Lando Norris has confirmed that his aim is to safe a back-to-back System 1 drivers’ championship title in 2026, after profitable 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, profitable one provides you much more confidence. It is totally different for everybody, proper? You have to discover your personal method 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 at all times been a seeing-is-believing form of man, however that is even for myself. So I’ve at all times needed to see myself on the highest step, see myself profitable 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 the season, I felt like I had every part I wanted. The folks round me, the workforce, the automobile, and my very own capacity to exit and win the championship. In order that first time I actually had the idea in myself was final yr, and it turned out to be the right 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 degree itself as every workforce 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 vehicles – the ability 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 can’t know till the vehicles hit the monitor on the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
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