Three-time Formulation 1 world champion and motorsport legend Sir Jackie Stewart has supplied his verdict on Lando Norris after the Briton secured his first drivers’ title in 2025.
Talking on the Autosport Awards, the place the McLaren driver was celebrated by the organisation, Sir Stewart was requested about how he rated Norris as a champion.
“He’s a really steady younger man,” he stated. “To begin with, he had an excellent staff and he had an excellent know-how staff, notably engineering. So the automobile was good.”
He was fast to caveat his remark, nevertheless: “It doesn’t matter how good the automobile is that if the person doesn’t get the job finished appropriately. He did get it appropriately finished.”
McLaren supplied its drivers with a aggressive bundle throughout the 2025 season, and Norris rewarded them with a robust efficiency throughout the vast majority of races. With a newfound perception in himself, he transformed poles to wins, and fought off assaults from the likes of Max Verstappen and his personal team-mate, Oscar Piastri.
“He was very aggressive for the entire season,” Stewart added. “And their employees, and being there as aggressive as he’s, it’s a great world championship.”
Lando Norris, McLaren, Max Verstappen, Purple Bull Racing
Photograph by: Bryn Lennon / Formulation 1 by way of Getty Photos
F1 now sees a reset of the rules for the 2026 season, one which introduces a powertrain which balances inside combustion and electrical energy.
“The game’s higher in the present day than it is ever been within the historical past of the game,” Stewart stated on the adjustments coming this yr. “So, after all, Formulation 1 has at all times been main the world in motorsport know-how.
“So the brand new way of life, should you like, of this new yr shouldn’t be one thing fully new. However how sturdy it will be, we’ll have to attend and see.”
Norris completed the 2025 season simply two factors forward of Verstappen after the latter leveraged a surge in efficiency in direction of the latter half of the yr. However an excellently protected drive at Abu Dhabi noticed him clinch the win as he completed third beneath the fireworks of the Yas Marina Circuit.
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