Lando Norris tells us what will be different this season | 2026 Preseason Interview!
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Hello, everybody.
Welcome back to The Fast and the Curious.
If you are a long-time listener, you will know that we speak to some of the biggest names in the sport,
which is what we're doing today.
And we try and keep you in the loop with everything that is going on in the mad world of Formula One.
I'm Betty Glover.
Hello.
Greg James pops in sometimes as well.
He's not here today.
But our resident Formula One geek, Christian Hugill, is, of course.
You never not hear Christian.
No, I tend to be.
I don't have anything else to do with my life other than talk about Formula One.
Well, actually, I beg to differ because you are now a dog dad.
So you've got a lot going on.
Genuinely, I think...
We won't do long on this because we're speaking to a Formula One driver
and the literal world champion.
Do keep it quick, yeah.
Yeah, I've had more DMs and messages about getting a dog
than I think I've ever had in anything in my professional life.
So other than trying to get a Golden Retriever Poppy to do a poo in the rain,
other than that, I don't have anything to do other than talk about Formula One.
So, and yeah, Formula One is re-emerging from its sort of, you know, winter slumber,
isn't it, Betty Glover?
So we've had Shakedown Week,
which has been where everybody gets used to these new regulations.
We're going to talk about that a little bit more in our next episode.
We've got two actual proper pre-season tests to come in Bahrain,
but we thought this was a good opportunity to speak to not just any old Formula One driver,
the actual world champion.
Yeah, we've only gone and got the world champion, Lando Norris.
Let's get him in.
Lando Norris, welcome back to the Fast and the Curious.
Thank you very much.
Nice to see you all again.
Lando, has anything significant changed since we last had you on?
Any sort of status, I wonder?
No.
Not really.
Honestly, it's all pretty much the same.
I mean, yeah, apart from having a number one on my suit and my helmet and things like that,
you know, my life is really pretty much the same,
which is a good thing.
It's just I have a lot of great memories and awesome pictures
and deep down, I know I achieved an incredible thing.
So, no, I guess I just feel better,
but otherwise the outlook is generally the same.
What is it like driving the car with a number one on it?
Is that weird?
I think it's more weird when I see it rather than just simply driving.
When I see it on, as I said in one of the other videos,
on the timing screens and things like that,
I've been, what, for the last six years, seven years,
used to just always seeing the number four,
and then all of a sudden you're number one.
So it's weird for the eye just because you get very used to always seeing,
getting used to something.
But when I see it in pictures and things like that,
it's just cool because you don't think about it 24-7 as much as I want to.
You don't think you're out of 24-7.
But when you then see it, it's like a constant reminder,
and then you think about it and you're like, oh, I did that.
So it's pretty amazing.
I now sort of wish you were thinking about it 24-7
and really taking the mick with it.
So, Landau, do you want a coffee?
Is it a World Champions coffee?
Because if so, I shall take it.
If so, I'm not interested.
No, that's not me.
We know it's not you, but that said,
and humour is for a second,
with little things when people say I'm joined by the World Champion
or Landau and I are as Formula One World Champion,
surely the novelty of that's not worn off yet.
You don't need to play it cool. That's massively cool.
No, I think that's still something that's not even settled in yet.
It's still just a reality of it.
The fact it is a reality, which is an amazing thing.
That's one of the best feelings.
I'm still trying to realise it's happened
and be achieved and we're World Champions.
When someone says it, it's just cool.
The more people I say it, the better.
It will never wear off.
Have you had anyone weird or particularly interesting
or someone you didn't expect to say congratulations to you?
Has anyone popped into your DMs and you're like,
oh, wow.
Honestly, I've not read half of them.
I understand them all.
I have so many that I've not even looked.
I need to, honestly, because it takes quite a while.
It's still taken me to this day to reply to half of them.
I've seen a few days of trying to just go through every single one,
whether it's on Instagram or on WhatsApp or something.
There's just a lot of amazing people.
I wouldn't say weird people.
There's a lot of people just from different sports.
