2025 Method 1 champion Lando Norris has been provided a take a look at on a MotoGP bike subsequent yr by former Haas F1 chief Guenther Steiner.
Steiner led a consortium in September 2025 which acquired full possession of the Purple Bull KTM Tech3 MotoGP workforce. With the brand new construction taking impact from 2026, Steiner will assume the function of CEO and his venture companion, Richard Coleman, will take the function of workforce principal.
Norris has typically spoken about bike racing, revealing it was his old flame earlier than turning his consideration to 4 wheels.
“You realize what, I’d like to do bike stuff. That is truly the place I began,” Norris mentioned on the Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in August. “So I did horse using – I hated that. Quad biking – my dad bought it, he mentioned it acquired stolen, he simply bought it as a result of it was too harmful for me. Then I went to motocross.
“So I like dust motorsport – motorbikes, motocross, quad bikes, I beloved all of that earlier than I ever watched Method 1, earlier than I ever noticed street racing, or something.
“For me, buggies and desert stuff, I used to be like ‘that is the good stuff on the earth.’ In order that’s truly what I needed to do at the beginning. Motorbikes was the place loads of my love began, my hero was Valentino Rossi.”
Lando Norris, McLaren
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After claiming his first F1 championship on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Steiner prolonged a proposal to the McLaren driver throughout an look on The Purple Flags Podcast.
“He’s welcome to journey our bike subsequent yr. It has the identical color [as the McLaren], papaya… OK, it’s orange, however they’re very comparable,” he mentioned.
“He can come and journey it; we’ll discover a approach to prepare it. It could be one thing good for him, though I don’t know if Zak Brown could be blissful to see him journey a MotoGP bike.”
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