Lando Norris Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

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

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

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 focus on my own job.

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

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

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.

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.

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.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

I started off riding motorbikes and at that point my hero was Valentino Rossi.

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.

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

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

The first time I used a simulator was in 2014 when I was competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship.

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 don’t like drinking, basically.

No driver is perfect.

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.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

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.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

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.

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

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking ‘that is what I want to do.’

I don’t like going to the gym. My biggest focus is the neck and endurance. I wear this ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ harness, with a resistance trainer pulling against it.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

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

I don’t drink at all.

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

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.