Every different sport, whether they're incredible at a sport,
like one of the best,
or they're just people that I've watched growing up,
young people, old people.
When you see something like that, the amount of support you get
or just congratulations and respect
is something that I just admire a lot.
It's a beautiful thing,
and I'm very much obliged to anyone that I've not responded to yet,
because I still need to spend more time doing it.
I'm sure they'd forgive you to be fair.
David Beckham, I feel like always pops up
when someone wins something from the UK.
Has he slid into your DMs?
Has he messaged you?
We speak every now and then about different things,
and he did send me a message.
David is always great.
He's in the garage every now and then,
and he plays guitar a few different places.
That's a cool guy.
It's always nice when his name pops up for sure.
Well done, Betty.
We're having that one, David Beckham popped up.
We'll have that, lovely work, excellent.
Lando, I can still remember meeting you for the first time
before your first Grand Prix,
which seems about 100 years ago now.
From the pictures, we both look a lot younger,
but you've aged better than me.
Definitely.
Even then, you were talking like,
yeah, the dream is to be world champion one day,
and you'll have said that from beyond then,
from going back into karting.
Now you've had the winter,
and you've reflected on it, and some of it sank in.
How does it feel to have not just to have achieved
like a goal that you've wanted to achieve in life,
but the goal, like the ultimate?
That's something that not everyone will do in their life,
no matter what that goal is.
That must be amazing. What's it like?
It's true.
Yeah, that's like my life.
I'm happy for life now,
because simply it's what I've dreamt of doing my whole life,
in a way. It's all I've worked towards,
it's all I've tried to do since I was,
yeah, like six years old, basically.
For something to take so long
in order to achieve that one goal,
I think is what makes it so incredible.
It's not like you wake up one day,
and the next year it's done.
It's from the age of six,
all the way to when I was basically 26,
almost 20 years of trying to achieve one thing.
But it's one of the most prestigious, incredible things
you can possibly do in the world.
So it's still unbelievable.
Like I said, it's still an unbelievable thing to think of.
But especially when it's me,
and for my family, my friends,
the people who have kind of been on that whole journey with me,
I think for them it's also the same feeling,
because they know what it's taken to get there.
Just on that, I wanted to ask you about your mum,
because she had so many viral moments last season,
but particularly the last race as well.
She had so much airtime, didn't she?
Is she enjoying her newfound fame?
I think so, it's a problem.
Too much.
Honestly, I've not even watched it back yet, the race.
I love it. I need to sit down and just watch it,
and see from the other perspective of seeing what people saw on TV and things.
I had a pretty good seat for the whole thing,
so I saw a good bit.
She loves it.
She's there cheering me on and supporting me,
and that's something I would never want, right?
So that's a great thing.
It's not hard choice to be on TV,
but it doesn't seem to love one.
That's a beautiful thing.
She's brilliant.
I know, she's always great.
But it must be cool doing all this with your parents beside you,
because also, I remember watching the Vegas qualifying
from the McLaren hospitality,
and it was obviously that point of the season,
it's really squeaky run time.
Your dad was a few seats in front of me,
and the electricity going through him was unbelievable.
I was genuinely thinking he was going to put his foot
through the motorhome floor, like he was bouncing.
And they feel every emotion too, don't they?
Yeah, I mean, yeah, they both do.
They don't like to watch the start of races.
I guess, I think it's worse when you're not,
it's almost worse for them,
because they have no control over anything that happens.
So you're just a passenger at that point.
Which I think makes it harder in many ways.
But they've supported me,
I wouldn't be here without my parents,
since the beginning.
Yeah, and I mean, especially in those moments,
because as much as it is my dream,
it was also my dad's,
and my mom's at the same time in some ways.
Yeah, but it all kind of started with my dad
going karting with him once, and my brother,
and kind of living his dream in some ways.
He loved racing when he was younger,
he just never, he couldn't do it.
So he got to share almost his dream with me,
and I got to kind of fulfill one of his dreams at the same time,
which is a beautiful thing, right?
