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Lando Norris says his goal is to spend his entire Formula 1 career with McLaren, insisting ahead of Silverstone that he is “heavily committed” to the team even though there is one other outfit he would consider in the distant future.
Speaking on the Beyond The Grid podcast, Norris was asked whether he sees himself as a one-team F1 driver. The McLaren driver and 2025 world champion replied: “Very, very potentially because I don't know how long I'll be in Formula 1. My contract still goes for a good amount of years so I know I'm not leaving any time soon.” He then added: “If there's any place I want to go, there's only one place I'd ever be interested in but that's very, very in the distant future.”
Norris made clear that, for now, there is no ambiguity about where he wants to be. “I'm heavily committed to McLaren being the only team I'll ever want to be with and I feel like they're my family,” he said. “I want to do as much as I can with McLaren for as long as possible, for five years, 10 years.”
He went further still by setting out the ideal end point of that relationship. “For me, that's my goal, to be with McLaren forever,” Norris said.
That stance carries extra weight given how closely his career is tied to the Woking team. Norris joined McLaren’s Young Driver Programme in 2017 and stepped up to Formula 1 with the team in 2019. By winning the 2025 title, he became McLaren’s first drivers’ champion since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.
His record with the team helps explain the strength of that attachment. Norris has scored 11 wins, 16 pole positions and 46 podiums in 159 grands prix, holds McLaren’s all-time record for most starts, and helped deliver constructors’ championships in 2024 and 2025.
What makes his latest comments notable is that he did not present loyalty as something dependent on immediate success. Norris said he had chances to look elsewhere during leaner years and chose not to. “I didn't win for six years, I could have gone to different places and I didn't because, at the end of the day, I just want to enjoy,” he said.
He said that instinct would not automatically change if results became harder to come by again. “Even sometimes if you're not winning, that doesn't mean I necessarily want to go to another team,” Norris said. “I just want to be with the people that I enjoy being with and that's the only thing I really care about.”
For McLaren, that is a significant statement from the driver who has grown through its system, delivered its first drivers’ crown in 17 years and now talks openly about making the partnership a career-long one.