{"id":356016,"date":"2025-12-18T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356016\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:16:08","slug":"former-rival-f1-boss-ready-to-irk-mclaren-with-lando-norris-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356016\/","title":{"rendered":"Former rival F1 boss ready to irk McLaren with Lando Norris offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swapping four wheels for two, former Haas F1 team boss Guenther Steiner has offered reigning World Champion Lando Norris a test on his team\u2019s KTM MotoGP bike \u2013 even though Zak Brown probably won\u2019t be happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>Norris won the F1 2025 Drivers\u2019 title, overturning his 34-point deficit after the Dutch Grand Prix to win by two points with a third-placed finish at the season finale in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not \u2018papaya\u2019, but it is \u2018orange\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But while Norris has now achieved the ultimate goal for a Formula 1 racer; the big question is what\u2019s next for the Briton?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/driver\/lando-norris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norris<\/a> will remain in the sport next season and beyond after agreeing an \u201cextended multi-year\u201d contract with McLaren in early 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pleased to confirm the extension of our partnership with Lando on a multi-year contract beyond 2025,\u201d said team principal Andrea Stella at the time. \u201cThis reflects the commitment and confidence we have together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But could Norris yet be charmed to try his hand at a different series? Potentially MotoGP?<\/p>\n<p>More on F1 2026 on PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/f1-2026-terminology-revealed-fia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MOM is out and Boost Mode in as key F1 2026 terms defined<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/f1-2026-car-gallery-new-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gallery: FOM and FIA unveil all-new renders of F1 2026 machinery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Red Bull KTM Tech3 MotoGP team boss Steiner has put that offer on the table, or at the least a one-off test if the reigning F1 champion wants it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is welcome to ride our bike next year,\u201d Steiner said on The Red Flags podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has the same colour [as the McLaren], papaya\u2026 Okay, it\u2019s orange, but they are very similar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can come and ride it; we will find a way to arrange it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be something nice for him, although I don\u2019t know if Zak Brown would be happy to see him ride a MotoGP bike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norris has in the past spoken about his love for two-wheel racing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to do motorbike stuff. That\u2019s actually where I started,\u201d Norris said back in August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I did horse riding. I hated that. Quad biking, my dad sold it, he said it got stolen, he just sold it because it was too dangerous for me. Then I went to motocross.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I love dirt motorsport \u2013 motorbikes, motocross, quad bikes, I loved all of that before I ever watched Formula 1, before I ever saw road racing, or anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, buggies and desert stuff, I was like \u2018this is the coolest stuff in the world.\u2019 So that\u2019s actually what I wanted to do before everything. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMotorbikes was where a lot of my love started, my hero was Valentino Rossi.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read next:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/max-verstappen-permanent-f1-number-change\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen confirms worst-kept secret with permanent F1 number change<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swapping four wheels for two, former Haas F1 team boss Guenther Steiner has offered reigning World Champion Lando&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,818,1737,913,44,17165,85],"class_list":["post-356016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-home-page","tag-lando-norris","tag-mclaren","tag-news","tag-popular","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356016","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=356016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}