendar for 72 years. Everything has to move with the times ultimately. It’s an iconic and historic circuit but if you look at how Monaco has changed, how much land they’ve reclaimed into the sea, I don’t think you’d need to do too much. There just needs to be one area where you can have an …

Lando Norris Wins ‘Dream’ Maiden Monaco Grand Prix

Lando Norris Wins ‘Dream’ Maiden Monaco Grand Prix

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Lando Norris resisted intense pressure to claim a well-deserved victory for McLaren ahead of Ferrari’s local hero Charles Leclerc in Sunday’s strangely chaotic and tactical Monaco Grand Prix. The Briton came home 3.131 seconds clear of last year’s winner with championship leading McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri taking third. Four-time champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull came next ahead of seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton in the second Ferrari. Norris became the first McLaren winner in Monaco since Hamilton, in his first title-winning season of 2008. It was his first Monaco triumph, his second this year and the sixth of his career. French rookie Isack Hadjar finished sixth for the RB team ahead of Esteban Ocon of Haas, Liam Lawson in the second RB and the Williams pair Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz. “Monaco baby, yeah baby!” screamed Norris from his car during his slowdown lap after closing to within three points of Piastri in the title race.  “It feels amazing. It’s a long and gruelling race. I was nervous into the last corner and …

Lando Norris And Oscar Piastri Taking Championship Battle In Their Stride

Lando Norris And Oscar Piastri Taking Championship Battle In Their Stride

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Lando Norris says he isn’t stressing about McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri’s hot start to the season and the gap he has opened up at the top of the driver’s championship. Norris finished second in the championship last season and was viewed as McLaren’s top driver but Piastri has won three of the last four races and has a 10-point advantage over the British driver. “No worry at all. He’s doing a good job and he deserves it. Nothing more than that. I don’t believe so much in the momentum stuff,” said Norris, who won the season opener in Australia. “No reason to be worried. It’s round six of 24. I’m not going to say that forever, I know I need to get a move on and I need to get into gear a little bit. I’m doing the best I can every week and every minute,” he added. “Clearly I’ve made some mistakes and I’m not at the level I need to be, but I believe I can be at the level soon …

Saudi Arabia GP: Lando Norris on why it’s tough to win in Jeddah for McLaren | Motor-sport News

Saudi Arabia GP: Lando Norris on why it’s tough to win in Jeddah for McLaren | Motor-sport News

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McLaren driver Lando Norris’ tough start to the season was compounded after he shunted his car into the wall on Saturday in the qualifying session of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. After the session, the British driver said that overtaking at the circuit would be tough and that his error may ultimately cost the team valuable points in Jeddah. “I don’t think it’s going to be an easy one because I don’t think it’s very easy to overtake around here,” said Norris in the post-qualification press conference. At the start of the season, many believed that the McLaren would be the strongest car in the circuit. But the past few weeks have pointed to the gap between McLaren, Red Bull and Mercedes to be miniscule – a situation in which individual driver ability, car settings and track layouts have dictated race results. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took pole position for Jeddah with the Mercedes’ behind him completing the top three in qualification. Story continues below this ad “We have a strong car but clearly not …

Flawless Oscar Piastri Converts Pole To Win In Bahrain Grand Prix, Lando Norris Third

Flawless Oscar Piastri Converts Pole To Win In Bahrain Grand Prix, Lando Norris Third

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Oscar Piastri powered to victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday from George Russell’s Mercedes with the Australian’s McLaren teammate Lando Norris in third. Pole-sitter Piastri kept his calm in an incident-packed race to give McLaren their first ever win in Sakhir at their 21st attempt. Max Verstappen’s trying weekend at the desert track ended with the four-time world champion only managing sixth place. Norris leads the drivers’ standings on 77 points, with Piastri overtaking Verstappen and into second ahead of next weekend’s race in Jeddah. “That should be one hell of a party tonight. Mega weekend everyone. That was pretty damn fun,” Piastri said after marking his 50th start in perfect style. Taking the chequered flag under floodlights on a balmy Sunday evening in the Gulf kingdom was just reward after a weekend he had dominated, both in practice and in qualifying. Despite an incident-packed race behind him, Piastri, who also won in China last month, crossed the line 15.499sec clear of Russell, who was under investigation for an issue with …

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen Wins Japanese GP From Lando Norris

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen Wins Japanese GP From Lando Norris

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Four-time world champion Max Verstappen led from pole to chequered flag to win the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday, his first victory of the 2025 season, with McLaren’s Lando Norris second. The Dutch Red Bull driver crossed the finish line almost 1.5 seconds in front of Briton Norris, who held off his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri of Australia in third. The win on a damp but drying track at Suzuka was Verstappen’s fourth straight victory in Japan and closed the gap on Norris at the top of the drivers’ championship to one point. “It was tough. The McLarens were pushing me very hard,” said Verstappen. “It was a lot of fun but not easy pushing the tyres. I am incredibly happy. “Starting on pole made it possible to win.” Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finished fourth ahead of the Mercedes pair of George Russell and Kimi Antonelli. Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton was seventh, with RB’s Isack Hadjar next ahead of Williams’ Alex Albon and Haas’s Oliver Bearman. Yuki Tsunoda finished 12th in his first race for …