Lando Norris

Kareena Kapoor Khan had a Bollywood surprise for Lando Norris when the two met at the Singapore Grand Prix

The race in Baku was won by Mercedes’ George Russell, but Norris was forced to retire when Colapinto went into turn one too hot on a safety car restart, locked up and drove into the side of his teammate Pierre Gasly, who was shunted into the side of Norris, ending the race for all three drivers

Mercedes driver opens up an 81-point lead over teammate Russell

The McLaren driver saw off a spirited assault by Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli, who was second, with a superb lap at a circuit that has proved challenging to master and punishing on the slightest of errors

The McLaren driver launched the project at an event in Monza, which will host the Italian Grand Prix this weekend

From junior prodigy to team talisman, Norris cements decade-long McLaren journey

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The British driver started on pole and managed to come out on top of a sensational three-way battle with current title leader Kimi Antonelli and seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton

Russell started from pole position, quickly built a gap to Lando Norris in second and managed the pace from there, taking his first win since the Austrian Grand Prix in June

Norris recovered from losing his pole advantage on the opening lap, when teammate Oscar Piastri passed him

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Audi have entered the sport this season after taking over Swiss-based Sauber, with the German carmaker encouraged by new rules that have increased the electrical element of the power unit to near-parity with the internal combustion engine

Championship leader Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes and his closest challenger Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton were both slapped with three place grid penalties on Saturday for this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix

Hamilton appeared on course to end a three-year run without taking pole only to be usurped by Norris in the closing moments of a thrilling qualifying session at the Hungaroring

The use of an almost 50-50 split in electrical power and the internal combustion engine is understood to have been central in attracting manufacturers such as Audi and Honda into F1 this season

Mercedes are investigating but his fury is the tip of the iceberg of the knock-on effects of this year’s regulations that were once more laid bare in Spa

Lando Norris was third place, but McLaren’s defending world champion has a 10-place grid penalty after he used his fourth battery unit of the season, one more than allowed under regulations, meaning he’ll start Sunday’s race from 13th

Day two of The Open gets under way at Royal Birkdale, while St Helens play Catalans Dragons at the BrewDog Stadium in Super League

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The circuit and the strategy and indeed the heat played a part, as did a safety car, but the striking fact was that the Ferrari was all but on a par with the Mercedes, whose Kimi Antonelli currently leads the championship from Hamilton by 41 points

Yellow helmet still on, Hamilton pumped his fists and took a running leap into the arms of his fellow crimson-clad crew members after parking his Ferrari in the No 1 spot on winner's row following his masterful race at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix on Sunday

Lewis Hamilton Claims An Emotional First Win In Ferrari Red In Barcelona As Kimi Antonelli Suffers Late Heartbreak

George Russell scorched to pole position for Sunday’s Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix after Lewis Hamilton narrowly failed to pip him with a thrilling last-ditch effort for Ferrari

Russell enjoyed a sunny and trouble-free ​afternoon as he lapped the Circuit de ⁠Barcelona-Catalunya with a fastest time of ​one minute 16.363 seconds, 0.203 quicker than ​McLaren's Oscar Piastri

The championship leader edged out his nearest rivals during a highly tense final segment of qualifying, ensuring the best possible track position for Sunday's showpiece race

Founded by the late New Zealander with barely a handful of employees, McLaren celebrate their 1,000th Formula 1 start in Monaco this weekend as only the second outfit after Ferrari to reach such a mighty milestone

Canadian GP Race Results: Mercedes rookie prodigy Andrea Kimi Antonelli secured a magnificent fourth consecutive Formula One victory following a highly attritional, rain-threatened Canadian Grand Prix

George Russell snatched a dramatic, last-gasp pole position for the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix, narrowly edging out his Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli in a thrilling qualifying session at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

His third straight win extends his lead at the top of this year's F1 world championship

But McLaren’s enthusiasm was then quickly dented when Piastri could only finish seventh and Norris fourth in qualifying for Sunday’s main race, while championship leader Kimi Antonelli reasserted Mercedes’ mastery by making it three poles in a row

Kimi Antonelli's remarkable form from China and Japan bled into this weekend's qualifying, as the Mercedes man lines up at pole position on the grid when the race ensues at 6pm (UK time)

Lando Norris takes Miami GP sprint pole to deny Mercedes for first time in 2026

While Aston Martin’s Canadian driver, Lance Stroll lambasted the new formula as “fundamentally flawed” and a thousand times less fun than Formula Three, others took a more positive approach

Tweaks and rain could make it a more level-playing field threatening Mercedes’ dominance

Formula One returns after a five-week break with this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix

Tweaks and rain could make it a more level-playing field threatening Mercedes’ dominance

On Monday F1 announced the changes to the regulations, which will come into force at the next round in Miami on 3 May

The Filipina tennis star dazzled on the red carpet in Madrid

Oliver Bearman emerging unhurt from a huge accident at the Japanese Grand Prix was considered a lucky escape

It was a miserable, unlucky afternoon for Russell at the Japanese Grand Prix — an untimely safety car after Ollie Bearman’s major 191mph shunt, wrecking any chance of victory

It was a miserable, unlucky afternoon for Russell at the Japanese Grand Prix — an untimely safety car after Ollie Bearman’s major 191mph shunt, wrecking any chance of victory

Mercedes continue to dominate the early stages of the 2026 campaign with Kimi Antonelli securing back-to-back pole positions after his first victory in China two weeks ago

George Russell and Kimi Antonelli have won each of the first two races, and Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc have flip-flopped finishing third and fourth

Norris, born and raised in Somerset, southwest England, burst onto the Formula One stage in 2019 and last year the McLaren driver won his maiden Formula One world title

19-year-old converted being the youngest pole-sitter in Formula One history into victory

Liam Lawson has secured his first points of the 2026 Formula One season after finishing seventh in the Chinese Grand Prix sprint race

Verstappen qualified only in eighth and finished the sprint out of the points in ninth on Saturday morning

Championship leader tops every phase of session in Shanghai, but teammate Kimi Antonelli could be punished for impeding Lando Norris

George Russell won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, managing to stay ahead of teammate Kimi Antonelli and Ferrari's Charles Leclerc

F1 has adopted complex regulations that require management of electrical energy

The 2026 Formula 1 season opener in Melbourne quickly turned into one of the most dramatic Australian Grands Prix in recent memory