{"id":378247,"date":"2025-12-30T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378247\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:52:11","slug":"norris-snubbed-by-king-charles-as-f1-champions-tradition-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378247\/","title":{"rendered":"Norris snubbed by King Charles as F1 champions&#8217; tradition broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is customary for British <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> champions to appear on the Royal New Years Honours list. However, Britain&#8217;s most recent Formula One champion, McLaren driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/lando-norris\" title=\"Lando Norris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lando Norris<\/a>&#8216; name was absent.<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/norris-abu-dhabi-f1-694044f3dfc97.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"maclaren-norris-abu-dhabi-f1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris won the F1 2025 championship in Abu Dhabi. Photo: RacePictures<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/lewis-hamilton\" title=\"Lewis Hamilton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> in the 2020 Formula One season, Norris became Britan&#8217;s most recent world champion. Having contested a year-long battle for the title against McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri and Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen, Norris clinched the accolade by a two-points margin over the Dutch former champion.It was customary that after a British driver won their first Formula One championship they would be awarded an MBE or an OBE, as marked more recently by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/damon-hill\" title=\"Damon Hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Damon Hill<\/a> in 1996, Hamilton in 2008 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/jenson-button\" title=\"Jenson Button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenson Button<\/a> in 2009, with Hamilton being knighted in 2020 after services in diversity and motorsport.<\/p>\n<p>For Norris it marks yet another sporting impact award missed, after golfer Rory McIlroy swoop in to take the BBC broadcasted Sporting Personality of the Year prize.<\/p>\n<p>Why Norris was left out of the 2025 New Years Honours list is not yet known. Title rival Verstappen, though, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/hamilton-snubbed-as-f1-team-bosses-disclose-2025-top-ten-drivers\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was selected as the best driver of the Formula One 2025 season.<\/a>Verstappen picked as the best also by peersMax Verstappen was voted best driver of the season by fellow F1 drivers for the fifth year in a row. He led the year in wins, poles, and laps led, despite often having a less competitive car than McLaren\u2019s MCL39, and finished ahead of new world champion Lando Norris in the poll. George Russell ranked third. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/verstappen-crowned-by-fellow-drivers-as-hamilton-once-again-left-out\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to stay up-to-date with what happens in the F1 paddock? Then GPblog&#8217;s F1 Paddock Update video is the perfect way to do it. Subscribe to GPblog&#8217;s YouTube channel and turn on notifications to never miss the latest episodes.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is customary for British F1 champions to appear on the Royal New Years Honours list. However, Britain&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,39259,578,28673,576,577,3765,591,932,82],"class_list":["post-378247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-damon-hill","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-jenson-button","tag-lando-norris","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378247","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=378247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}