Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz reunite as they go head-to-head in historic karting problem

Method 1 drivers Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz have reunited to check karts from over the previous 100 years in a video for the 2025 champion’s Quadrant YouTube channel.

The previous team-mates started their monitor take a look at with a basic 1959 Twin Vill. They got an out-lap after which one flying lap to clock their time in every kart. Norris was up first within the 1959 equipment. “He is really pushing,” a shocked Sainz stated as he watched the McLaren driver.

“That was a exercise to not fall out,” Norris stated after finishing the flying lap in 1 minute on the dot. “I discovered ultimately, you must lean in. It’s important to, or else you may fall out the kart.”

Sainz took the win within the first head-to-head with a time of 59.62 seconds within the 1959 Twin Vill, earlier than they moved on to the 1968 HKS. After the primary kart, they alternated between the totally different a long time of karts. The Spaniard took to the seat of the 1968 HKS and managed to shave virtually six seconds off his time within the 1959 equipment.

“The engine is sort of a correct engine,” Sainz stated with an enormous grin on his face. “However it has no brakes. Like zero. Like I used to be virtually out of the seat.”

 

As they progressed into the Nineteen Seventies period of equipment, there was a transparent step ahead in efficiency and driver consolation. Getting within the 1979 DAP chassis, which is a reproduction of the equipment as soon as raced by three-time F1 champion Ayrton Senna, Norris clocked a lap time of 51.68s.

They continued via the totally different eras of karting, getting behind the wheel of a 1989 Birel Parilla TT36, a 1996 CRG Kalifornia, a uncommon 2000 CRG Millennium and a 2010 Fernando Alonso-IAME X30.

Lastly, the drivers went head-to-head of their 2026 karts with the LN Racing Kart and CS55 kart. Sainz went first and clocked a powerful time of 41.40s, however it was Norris who took the ultimate victory with a time of 40.91s.

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