Lando Norris has confirmed that his aim is to safe a back-to-back Components 1 drivers’ championship title 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 aim. Sure, it is completely, completely the aim,” the Briton mentioned after avoiding the query from host Greg James. “Definitely, successful one provides you much more confidence. It is completely different for everybody, proper? You have to discover your individual means 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 probably the most confidence in myself. I definitely have extra of it now, that is for certain. I’ve all the time been a seeing-is-believing type of man, however that is even for myself. So I’ve all the time needed to see myself on the highest step, see myself successful to lastly imagine that I can do it. However definitely final yr, I managed to understand that earlier than I achieved it.
“Already midway by way of the season, I felt like I had all the things I wanted. The folks round me, the staff, the automobile, and my very own skill to exit and win the championship. In order that first time I actually had the assumption 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 stage itself as every staff 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 throughout the earlier hybrid period from 2014 to 2021. However we cannot know till the automobiles hit the monitor on the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
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