Lando Norris said he celebrated winning his first Formula One world championship until six in the morning and ended his historic night with a McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Norris marked becoming just the 11th driver from Britain to win an F1 title at a glitzy afterparty at the W Hotel which sits on top of the Yas Marina Circuit, where only hours earlier he realised his childhood dream.<\/p>\n
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Videos emerged of the 26-year-old toasting his success by singing Queen\u2019s \u2018We are the Champions\u2019 and Neil Diamond\u2019s \u2018Sweet Caroline\u2019, surrounded by his friends and family.<\/p>\n
Asked what time he left the party, Norris replied: \u201c6am, and then a little McDonald\u2019s. I really wanted some Chicken McNuggets but it was the morning by then so they didn\u2019t have any left.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a Sausage McMuffin. Was it the breakfast of champions? Certainly not. I regretted it straightaway.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Norris held his nerve at the season-finale by finishing third in Abu Dhabi to end Max Verstappen\u2019s run of four consecutive world championships. Verstappen finished just two points behind Norris after a marathon 24-round campaign.<\/p>\n
Norris then revealed the final moments of Sunday\u2019s 58-lap race were like a montage of his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like a movie,\u201d he said. \u201cAs much as I was just trying to avoid every bump possible, I was also remembering all of those moments, from the very beginning, driving a go-kart for the first time ever, my first time on the track in a go-kart, the races I had, the karting world championship I won in 2014, and many different memories.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was watching me, I was living it, but I was also watching me drive around from a bird\u2019s-eye view \u2013 and this was all within the space of a couple of minutes \u2013 through to the last seven years of McLaren and the good and bad moments of this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had no idea what to expect. And with three laps to go, I was like, \u2018I am getting pretty close, and I am not feeling anything yet\u2019. I was like, \u2018Is this going to mean a lot to me?\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen the next lap, I started having these cool flashbacks. It was like a montage of my life, and going under the bridge for the final time, and imagining my mum in the garage, and that made me a bit emotional.<\/p>\n
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\u201cBut the best memory was when I came round the final corner, and this is now from my view, my eyes inside my visor, coming round, and seeing the chequered flag, and that moment of lifting off and being able to cry. I want to saviour that moment because that was the \u2018it\u2019 moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t get emotional like that over anything and before the weekend I was like, \u2018Do I need to look up a video as to how celebrate a world championship?\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was going to look back at how Sebastian (Vettel) did it because he was a good one for celebrating, and Lewis (Hamilton), too. I didn\u2019t in the end. And what played out was what I felt and that was all in the moment and that made it extra special.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Norris, who will return to his McLaren for a Pirelli tyre test in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, insisted his first title will not change him as a person.<\/p>\n
He concluded: \u201cFrom the exterior it will change my life, but it won\u2019t change me, and how I live it. I really hope it doesn\u2019t anyway. I don\u2019t want to be that kind of person.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is cool that people will now say I am a world champion, and my name is on an incredible list of other drivers, but it won\u2019t change who I am and that is the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris said he celebrated winning his first Formula One world championship until six in the morning and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,146526,577,591,1885,9948,82,146525,143131],"class_list":["post-332778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one-world-championship","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mcdonalds","tag-sports","tag-sweet-caroline","tag-yas-marina-circuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}