{"id":360173,"date":"2026-01-09T03:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360173\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:46:12","slug":"mclaren-say-no-celebrations-in-woking-for-lando-norris-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360173\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren say no celebrations in Woking for Lando Norris title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In December, Woking Borough Council leader Ann\u2011Marie Barker wrote to McLaren&#8217;s CEO Zak Brown to congratulate the team..<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I do hope that we can celebrate this historic achievement locally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;February&#8217;s town\u2011centre celebration of your 2024 Constructors&#8217; Championship was a tremendous success, with activities fully booked and exceptional community engagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We would be delighted to support your future plans so our community can once again share in the pride of your success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, the BBC asked McLaren about their plans for celebrating Norris&#8217;s win, but a spokesperson said: &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid we won&#8217;t be hosting any celebrations in Woking this time unfortunately as the team are super busy preparing for the season ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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&#8217;s title since Sir Lewis Hamilton in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In December, Woking Borough Council leader Ann\u2011Marie Barker wrote to McLaren&#8217;s CEO Zak Brown to congratulate the team..&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-360173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360173","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=360173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}