{"id":667676,"date":"2026-05-13T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/667676\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:12:13","slug":"lando-norris-backs-lewis-hamiltons-crucial-fia-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/667676\/","title":{"rendered":"Lando Norris backs Lewis Hamilton’s crucial FIA demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

McLaren<\/a>‘s Lando Norris<\/a> has backed Lewis Hamilton<\/a>‘s calls for F1<\/a> drivers to have a “seat at the table” with regard to changes to the sport’s regulations, arguing that drivers up and down the grid “all want the same thing.” <\/p>\n

F1’s 2026 regulations have come under heavy scrutiny ever since their introduction, with several drivers voicing their discontent over the 50:50 power unit split between internal combustion and electrical power. The need to constantly charge the 2026 cars’ battery has led to concerns over the quality of both Qualifying and racing, as well as safety after a 50G crash for Haas’ Ollie Bearman at Suzuka.<\/p>\n

Tweaks were introduced to address those concerns at the Miami GP, and while F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali hailed the event as “truly wonderful,” several drivers are yet to be convinced, including 2026’s most vocal critic Max Verstappen. Changes were later announced for 2027, with the 50:50 split set to be altered slightly to 60:40 in favour of the ICE.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Miami GP to GPblog and other media, Ferrari<\/a>‘s Hamilton was asked on how much say the drivers were having over new tweaks, giving the seven-time world champion the opportunity to call for further change<\/a>.He said: “All the drivers, we do work together, we all meet, but the fact is we don\u2019t have a seat at the table. We do engage with the FIA<\/a> and F1 – F1\u2019s more often a little bit more responsive – but being that we\u2019re not stakeholders, we don\u2019t have a seat at the table currently, which I think needs to change.Norris backs Hamilton’s calls for F1 drivers to have a ‘seat at the table’\u00a0\"Norris\"\/<\/p>\n

Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n

Fellow Briton Norris has supported Hamilton’s calls, adding that drivers are often “blindsided” when it comes to “external” decisions. Norris told media, including GPblog: “From first place to last place, we all want the same thing. We all just want to go flat out, race closely and at the same time, that\u2019s the show that the fans want. <\/p>\n

\u201cHaving a seat at the table, it\u2019s something we\u2019ve spoken about as the GPDA. We\u2019re all very aligned with that. Sometimes I think we have to accept, as drivers, we\u2019re very blindsided to the externals from a business side of things, how teams work, how all of that is organised.”<\/p>\n

Norris conceded that drivers are not always going to get decisions right, and that there is a business side to consider, but argues it would be more beneficial for the fans and the sport as a whole if drivers had more of a voice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to accept that we\u2019re maybe not always completely correct,” he added. “But I think the majority of things that we think of as drivers and what we want for the sport is a win-win. It\u2019s better for us and it\u2019s better for the fans, and that\u2019s our side of things. <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s just how some of those things are done and not always able to be easily implemented, because of how the sport is as a whole, the money and the cost of things and all that, regulations, rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something that we want. It\u2019s what they have in a lot of other sports. It\u2019s more of just a louder voice at times, rather than \u2018drivers want this, why are you not doing it?\u2019 It\u2019s just a bit more of a say in some things and persuasion in directions into the future. At the minute, we don\u2019t have that. So it\u2019s more we just can\u2019t voice our opinion as much as we would like. But that\u2019s something we\u2019re working on,” the world champion concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren‘s Lando Norris has backed Lewis Hamilton‘s calls for F1 drivers to have a “seat at the table”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,28673,930,3754,576,577,591,932,590,91538,82],"class_list":["post-667676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-ferrari","tag-fia","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-mclaren","tag-miami-grand-prix","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667676","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=667676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}