So yeah, no, I couldn't have done it without them,
so I was happy that they could all,
my whole family basically was there,
so it was very, very special.
So it really doesn't feel like it was that long ago.
I feel like there hasn't been a break,
there hasn't really been an off season.
You must feel that more so than everybody else.
What have you done?
So like driving aside,
did you do anything sort of in between that's cool?
Yeah, I mean, I just,
I spent a good amount of time with my friends.
We went away for New Year,
I went to see my parents for Christmas,
and then I went away with my mates for New Year.
And that's just what I love to do,
like I'm going to play some golf,
and have a few drinks on the beach, that kind of thing.
So it's just, sometimes simple things are,
honestly, just as cool as it gets.
And I had a beautiful New Year,
a beautiful trip to Finland.
And that's all I like.
I just love doing that to go and experience some things
and be with my mates and have a good time.
That's the best part of all of it really.
So not a lot.
Like I honestly wish I could have had another month
to just sit back, relax with all of you.
Because it's been the shortest off season,
probably almost of my career, I would say.
So yeah, a bit of a weird one,
but that's also a formal one, right?
So it's, and it's my job.
So yeah, I got to get cracking.
And yeah, stop trying to only think of last year,
but at the same time,
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I think what so many people who listen to this podcast like
is that you are always like,
you're very bold in saying,
I want to do this my way
and I want to be myself.
And whether that is needing to go
and have those moments,
as you say, like New Year
and just step away from it all,
which some people need to do
or whether it's when you're in season.
Like, are you particularly proud
for having sort of done it your way?
You've spoken a lot about this of like,
not changing who you are,
not letting sport change who you are
as a person,
which sometimes when it's so all consuming,
you know,
it can be easy to slip into that, can't it?
Yeah, I mean, it's,
it's a complicated thing.
And yeah, I don't know.
Everyone just has different personalities,
different traits.
And if I really wanted to
and yeah,
if I really wanted to
and wanted to go out on track
and yeah,
drive in a different way
and be a lot more just over aggressive
and I don't know,
I could easily do that,
but it's just,
I don't know.
I don't,
I almost enjoy doing that.
It's just so the opposite of me as a person.
So,
I mean,
obviously I hear a lot of people saying
you're doing your own way and stuff.
And I don't think a lot of people
generally know
like the whole understanding of that kind of thing.
But it's,
and a lot of it's between, you know,
me, my team,
Andrea kind of started a lot of it with Andrea.
So,
you know,
it's very much an us thing
and the understanding is between us.
But it's just,
you're not trying to be,
be someone you're not,
you know,
not trying to go out and think,
oh,
you know,
Schumacher did this,
you know,
all those years ago,
I need to try and be more like that or,
or Seb did this
or Max did that,
Louis did like,
you know,
it's easy to almost idolize
and think you've got to be something you're not.
And you've got to just find
what you feel comfortable with.
And in the end of the day,
I've got to find just what I'm happy with.
Like I also want to,
I also do formal one because I just,
because I love it.
And for me,
that's all,
although it's a very simple thing to say and easy to say,
it is the priority because the more I enjoy something
and it's the harder it makes me want to work for it
and the better the results and that kind of thing.
So,
as long as I started in,
with the correct,
you know,
bullet point,
which is go out and have fun.
As much as it's just an easy statement to put out
in front of everyone,
it has to start like that for me.
So I got to do it,
yeah,
my way from that understanding.
And that's,
that's the most important thing.
I love that.
I'm going to live my life by that as well.
That's,
that's what I'm going to do now in 2026.
I'm going to copy it.
I also just love how honest you are
and how vulnerable you are.
And like,
you'll say if you're struggling with something,
you'll say if you're really enjoying something
and it's going well,
but you're just so like open about everything.
And I wonder like,
is it easy for you to do that?
Does it just come naturally?
Or is that something that you've had to sort of work on?
Um,
I think I've had to work on not being as opposite.
I have to work on not being as open with a lot of things.
Um,
which I think I,
you know,
I feel like I did change a little bit last year.
