The McLaren Formula 1 team has confirmed it will not be hosting events in Woking to celebrate Lando Norris’s first world championship win.<\/p>\n
McLaren, which is based in the Surrey town, secured the drivers’ and constructors’ double this year – its first since 1998.<\/p>\n
MP Will Forster says the team is “putting Woking on the map for all the right reasons and it means we as a town have got some civic pride”.<\/p>\n
Mr Forster said he remembered Mika Hakkinen driving around the town in a Formula 1 car when he won the 1998 championship, but McLaren have now confirmed that will not be the case this time around.<\/p>\n
In December, Woking Borough Council leader Ann\u2011Marie Barker wrote to McLaren’s CEO Zak Brown to congratulate the team..<\/p>\n
She said: “I do hope that we can celebrate this historic achievement locally. <\/p>\n
“February’s town\u2011centre celebration of your 2024 Constructors’ Championship was a tremendous success, with activities fully booked and exceptional community engagement.<\/p>\n
“We would be delighted to support your future plans so our community can once again share in the pride of your success.”<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the BBC asked McLaren about their plans for celebrating Norris’s win, but a spokesperson said: “I’m afraid we won’t be hosting any celebrations in Woking this time unfortunately as the team are super busy preparing for the season ahead.”<\/p>\n
It will come as a disappointment to those hoping to see Norris driving through the streets after becoming the first Brit to win the driver’s title since Sir Lewis Hamilton in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The McLaren Formula 1 team has confirmed it will not be hosting events in Woking to celebrate Lando…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-397695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397695","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=397695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}