Lando Norris Quotes

Around 16 years old, when I was in Formula 3 and looking at potential options for the future, that's when I realized that Formula One was in the picture. But to be honest, I really just took it year by year throughout my karting years and stuff.

When you are a kid racing karts, you want to be an F1 driver.

Reaching F1 was always the ultimate goal, I suppose, ever since driving a go-kart my father had bought me for my fifth birthday.

I was fascinated by racing as a kid, but no way would I have thought I'd make it into Formula One from here, from being from Perth, racing on little local go-kart tracks, you know.

For me, I have a chance to race in F1, a chance I did not think I would have.

When I said I wanted to get back racing my dream was to be an F1 driver. I didn't know how realistic that was going to be until I'd driven again.

I started racing go karts when I was six. I just loved everything about racing. I was raised in a racing family. And I always wanted to race for a living at the highest level I could.

My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

I love the role of being the experienced driver and that is definitely the case next year - I think I am the most experienced guy in F1 next year.

When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.

I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.

In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

My goal is to be a racer, and I want to be someone who inspires Americans to watch Formula One.

Ayrton Senna was my favorite driver who I wanted to be like.

To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.

When I was 7-years-old I, discovered Go-Karts and started Karting, since then I thought to be an F1 driver, that was pretty much buried into my head.

My family is the No. 1 priority. Next is the motor-racing season.

I can't remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can't remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That's when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

After your time passes at Ferrari, you may drive for another team, but you're always a Ferrari driver.

My whole life is about racing, and of course everybody wants to do the same with your son. Being a father and doing motor racing with him goes hand in hand.

I love racing, I love racing everything really - karts, anything - so I do need to keep doing that. But the focus is on Formula One.

My first pole position is an emotional and hopefully historic moment as I want to be in F1 for many, many years.

Since I was a child I've been looking up to Formula One. Dreaming to be a Formula One driver.