And you know,
I started the season in a pretty bad way
in terms of,
apart from Australia,
my performance after that.
Um,
yeah,
how tough I was on myself,
that kind of thing.
But I was also how always been,
which is also just because it's a high stress,
high pressure situation.
I'm fighting for a championship.
I'm fighting to win races.
I'm not going to be happy when I'm doing a bad job
and I'm making mistakes
and I'm not performing at the level that I know I can perform at.
Um,
yeah,
that's just,
it doesn't make me happy
and I'm not going to come in and pretend that I'm not.
So I'm just going to tell you,
and I definitely don't think it's had,
had as much of an effect as what people say
from the outside.
Um,
you know,
like it's, it's not,
yeah,
like I'm just giving you the truth
and it's easy to do that,
but it's not like I'm always telling myself the wrong thing.
Um,
because I know what I'm capable of doing.
So it's not like I don't believe I can do certain things.
I'm just saying I did a bad job today
because I know I could have done a lot better.
Um,
so it's more just, yeah,
it's the honesty.
It's,
it's easy again for me to come in
and not be like that
and to completely change how I approach things and,
and so forth.
But again, that's just not me.
That's not how I was brought up.
That's not just the ease of how I like to say things.
So,
um,
I hate not having honesty from within my own team.
Um,
like honesty is,
is one of the most important things.
So if I've done a bad job,
I want my team to tell me I've done a bad job,
not ever try and make it,
you know, too nice or be too kind to me
on that kind of thing.
Um,
just because of the position that I'm in
and,
and my job, whatever it is,
you know,
so I prefer them just to give me the,
the hurtful truth in a way
than trying to be overly kind.
Um,
and that's just my way of,
of going about it
and trying to get the most out of myself.
I think people really appreciate it.
I think,
I think people take a lot from you wanting to be yourself.
That's not easy to do in life,
let alone in,
in sport.
I think people really take a lot.
And I think it's something that,
that your fans love about you.
So,
you know,
good on your Lando Norris.
Um,
now obviously you've done the shaked down
and the,
the big thing all people always say is it's too early to tell
what's going to happen
from the shaked down.
So with that in mind,
tell us how many points you'll win this world championship by.
Uh,
which races you're most likely to win.
Uh,
and everything about the car in great detail
that you've learned from the last week.
Um,
no,
I mean,
there are a lot of differences.
Um,
it is too early to say,
you know,
we've got another two tests to see up.
And after that,
we can give better conclusions of things,
um,
or predictions.
But,
um,
yeah,
you never know what other people are doing.
And it's,
and it's such a big regulation change.
I'm not a lot of stuff that we had last year that might have
made us quick is necessarily a carryover to this year.
So it's really,
um,
everyone trying to reset
and just take a whole new approach to everything.
Once again,
but still working in the same way that we did previously
because that is,
I think something that made us a very,
very strong team and a championship winning team.
Um,
it was different.
I mean, the car handles different.
It's obviously got more power up to a certain point.
Um,
quite a bit less downforce.
So it's much trickier to,
to kind of handle that power.
Um,
slower in the corners,
especially the medium and high speed corners.
So it's,
it's a different beast.
Uh,
in many ways,
but still just as challenging or even more challenging.
Um,
as a car and also,
uh,
to control the power unit, the battery,
all of these things which have also changed quite a lot.
So,
um,
a big challenge for us as drivers,
I would say,
but also just a big challenge for everyone.
So,
you know,
I want to be confident because I believe a lot of my team,
uh,
that we're going to be,
that we're going to be strong and we're going to be fighting.
But,
you know,
a lot of other teams and Mercedes look very strong.
Um,
and some of the others look good.
They're ready to cross loner.
So,
um,
yeah,
you know,
it's, uh,
we've got time like it's,
it was just the first shakedown.
We've got two more tests.
It's a very long season.
So it's one of those or even if we don't start off on the
last season,
as much as we are making sure we do,
um,
it's not the end of the world.
