Lando Norris shares 2026 F1 target in defiant mess...

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Lando Norris has confirmed that his aim is to safe a back-to-back Formulation 1 drivers’ championship title in 2026, after profitable his first in 2025.

The McLaren driver accepted the Autosport Champion award on the 2026 Autosport Awards and confirmed to the cheering crowd that his eyes are on the title as soon as once more within the upcoming season.

“It is completely the aim. Sure, it is completely, completely the aim,” the Briton stated after avoiding the query from host Greg James. “Definitely, profitable one offers you much more confidence. It is totally different for everybody, proper? You have to discover your individual manner of doing issues, and you’ve got folks with extra confidence, folks with much less.

“I’ve by no means been the one to have probably the most confidence in myself. I actually have extra of it now, that is for positive. I’ve at all times been a seeing-is-believing type of man, however that is even for myself. So I’ve at all times needed to see myself on the highest step, see myself profitable to lastly imagine that I can do it. However actually final 12 months, I managed to understand that earlier than I achieved it.

“Already midway via the season, I felt like I had all the pieces I wanted. The folks round me, the workforce, the automobile, and my very own capacity to exit and win the championship. In order that first time I actually had the assumption in myself was final 12 months, and it turned out to be the right factor to have. So, that was the attractive factor, too.”

2026 brings in a brand new wave of laws to the championship, permitting the grid to degree itself as every workforce as soon as once more begins from zero. Nobody is aware of which groups will rise to the highest, however Norris is hopeful.

There have been predictions that Mercedes-powered automobiles – the ability unit McLaren makes use of – are more likely to carry out effectively given the Brackley outfit’s dominance through the earlier hybrid period from 2014 to 2021. However we cannot know till the automobiles hit the observe on the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.