{"id":824076,"date":"2026-07-26T02:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824076\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T02:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:28:10","slug":"formula-1-needs-better-balance-between-business-and-sport-says-world-champion-lando-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824076\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 needs better balance between business and sport, says world champion Lando Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Formula 1 has been driven too much by business decisions and needs to remember it is a sport, according to McLaren\u2019s world champion Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With drivers chafing at new regulations that have cramped their speed, particularly at last weekend\u2019s Belgian Grand Prix, the Briton told reporters ahead of Sunday\u2019s Hungarian round that Formula 1 \u200ccould do better.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s a business,\u201d said the Briton, \u2060who was fastest in final \u2060practice around the Hungaroring circuit on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cEveryone wants to make money, so in order for Audi and other teams to come in we had to change these things. It\u2019s a shame. It should never have been like that. But that\u2019s how businesses work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Audi have entered the sport this season after taking over Swiss-based Sauber, with the German carmaker encouraged by new rules that have increased the electrical element of the power unit to near-parity with the internal combustion engine. The rules have been tweaked for 2027 to reduce \u2060the electrical contribution.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Audi\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg during practice on Saturday for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3115fe7c-eac3-45f4-acf2-cade911faa4d_833630cf.jpg\" title=\"Audi\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg during practice on Saturday for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Audi\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg during practice on Saturday for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cFormula 1 will always be great,\u201d said Norris, whose car has a Mercedes engine. \u201cIt can just be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1 has been driven too much by business decisions and needs to remember it is a sport,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,40856,63,7696,1200,817,31960,813,816,31948,1737,52817,913,945,435,924,85,74638],"class_list":["post-824076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-audi","tag-australia","tag-belgian-grand-prix","tag-drive-to-survive","tag-f1","tag-formula","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-hungaroring","tag-lando-norris","tag-liberty-media","tag-mclaren","tag-mercedes","tag-netflix","tag-sauber","tag-sports","tag-swiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824076","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=824076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}