{"id":344174,"date":"2025-12-12T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344174\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:33:07","slug":"lando-norris-collects-f1-championship-trophy-at-fia-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344174\/","title":{"rendered":"Lando Norris collects F1 championship trophy at FIA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lando Norris has collected his first Formula 1 world championship trophy at an FIA gala event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>Norris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/47151000\/lando-norris-wins-first-f1-world-title-championship-2025-abu-dhabi-mclaren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clinched the title<\/a> in a tense Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last Sunday, beating Max Verstappen by two points and McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri by 13 in what went down to the wire as a three-way fight.<\/p>\n<p>Englishman Norris, 26, became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/47118455\/lando-norris-wins-2025-f1-world-championship-career-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sport&#8217;s 35th champion<\/a> and the fourth on the current grid, along with Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Lando Norris receives his world championship trophy at the FIA Awards in Tashkent.\u00a0Handout\/FIA\/DPPI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>F1&#8217;s rules state that champions do not collect their trophy until their end-of-season prizegiving gala, where all the champions from FIA-governed series&#8217; attend.<\/p>\n<p>The F1 championship award is considered the centerpiece of the gala.<\/p>\n<p>Four-time champion Verstappen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/47285102\/max-verstappen-miss-lando-norris-f1-trophy-lift-illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">did not attend the awards<\/a> due to illness, Red Bull confirmed earlier on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris has collected his first Formula 1 world championship trophy at an FIA gala event in Tashkent,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-344174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}