Lando Norris Commits to McLaren Until 2030 — and Drives Home in a Title-Winning Car
Lando Norris has signed a new multi-year contract with McLaren that will keep him at the team until at least 2030, securing the reigning Formula One world champion for the foreseeable future. The deal was announced at a friends and families day held at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking The Guardian.
Norris's previous contract was due to run until the end of 2026. The new agreement extends that commitment by four years, binding the 2025 world champion to the team he joined as a teenager.
As part of the deal, McLaren gifted Norris one of the MCL39 cars he drove to his maiden Formula One world title last season. No financial details of the contract were released.
The 26-year-old joined McLaren's young driver programme in 2017 and made his grand prix debut with the team in 2019. Across 163 race starts, Norris has taken 13 wins for McLaren — a tally that makes him the squad's longest-serving driver The Guardian.
His 2025 campaign delivered the championship that had eluded McLaren since Lewis Hamilton's last title with the team in 2008. The MCL39 — the car now sitting in Norris's personal collection — was the machine that ended that 17-year wait.
Team principal Andrea Stella oversees the McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team, as the squad is officially known, which also competes in IndyCar and the World Endurance Championship. On the power-unit front, McLaren and Mercedes-Benz renewed their supply agreement in 2023, with Mercedes-AMG engines set to run in the back of McLaren's F1 cars from 2026 through 2030 McLaren — neatly aligning with the length of Norris's new deal.
Norris's teammate, Oscar Piastri, signed his own McLaren extension in 2024, keeping the Australian at the team through the end of 2026. Piastri joined McLaren alongside Norris, whom the team described at the time as one of Formula 1's quickest drivers McLaren.
What makes this announcement resonate beyond the contract itself is the setting and the gift. A friends and families day at the factory, a title-winning car handed to the driver who drove it — this is a team and a racer cementing a relationship that began when Norris was barely out of karting. Eight seasons in, 163 grands prix deep, and now a world champion, Norris is betting his prime years on the team that built him.
For McLaren, keeping a defending world champion off the open market is straightforward good business. For fans, it means the question of where Norris might land next — a storyline that would have dominated the 2026 silly season — is settled before it could properly begin.
