Lando Norris has mentioned his purpose is to safe a back-to-back Formulation 1 world drivers’ championships in 2026, after successful his first in 2025.
The McLaren driver accepted the Autosport Champion award on the 2026 Autosport Awards and confirmed to the cheering crowd that his eyes are on the title as soon as once more within the upcoming season.
“It is completely the purpose. Sure, it is completely, completely the purpose,” the Briton mentioned, after avoiding the query from host Greg James. “Actually, successful one provides you much more confidence. It is totally different for everybody, proper? You have to discover your individual manner of doing issues, and you’ve got folks with extra confidence, folks with much less.
“I’ve by no means been the one to have essentially the most confidence in myself. I definitely have extra of it now, that is for positive. I’ve at all times been a seeing-is-believing type of man, however that is even for myself. So I’ve at all times needed to see myself on the highest step, see myself successful to lastly consider that I can do it. However definitely final yr, I managed to grasp that earlier than I achieved it.
“Already midway by way of the season, I felt like I had every thing I wanted. The folks round me, the workforce, the automotive, and my very own skill to exit and win the championship. In order that first time I actually had the idea in myself was final yr, and it turned out to be the proper factor to have. So, that was the gorgeous factor, too.”
2026 brings in a brand new wave of rules to the championship, permitting the grid to degree itself as every workforce as soon as once more begins from zero. Nobody is aware of which groups will rise to the highest, however Norris is hopeful.
There have been predictions that Mercedes-powered automobiles – the facility unit McLaren makes use of – are more likely to carry out effectively given the Brackley outfit’s dominance in the course of the earlier hybrid period. However we can’t know till the automobiles hit the monitor on the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
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