Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Lando Norris
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I've had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.
I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn't the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.
There are going to be things I'm not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.
It's what counts, isn't it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it's nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It's a much bigger problem.
I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I'm worth it, then everything should be fine.
I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.
To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.
I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.
I've missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.
I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn't quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.
I don't like drinking, basically.
No driver is perfect.
Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.
In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I'd be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.
I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It's what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.
I haven't gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don't know.
I'm definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.
F2's much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.
I liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.
I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.
I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.
The first time I used a simulator was in 2014 when I was competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship.
I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking 'that is what I want to do.'
Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.
I'm a fighter, I'm a winner, and I'm not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.
I am absolutely my own biggest critic.
When I was five - it's not even bad - I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.
I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn't think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun.
I tend not to really think about what other people say. I'd rather just try and focus on what I'm doing, try and win basically.
I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.
In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get.
I'm sure like everyone else I'm not always the happiest if I don't do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.
The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It's hard to see how it pulls in fans.
My favourite car I drove in the 'shoot out' at Silverstone was the 2016 Mercedes DTM car. I loved every moment in it, the downforce being particularly surprising.
I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.
I started off riding motorbikes and at that point my hero was Valentino Rossi.
It's just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.
Sometimes I'm a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it's good to have both.
There's so many bits on a car these days it's hard to know where everything is. You have a bit of an idea but if you are behind someone and you suddenly change direction it's hard to know exactly where the car is.
Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it's quite difficult to put the lap together.
I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.
Joining McLaren didn't add a lot of pressure but of course you want to make sure you can impress them.
I had to drive with a roof in LMP2, and I managed to get used to that quite quickly - although it's still not a Halo, it's still different to what I'm used to.
I'm an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.
The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.
I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.
There's definitely going to be things that I'm not very good at, things I can improve.
Well, it's looks like I've a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.
Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.
I don't think there's any point going for second or third.
How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.
I raced with my brother from when I started to 2014 when I finished karting.
I focus on my own job.
It's not like I'm nervous of people seeing what I can or can't do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.
Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.
I think Weetabix and full-fat milk is what it is all about.
Overall there's going to be things I'm not great at.
I need to do well and show I'm a worthy driver in F1.
I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don't do a good job in qualifying or the race.
I don't know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.
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