{"id":104836,"date":"2025-08-31T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/104836\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:18:07","slug":"lando-norris-jokes-of-walking-away-if-he-wins-formula-one-drivers-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/104836\/","title":{"rendered":"Lando Norris jokes of walking away if he wins Formula One drivers\u2019 championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lando Norris<\/a> suggested he would realise his life goal by winning the Formula One World Drivers\u2019 Championship<\/a> and even joked he may emulate Nico Rosberg<\/a> and walk away after clinching his first title.<\/p>\n

The British driver has been locked in a head-to-head battle with McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri<\/a> throughout the season as the pair duel to win their maiden championship.<\/p>\n

Norris has returned from the sport\u2019s summer break nine points adrift of the Australian after winning three of the last four races.<\/p>\n

With 10 rounds of the championship remaining, including this weekend\u2019s showdown in Zandvoort, Norris accepts that the race for the crown now feels \u201creal\u201d.<\/p>\n

German Nico Rosberg famously walked away from the sport after triumphing in a fierce title battle with Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n

Seven-time world champion Hamilton spoke this weekend about attempting to recapture the fun of driving in Formula One after his struggles during his debut season with Ferrari.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Lewis, he\u2019s won so much,\u201d Norris said. \u201cHe probably has achieved the title of being one of the best ever in Formula One.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially if you\u2019re now not winning, it\u2019s hard to\u2026 I\u2019m enjoying this season a lot more now because I\u2019m winning \u2013 than the last few seasons when we were not winning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just because you want success and you want to be on top. It\u2019s better for everyone in any sport you ever do.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re always going to be happier when you\u2019re winning than when you\u2019re not. I think it\u2019s hard to do when you\u2019re not winning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why probably sometimes it\u2019s good to go out when you\u2019ve won, like Nico.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pushed on whether he would consider calling it quits should he win the title this season, the 25-year-old said: \u201cNo, I don\u2019t know. Maybe. Maybe. I might not be here next year. You never know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norris has spent the summer break trying to get away from the intensity of the championship fight.<\/p>\n

He spent a large chunk of it on the golf course, adding: \u201cFor me, anyway, it\u2019s really about trying to forget that I drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cTry to think I\u2019m a golfer and really just take my mind completely away from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norris referenced Rory McIlroy\u2019s admission that he struggled for motivation after ending his long wait for a Masters win to complete the career grand slam this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cRory said it after winning the Masters. His life goal was to achieve that. That can be it for some people,\u201d the McLaren man added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you achieve your life goal, then you\u2019re like \u2018well, I\u2019ve worked for a number of years to try and achieve a Masters win\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you feel like you don\u2019t enjoy some of the other things maybe as much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norris has returned from the summer shutdown focused and ready for the challenge of becoming world champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels real, like you\u2019re actually fighting for a championship, which is a cool feeling, because it\u2019s my first,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it feels pretty special. You also know every single weekend is important, it means a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-104836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}