secured the championship<\/a> with a podium finish.<\/p>\n\u201cSeeing the figure finished and standing next to it is pretty surreal \u2013 it really is like looking at another version of me,\u201d Norris said. \u201cI\u2019m used to seeing myself in photos, videos or a reflection, but this is me in 3D.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe artists have really nailed the details; it\u2019s so lifelike. I also wanted to donate one of my race suits so fans can see up close something I actually wear when I\u2019m racing and help make the figure feel as realistic as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t wait for everyone to come and see it in London this summer, and I hope everyone has fun visiting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Steve Blackburn, General Manager at Madame Tussauds London, added: \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to finally reveal Lando Norris\u2019s figure to the public, and we\u2019re sure fans are going to love it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly grateful to Lando for donating key race suit items \u2013 it really brings the figure to life. We can\u2019t wait to welcome fans to strike a winning pose alongside Lando throughout the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Norris\u2019 figure will join a star-studded group of sporting icons in Madame Tussauds London\u2019s Culture Capital zone, including Harry Kane, Cristiano Ronaldo, Mo Salah, Mary Earps MBE, Anthony Joshua and Kylian Mbappe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madame Tussauds has revealed the first-ever figure of reigning World Champion Lando Norris at the London attraction, just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-757030","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757030","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=757030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}