Lando Norris commits to McLaren until at least 2030

Lando Norris agreed a multi-year contract with McLaren that will run until at least 2030 at a friends and families day at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking on August 29, 2026. The 26-year-old, the defending Formula One world champion, said he wants to spend his entire career with the team he described as like "a second family".

Norris made his F1 debut with McLaren in 2019 after joining the team’s young driver programme in 2017, and his existing contract was due to expire at the end of this year. He emphasised he had not considered leaving McLaren and that, while other teams had made advances, he had made no approaches elsewhere. The move keeps him at the squad during a period that followed an extended rebuilding phase for McLaren.

Norris said the decision was straightforward for him: "It really was the easiest decision I’ve had to make in my career so far." He added: "I’ll be very, very happy at the end of my career to say that McLaren is the only team I’ve been with. I kind of want my whole career to be with McLaren, because I’m happy here and I don’t want to change." He also insisted that even through tougher seasons there had been no doubt about his commitment: "Even when we go through a harder year, such as we’ve had so far this year, there’s no thought comes to my head of: ‘Was this the right decision or not?’"

Norris recorded his first podium at the Austrian Grand Prix in 2020 and took his first Grand Prix victory in Miami in 2024, the same year McLaren won the constructors’ championship. Last year, with Norris winning the title, McLaren secured both the drivers’ and constructors’ crowns. Across 163 grands prix for the team he has 13 wins and is described in the source as McLaren’s longest-serving driver.

This season McLaren initially struggled under new regulations but introduced comprehensive upgrades and returned to contention, with Norris winning the last two races at Zandvoort and the Hungaroring. The team presented him with one of the MCL39 cars he drove to the title in 2025 as part of the contract arrangement announced at the Woking event. The announcement was made during the team’s friends and families day at the McLaren Technology Centre.

No financial terms of the contract were disclosed. Norris conceded his deal was "certainly not close to the level of Lewis or Max," and said: "It shouldn’t be because I’ve not achieved as much as they have in their career. In a way, I believe it should be, because I believe I can fight against them whenever I need to and I can do a better job whenever I need to. So I guess I have the two opinions on it." The article states that Hamilton’s deal with Ferrari is thought to be worth $60m (£44.3m) a year and that Verstappen’s new contract with Red Bull, announced at the Dutch GP last weekend, prompted speculation it was worth as much as $100m a year.

Last year Norris’s teammate Oscar Piastri also agreed to a multi-year contract extension with McLaren. Andrea Stella praised Norris’s qualities off and on the track and described him as highly valued within the organisation.

Stella said: "Lando is an exceptional driver, someone who combines outstanding natural speed with maturity, consistency and a strong commitment to McLaren, but above all, he is a special human being who is valued by everyone in the team. This extension gives us important continuity and reinforces our confidence in the direction we are taking together."