{"id":877584,"date":"2026-08-30T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877584\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:46:11","slug":"lando-norris-new-contract-signing-bonus-is-one-of-the-coolest-gifts-in-f1-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877584\/","title":{"rendered":"Lando Norris’ new contract signing bonus is one of the coolest gifts in F1 history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lando Norris has pledged his future to McLaren in a long-awaited new contract, but the eye-watering salary is far from the coolest reward in his deal.<\/p>\n

After getting back to winning ways in the Formula 1 campaign, Lando Norris<\/a> has cemented his McLaren status for seasons to come.<\/p>\n

The reigning world champion is McLaren<\/a> through and through, but with looming questions over the future of Max Verstappen and talks progressing to get him in papaya overalls, there was a slight chance that we could have seen Norris make way.<\/p>\n

But both parties are continuing with their star drivers, as Max Verstappen recently penned his signature<\/a> on a bumper Red Bull deal, and now Lando Norris has been rewarded with a hefty raise.<\/p>\n

Norris’ new McLaren deal<\/a> keeps him at the team until 2030 and is reportedly worth around \u00a360 million a year, making him the third-highest-paid driver on the grid behind Verstappen and fellow British racer Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n

Yet details have emerged that Norris has also received a new car as a signing bonus, and it’s absolutely the best thing you could ever gift to a world champion.<\/p>\n

Lando Norris gifted incredible F1 car in new McLaren contract<\/p>\n

In a statement provided to Planet F1, McLaren has provided Norris with the iconic car in which he won the F1 Drivers’ Championship in 2025.<\/p>\n

“In addition to confirming his future with McLaren for the next four years at least, Lando will be gifted an MCL39, which he raced during his 2025 world championship-winning season,” McLaren said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis gift serves as a lasting reminder of his contribution to the team, in particular his part in securing the team\u2019s second consecutive constructors\u2019 title in 2025, while also becoming the team\u2019s first Formula 1 Drivers\u2019 World Champion since 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n

Usually, McLaren keeps their most famous cars and displays them in a row at their headquarters in Woking, UK, but this one will be entering Norris’ garage<\/p>\n

Only a handful of drivers ever get to keep official F1 cars, with McLaren manager Zak Brown boasting one of the biggest collections of retired chassis.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: The extraordinary numbers behind Lando Norris’ reported new McLaren contract<\/a><\/p>\n

Lando Norris’ car collection continues to grow<\/p>\n

Despite being the fastest man on the grid in 2025\/26, Norris’ car collection is still lagging behind his more experienced drivers like Fernando Alonso, but it’s certainly growing.<\/p>\n

McLaren specifically has already bolstered his garage with a 765LT Spider, a P1, and Senna, while he’s added a Rolls-Royce Wraith, a Ferrari F40, a Shelby Cobra 427, and a classic Fiat 500 Jolly to a growing garage.<\/p>\n

Before the MCL39, Norris’ collection was reportedly worth around \u00a310 million. With a new \u00a360 million-a-year salary, no doubt that it will continue to expand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris has pledged his future to McLaren in a long-awaited new contract, but the eye-watering salary is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,591,590,82],"class_list":["post-877584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris","tag-mclaren","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877584","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=877584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}