UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer sends message to Lando Norris after WDC victory

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has congratulated Lando Norris on his Method 1 drivers’ championship victory.

The British driver secured the title after ending the season finale in Abu Dhabi in third behind Purple Bull’s Max Verstappen and his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri in second. Norris’s win has drawn a variety of reward from throughout the F1 paddock but in addition additional afield.

After Norris turned the eleventh world champion from Nice Britain, Starmer posted on social media: “Congratulations, Lando Norris, Britain’s new F1 champion! An unbelievable season and so nicely deserved.”

Starmer additionally commented on the championship win throughout a public occasion in Surrey on Monday 8 December.

“It’s superb to be right here the day after Lando gained yesterday,” he informed the gang. “And I hope you’ve all received a smile in your faces as a result of that interview with him afterwards – which I hope you’ve all seen – very emotional interview with him after he had gained…

“However I assumed the way in which by which he wished to thank the entire of his group was actually essential as a result of he was emphasising that he’s the individual clearly doing the racing however that may’t occur with out the entire McLaren group at each stage working with him and for him.

“And I hope you felt a little bit of delight for him, what he’s achieved, as a result of all the pieces that you simply all do, all of the teamwork you set in is all a part of what produces that unimaginable outcome – and it was an unimaginable outcome. So it’s incredible to be right here right this moment.”

Lando Norris, McLaren

Photograph by: Erik Junius

British F1 champions

Norris joins a formidable record of British F1 champions.

Mike Hawthorn: 1958Graham Hill: 1962, 1968Jim Clark: 1963, 1965John Surtees: 1964Sir Jackie Stewart: 1969, 1971, 1973James Hunt: 1976Nigel Mansell: 1992Damon Hill: 1996Sir Lewis Hamilton: 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020Jenson Button: 2009Lando Norris: 2025

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