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F1 Beyond The Grid

30 Days of BTG – Day 4: Lando Norris’ karting hero

F1 Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

For Day 4 of our pre-season build-up, the origins of a current F1 star. Lando Norris, driver of car number 4, takes Tom Clarkson back to the childhood moment he decided to race cars instead of bikes. In the clip from 2019 Lando also remembers admiring a young driver named George who he used to race in go-karts. Whatever happened to him? Tom’s choosing his favourite clips from the BTG archive ahead of Season 6 on March 1st. Hit the follow button to join in.

For Lando’s first Beyond The Grid interview from 2019, head here

Or listen here for his second appearance when he talked about his fans and hunting his first F1 win 

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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0:10.4

or when a *** doesn't understand how a *** roundabout works.

0:14.4

That's why we developed a collision sensor system, which detects risks and automatically breaks.

0:20.7

And to keep all family road trips, family friendly, it's included as standard with the Honda CRV hybrid.

0:27.7

Honda, the power of dreams.

0:34.0

Welcome back to 30 days of F1 Beyond the Grid, a pre-season series featuring the best bits of

0:40.3

the Beyond the Grid archive. I'm Tom Clarkson and on day 4 it's the driver of car number 4,

0:46.4

McLaren's Landon Norris. The Young Brit is one of the most popular drivers in Formula 1 and one

0:52.0

of the most exciting to follow, because we haven't seen the very best of him yet. He scored podiums,

0:58.3

qualified on pole position and come so close to a first victory. Could 2023 be the year he gets that

1:05.8

win? I love talking to Landon, he's been on the show twice and the clip I've chosen is from

1:11.1

his first visit at the start of the 2020 season. We went right back to the beginning of his racing

1:17.1

career, how he started, memories of his first drive in a go-kart, plus a young guy he remembers

1:22.6

racing back then, someone called George, I wonder what happened to him. But first,

1:27.8

a land of explains how when he started racing, it wasn't on four wheels, it was on two.

1:34.1

So I started on bikes, and I had a little motor cross Yamaha when I was much younger,

1:40.1

I still got it now, I actually can't start it for some reason. I started on doing that and I

1:48.6

loved it, I spent as much time doing that as I could, but I had one little crash, I mean,

1:56.1

little crash, it felt huge crash. I just tried doing this little jump and I had no idea what

2:02.0

I was doing. I went over and landed on the front wheel and went over the bike landed on me,

2:07.0

and I still, six, six years old, seven years old scared me, didn't want to do it. I kind of stopped

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