It's a very long season where there's going to be so many
changes in terms of,
uh,
development,
upgrades,
things that can really boost you forward and,
and backwards in some way.
So,
um,
yeah,
we'll just keep our heads down and keep working and,
and making sure we get the most out of one another.
We loved watching you last season,
Lando,
like,
uh,
you've always been so good to us on this podcast since we started way back when,
uh,
you know,
so many people who love this podcast love you.
So we are so delighted to be speaking to you as world champion.
Like it's so bloody cool.
We're so happy for you.
That's very kind of like,
it's still cool when you say that, you know,
even so,
um,
now that makes me very happy.
Lando Norris,
Formula One world champion.
I will keep saying it for as long as you're bored and till you get bored of it.
No,
I will never go bored of it.
You can find someone better to voice it than me.
I'm sure we'll keep,
we'll keep,
we'll keep repeating it,
but it could be someone better.
There's other people.
Get you a cool voiceover man or something.
Okay, okay.
No, it's amazing.
It's always, always a pleasure,
always good fun to come and speak to you guys.
So thank you very much.
Thank you so much, Lando.
Good luck for the season.
Thanks, Lando.
Speak to you soon.
Thank you.
All the best guys.
That was,
and we'll say it again because he likes it,
the Formula One world champion,
Lando Norris,
uh,
one person who unfortunately isn't the Formula One world champion,
but does host a Formula One podcast is Betty Glover.
Betty,
what did you think of the Formula One world champion Lando Norris?
I think I could be Formula One world champion in a different life.
Like if things went differently,
I've,
I could,
I could put a Lando in me.
It's not where we were supposed to be going with this chat,
but what,
what would have had to have gone differently?
Do we think,
what, what's,
what's the,
where,
where was the sort of sliding doors moment?
Uh,
be able to drive.
Um,
maybe.
I failed my Lego Land driving.
Test when I was five years old.
So if I'd passed that,
maybe it would be different for me.
That was the,
that was the moment Lego Land,
Blurty Lego Land.
Uh, anyway.
Yes.
Thoughts on land though.
What did you think?
He's clearly so happy still and so buzzing.
And he just seems in such a good mood,
doesn't he?
It's so nice to talk to him.
And I'm,
I'm sort of pleased that like that feeling hasn't been sort
of beaten out of him,
you know,
for the start of the new season,
he's still riding on that high.
It was really nice to see, wasn't it?
Yeah.
It was really nice to see.
Do you know what bit I really liked?
Um,
the bit about it,
like not trying to
impersonate almost other drivers.
Like Seb did it this way.
Schumacher did it this way.
Lewis did it that way.
I think we,
like,
I'm going really philosophical here,
but just stay with me for a minute.
Sometimes when you go through life,
you do naturally try and emulate others.
Don't you?
You try and compare yourself to others.
You emulate others.
You think that person is doing this,
so I should be doing that.
And it's really hard to just stay in your own path,
stay in your own lane.
I think it must be so difficult in that paddock
in Formula One to do that.
And I,
I think he should be really proud of himself
for the way he did keep
being himself and being me.
And I think he sort of epitomizes the modern athlete
in some way.
I was about to say this.
I think it's quite,
almost,
I don't know if this is correct,
but this is the way that I think about it,
is that it's quite old school,
of like older athletes would sort of have their idols
and look up to them and be like,
I really aspire to be like this person,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
Whereas nowadays,
a lot of athletes,
whether they're football players,
they're foreign drivers, blah, blah, blah, blah,
always think I just want to be myself,
like the best version of me.
It's quite a sort of new way of thinking, I guess.
I think it's a very healthy way of thinking about it.
I really do.
And I think he alluded to something
I thought during the season.
We said on this podcast,
but like he did start the season being too hard on himself
because you can go too far.
You can be too open, too hard on yourself,
beat yourself up too much.
But it was that point.
I banged on about it before of Canada
when he made the mistake of hitting Oscar
and the way he didn't beat himself up.
I think he did gain that balance of going,
look, I can put my mistakes behind me
and not beat myself up.
I can still show my emotions and be honest.
