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Lando Norris being realistic about winning a championship with McLaren

Lando Norris has admitted that he believes it’s “unlikely” that he’ll be able to “win a championship” until the latter end of his current contract with McLaren, which expires at the end of 2025. After fighting amongst the frontrunners for the bulk of 2021, the Woking-based outfit well and truly returned to the midfield in 2022, with the team

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Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri take to the track together for the first time

McLaren’s relationship with Daniel Ricciardo was extremely positive, with both sides exhausting every option in an attempt to make their time together as successful as possible. Unfortunately, the Australian was unable to find his true form with the team and was comprehensively beating in the championship by McLaren’s young star Lando Norris. The team were

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Lando Norris makes revelation about Red Bull contract talks

The current project at McLaren is an exciting one, as the team have an exciting young driver pairing of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri and are potentially only months away from have a brand-new wind tunnel facility operational. CEO of McLaren Racing Zak Brown has recently admitted that it could take until 2025 for the

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Lando Norris admits: ‘I didn’t need to do that’

Lando Norris has opened up on his battles with mental health, with the McLaren star having started to discuss the personal challenges he’s faced to the media. Being a Formula 1 driver is quite clearly no easy feat, with the job being so much more than just racing around a Grand Prix circuit at absurd

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Oscar Piastri not worried about falling into Daniel Ricciardo trap

Daniel Ricciardo was unfortunately a victim of the MCL36’s unique driving style requirements, with the car requiring a specific style of driver to extract the maximum performance. The car had a much stronger rear end than front, meaning that the McLaren drivers often had to take a softer approach to corners that the other teams.

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Lando Norris to honour McLaren contract despite Red Bull links

2022 was another successful year for young McLaren star Lando Norris, with the 23-year-old finishing as the best of the rest driver and being the only man outside of the top three teams to score a podium. One thing that does elude the Brit however is his first race win, with Norris being forced to

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McLaren Racing CEO reveals Lando Norris disciplinary issue

Lando Norris was the standout driver outside of the top three teams in 2022, being the only driver that was not in a Red Bull, Ferrari or Mercedes to score a podium. The Brit continues to improve year after year and has been tipped to become a future world champion, should he be given a

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‘That hits you pretty hard’: Lando Norris opens up on mental health struggles

McLaren star Lando Norris has further opened up on his personal battles with mental health, with the British driver having first discussed his mental challenges in 2021. The British driver is approaching his fifth season already in Formula 1, with the 23-year-old certainly a driver expected to achieve incredible things. He has managed some exceptional

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Daniel Ricciardo told to get ready for retirement

Daniel Ricciardo took a massive gamble ahead of the 2019 season, as the Australian opted to ditch the comfortability of Red Bull in favour of a fresh challenge at Renault. The 33-year-old had become frustrated with Red Bull’s decision to favour a young Max Verstappen over him, seeing his championship hopes dwindle. A two-year stay

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Haas question FIA restriction ahead of ban

Wind tunnels are key to creating a competitive Formula 1 car, with every hour allocated to the teams being used to the final second in order to get the maximum amount of data possible. In recent years however, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become more and more advanced and has therefore taken over some of

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