Lando Norris has now etched his name into the F1 history books after claiming his maiden World Championship at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the Briton taking the crown following a closely-fought title battle that went right down to the wire. An eventful season for Norris has also brought with it some fascinating statistics \u2013 and we\u2019ve rounded up some of the key numbers below\u2026<\/p>\n
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The smallest winning margin in seconds of all of Norris<\/a>\u2019 victories, with this one occurring during his fifth triumph of the campaign in Hungary.<\/p>\n A one-stop strategy had helped Norris to get into the lead of Round 14 on the calendar, having lined up behind Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc and the other McLaren<\/a> of Oscar Piastri<\/a>. However, a charging Piastri started to hunt Norris down during the latter stages, setting up a thrilling end to the race<\/a>.<\/p>\n While he made a couple of attempts to overtake, Piastri ultimately could not find a way past his team mate \u2013 but crossed the line a mere 0.698s behind.<\/p>\n — 2 —<\/p>\n The number of points by which Norris took the Drivers\u2019 Championship ahead of closest rival Max Verstappen<\/a>.<\/p>\n After retaking the lead of the standings following the Mexico City Grand Prix, Norris further strengthened his advantage to 24 points over Piastri at the next round in Sao Paulo. Verstappen, meanwhile, was 49 points adrift at this stage.<\/p>\n However, a run of victories for the Dutchman \u2013 coupled with some trickier weekends for McLaren \u2013 saw him overtake Piastri for second following the penultimate round in Qatar, putting him only 12 points away from Norris for the finale. Another triumph for Verstappen in Abu Dhabi gave him a further 25 points \u2013 but Norris just clung on to win the title, ending the season only two points clear of the Red Bull<\/a> man.<\/p>\n — 6 —<\/p>\n Fastest laps achieved by Norris across the season.<\/p>\n A rule introduced in 2019 saw the driver that scored the fastest lap of the race awarded an additional point. While this was scrapped ahead of the 2025 campaign, setting the quickest time is still something of an accolade.<\/p>\n Norris racked up six fastest laps during his title-winning season, with his first coming during his victory at the first race of the championship in Australia while his last occurred at the Italian Grand Prix in September.<\/p>\n — 7 —<\/p>\n Norris\u2019 total number of wins \u2013 and pole positions \u2013 from the 24-race campaign.<\/p>\n Seven appears to be the magic number for both Norris and team mate Piastri in 2025; incredibly, each driver claimed seven race victories each, as well as both racking up the same number of poles.<\/p>\n While the majority of Piastri\u2019s triumphs took place during the first half of the year, Norris\u2019 were slightly more evenly spread, having stood on the top step of the podium in Australia (Round 1), Monaco (Round 8), Austria (Round 11), Great Britain (Round 12), Hungary (Round 14), Mexico (Round 20) and Sao Paulo (Round 21).<\/p>\n — 8 —<\/p>\n The number of race weekends where Norris arrived as the championship leader.<\/p>\n As touched on above, Norris kicked off the season in style by winning the Australian Grand Prix, meaning that he took an early lead in the Drivers\u2019 Championship standings. From there the Briton continued to head the table \u2013 until Piastri overtook him after Round 5 in Jeddah.<\/p>\n Despite the Australian remaining ahead of the pack for much of the campaign, a strong run for Norris saw the 26-year-old retake the P1 spot thanks to a dominant victory at Round 20 in Mexico \u2013 and the rest is history…<\/p>\n — 13 —<\/p>\n How many times Norris beat Piastri in the intra-team heads-to-heads.<\/p>\n In terms of Qualifying trim for the season, Norris narrowly outscores his team mate by 13-11. As mentioned above, both drivers took seven pole positions \u2013 but Norris more frequently placed ahead across the campaign as a whole.<\/p>\n The race day head-to-head between the two looks very similar, with Norris again just edging it by 13-10 (not including the Las Vegas Grand Prix, in which both McLaren cars were disqualified for a technical infringement).<\/p>\n — 17 —<\/p>\n Number of years since McLaren last had a Drivers\u2019 Champion prior to Norris\u2019 success.<\/p>\n When the papaya squad won the Teams\u2019 Championship in 2024, it marked the end of a long wait to return to title glory<\/a>, with their last triumph having occurred back in 1998. Their most recent Drivers\u2019 title, meanwhile, had been won by Lewis Hamilton<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n This year McLaren did the double, wrapping up the Teams\u2019 crown early in Singapore before Norris brought home a long-awaited Drivers\u2019 Championship at the finale, ending the 17-year dry spell since Hamilton\u2019s success.<\/p>\n — 18 —<\/p>\n The number of times that Norris stood on the podium in 2025.<\/p>\n Along with his aforementioned seven wins, the new World Champion also crossed the line in second on eight occasions, as well as taking third place three times \u2013 one of which being his crucial title-sealing result in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n With there being a total of 24 races on the calendar this year, this statistic means that only six of these ended with Norris finishing off the rostrum; two being a DNF (in Canada and the Netherlands), one a DSQ (in Las Vegas), while his other non-podium finishes were a P4 in Saudi Arabia, seventh place in Azerbaijan and another fourth at the penultimate event in Qatar.<\/p>\n — 30.324 —<\/p>\n