Top 60 Lando Norris Quotes

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

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

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

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

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.

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

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.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

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.

On the sim at home, you can change downforce levels, roll bars, springs, ride heights – you can try all these different things.

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’m definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.

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 am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I think Weetabix and full-fat milk is what it is all about.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

No driver is perfect.

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’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

F2’s much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

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.

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.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

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

I think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

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

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‘Pro-Sim,’ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

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.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

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.

I don’t drink at all.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

You can only get to a certain point when you feel confident with the simulator and it always changes when you get to the track and you actually drive it for real for the first time.

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.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I’ve had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you’ve got to start saving. It’s not easy.

My dad kind of liked racing and motorsports, but wasn’t a big fan, it wasn’t like he watched every race or whatever.

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

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

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.

When I was five – it’s not even bad – I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I started off with sim driving, playing ‘Gran Turismo,’ and my Dad had some sort of Logitech steering wheel with pedals for the PlayStation 2.

To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

The ‘Pro-Sim’ is pretty much the best simulator you can buy, because of the steering motor and the pedals. The force feedback we get through the steering is pretty much exactly the same as what we get in the actual car in terms of how heavy it is.

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