BEYOND THE GRID: Norris on raising his game and fighting for the 2025 title

Now a multiple race winner, podium finisher and polesitter, Lando Norris is ready to take the next step in his Formula 1 career and become World Champion.

To do so in 2025, he will have to beat his talented team mate Oscar Piastri. But despite a sometimes challenging first half of the season, Norris feels he is a better driver this year and just needs to find some consistency.

Speaking to Beyond The Grid’s Tom Clarkson, the 25-year-old talks about how he has evolved as a driver on and off track since winning his first Grand Prix in Miami in 2024 and what McLaren are doing differently in their approach since becoming Teams’ World Champions.

Norris also shares how he moved on from his dramatic collision with Piastri in Canada and why he is working hard to switch off from F1 away from the track.

Meanwhile, Norris tells us how F1 The Movie star Brad Pitt performed in the 2023 McLaren car at Austin recently, and what it would mean to win his home race at this weekend’s British Grand Prix.

Plus, Norris’ race engineer Will Joseph joins the podcast to discuss how their relationship has changed since they started working together in 2019.

This episode is brought to you by Dropbox Dash, an official technology partner of the McLaren Formula 1 team.

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