{"id":917026,"date":"2026-10-01T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:12:12","slug":"lando-norris-skipped-f1-kart-race-in-malaysia-this-is-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917026\/","title":{"rendered":"Lando Norris skipped F1 kart race in Malaysia: this is why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lando Norris<\/a> joined the boys’ trip with other Formula 1<\/a> drivers in Malaysia but decided to skip karting.Ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, several Formula 1 drivers, including George Russell, Carlos Sainz, Alex Albon, Oliver Bearman, Gabriel Bortoleto and Oscar Piastri, went karting<\/a>. They were also joined by former F1<\/a> driver Roberto Merhi.<\/p>\n

Norris did multiple activities on the boys’ trip, but he did not go to karting with the others. He explained to GPblog, among others: “Everyone else went karting, and I did a bit of training, and I stayed in. I didn’t go to the karting. I certainly don’t think from what I heard, it made anyone treat each other better, and be honest, I think it made it even worse. And from what I heard, everyone put each other in the wall at some point.”<\/p>\n

Therefore, Norris does not believe spending time with your rivals off the circuit makes things better once the helmet and gloves go on.<\/p>\n

The defending world champion continued: “I think people are able to separate personal life and personal time from when you\u2019re putting a helmet on. I think you become two different people. You are two different versions of yourself.<\/p>\n

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“So it\u2019s nice that you get to spend a little bit of time with them outside of racing. I knew all of these guys pretty well already, but at the same time, they all went karting and I thought, \u2018This is a bit of time when I don\u2019t have to spend time with them.\u2019 It\u2019s nice to have a bit of time to myself and do my own thing. That\u2019s what I enjoy a lot in my life.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t agree with that kind of statement that racing is more friendly. I think at times it\u2019s the opposite of that. But it\u2019s nice that we get to just be normal people away from the track, have a bit of downtime and get to see maybe a different side of people. That\u2019s a good thing as well,” the McLaren<\/a> driver concluded.Russell set the fastest time<\/p>\n

According to the timesheet from the F1 drivers’ karting race, the Mercedes driver set the quickest lap time. However, the Briton admitted he had no clue who actually won the race, as it was ‘absolute carnage.’<\/p>\n

Gokart Times ResultsDriversLap timesP1George Russell (g dawg)1:24.214P2Roberto Merhi (RM98)1:24.677P3Carlos Sainz (55)1:25.722P4Alex Albon (Albino Albino)1:25.936P5Oliver Bearman (ollieb)1:26.255P6Gabriel Bortoleto (gabriiiii)1:26.305P7Oscar Piastri (OP)1:26.422<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris joined the boys’ trip with other Formula 1 drivers in Malaysia but decided to skip karting.Ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,28673,576,577,591,590,82],"class_list":["post-917026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","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\/917026","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=917026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}