Reigning Formulation 1 world champion Lando Norris fancies himself a drive on the 24 Hours of Le Mans sooner or later. With McLaren’s increasing endurance racing programme, there’s an more and more accessible route for such an ambition to be realised.
Talking in a video printed to McLaren’s YouTube channel, the 2025 drivers’ champion mentioned his aspirations past the tight cockpit of a papaya-coloured F1 automotive.
“, I nonetheless really feel like I wish to go and take a look at different issues,” he stated. “Do Le Mans, now McLaren are doing Le Mans, so possibly go and do this in some unspecified time in the future.
“However I do not know. I am nonetheless younger, so I’ve not considered all the things simply but. However, , sooner or later hopefully I’ve youngsters they usually get into racing or one thing after which I can dwell the story once more.”
The Woking-based producer has made strong progress in endurance racing, just lately unveiling the MCL-HY Hypercar – the machine that can compete within the FIA World Endurance Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 2027.
It has already been pushed in anger by Mikkel Jensen, who turned the primary driver to check a top-category McLaren sportscar for the reason that Le Mans-winning F1 GTR.
McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown had already teased the thought of each Norris and his team-mate Oscar Piastri being concerned within the programme.
McLaren MCL-HY
Picture by: McLaren
“I like the old fashioned racing,” he informed WEC TV in early 2025. “The Mario Andrettis, Dan Gurneys… they ran in several formulation… Now, with how large the game is corporately, you get into producer conflicts, sponsor conflicts, calendar conflicts, and that is why I beloved racing with Fernando a lot. Whether or not it is Le Mans, Indy or Dakar, he simply needs to race.
“I believe we’re very open-minded,” he added. “Who would not wish to win Le Mans? I’ve talked to Lando and Oscar about it, they usually’ve stated they’d like to go race Le Mans. That is cool, proper? I believe all these motorsports converging are nice.
“We love sportscar racing [at McLaren]. We’re the one crew to have gained the Triple Crown, it would be cool to go for it once more. We’re impressed with the principles, the competitors.”
Norris had confirmed his curiosity through the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, too, the place he informed reporters he’d “love” to tackle Le Mans. As Brown said, orchestrating a Le Mans marketing campaign would require cautious scheduling round such a prolonged F1 calendar.
Having secured the championship win final yr, the 26-year-old appears to be casting his gaze in the direction of La Sarthe.
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