As he said, when things aren't going well,
I can still be honest about that.
And he dug in.
And I think he unlocked more on track
because of that comfortableness that he developed off track.
And I think he surprised people with the way he dug in
and unlocked more performance.
So I think it was nice that he sort of reflected that.
I think he sort of seen what we picked up on there,
which is great.
I also think, though, to give him his credit,
to be successful and to be the best at what you do,
you have got to want perfection from yourself.
And you know when he said,
I beat myself up because I know
that I could have done better there.
So it's as simple as that really, isn't it?
And if you didn't, I guess if you didn't care,
you wouldn't, you'd sort of leave the car
and whatever, go into an interview
and just, I don't know, shrug it off.
But he cares so deeply that man, doesn't he?
He really wanted that.
And do you know what I hope for him this season?
I saw, like, those of us who are old, like my good self,
and have been following it since Jensen won his championship,
Jensen Button.
Like, I think he was always a very good driver.
I think he got a better driver after he won his title.
There was such a, that's what I wanted to do.
I wanted to be world champion.
I've done it now.
The pressure was released.
The weights off your shoulders.
The weights off your shoulders, that's exactly what I'm looking for.
And then he went into the next part of his career
when McLaren won races, stacked up so well against Lewis,
just really enhanced his reputation as a Formula One driver.
Already, you can see from Landau,
he's going into the seasons feeling so confident,
so relaxed in such a good headspace.
I think that bodes well for his on track performance.
I really do.
So I think he's in a great, great shape.
And also, we've had a lot of DMs asking,
like the previous two seasons on this pod,
we've gone to Silverstone and caught up with McLaren
at the start of the season when they've had their shakedown.
Obviously, shakedown didn't happen that way this season.
That Silverstone day didn't happen.
So we had a lot of DMs going,
are you going to speak to McLaren at Silverstone again?
Well, I said that didn't really happen.
So McLaren have kindly set this up for us to talk to the boys.
And we've got Oscar coming up.
So we really appreciate it.
Thank you, McLaren.
Lovely of McLaren to let us speak to Landau
at the start of the season.
Keeping up the tradition in this difficult winter
where there's so many time demands with three tests.
So yes, thanks to McLaren and thanks to Landau for coming on.
What I will say is we're clearly a good omen for them.
Because every time we speak to them,
they have a good season really, if you can count it.
I still think of the first season when we just launched 23
where he said,
so we did 24 and 25 at Silverstone,
but I went to see him at the start of the 23 season.
It was on the Fast and the Curious Gold
that went out over the winter.
It's on the YouTube channel and on the audio feed
if you missed it, where he said,
I want to get into the place where in 2023
the aim is to get into a place
where we can look for podiums in 2024.
And then he was winning races in 2024
and winning the title in 2025.
That journey over the last few years
from McLaren has been spectacular.
So yeah, amazing, absolutely amazing.
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And also, after we've spoken to Oscar
we're going to do a bit of a Q&A
on the first, not the first test
which is not being called the first test,
on Shake Down Week.
Thank you.
Shake Down Week in Barcelona.
We're going to do a bit of a Q&A on that.
And until then, we'll bid you so long, farewell.
Enjoy all of your life that happens
until we speak to you on our next episode.
So I imagine it's going to be, you know, quite quick.
I hope so.
But listen, you never know.
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About this episode
Lando Norris shares insights on his new status as the reigning Formula One World Champion in this engaging interview. He reflects on the surreal experience of seeing the number one on his car and the emotional journey of achieving his lifelong dream. The conversation touches on his family’s support, the challenges of the racing season, and his personal life during the off-season. With humor and sincerity, Lando discusses the impact of his victory on his life and the excitement for the upcoming season.
Original notes
Lando Norris returns to The Fast And The Curious! The new World Champion join Betty & Christian to look back to his memorable end to 2025, what he got up to in the winter break, and being open in his approach to racing. Also, we find out how it feels it drive the new generation of Formula 1 car, and whether Lando thinks he can hold onto his crown.
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