Lando Norris signs new long-term McLaren F1 deal to end of 2030 with option for further extension

Lando Norris has signed a new long-term contract extension with McLaren that will keep him with the Formula 1 team until at least the end of 2030.

Norris, 26, announced the news at McLaren’s annual family and friends open day on Saturday morning at its factory in Woking, UK, committing his future to the team with which he has spent his entire F1 career.

The British driver won his first F1 world title last year, ending McLaren’s 17-year wait for a drivers’ championship after beating Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by two points in the final standings.

Although Norris was still under contract at McLaren for next year, having signed his most recent long-term deal in early 2024, the announcement locks him in at the team for at least another four years.

Beyond the initial commitment that runs to the end of the 2030 season, McLaren also stated there was a multi-year option to extend beyond that date as part of the agreement.

The team also revealed as part of the contract announcement that Norris will be gifted his championship-winning MCL39 car from the 2025 season.

“McLaren is my home, and I’m very pleased to be signing a new contract to keep me with the team until at least 2030,” Norris said in a statement.

“When I started this journey nine years ago, I was clear about the goals I wanted to achieve: to get McLaren back to the front and to win championships. We’ve achieved that goal, but we want more, we want to keep on winning, and we know as a team that we’re capable of achieving it.”

Norris joined McLaren’s young driver academy in 2017 before joining its F1 line-up two years later, making his grand prix debut at the age of 19.

He scored his first F1 race win at Miami in 2024 before helping McLaren win that year’s constructors’ championship, the team’s first in 26 years, and finishing as runner-up to Verstappen in the drivers’ standings.

2025 brought Norris seven victories en route to last year’s drivers’ title, overcoming both Verstappen and McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri to clinch the championship at the season finale in Abu Dhabi.

Norris lies fourth in this year’s drivers’ standings, and has won the last two races in Hungary and the Netherlands.

A deal worthy of a world champion

Analysis by Luke Smith, Senior Writer, F1

There’s never been any doubt over Norris’s future with McLaren. As he said, the team is his home. It’s all he’s known in F1, and, importantly, has led him to realize his life dream of becoming world champion.

But this deal is a big show of faith from both Norris and McLaren in one another, keeping them together for at least another four years with an option to extend beyond that. Norris clearly views it as the place to be and McLaren has total confidence in him continuing to progress.

After his Dutch Grand Prix win last weekend, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said Norris was getting “stronger and stronger race by race,” and consistently producing performances befitting a world champion.

Norris ended McLaren’s 17-year wait for a drivers’ world champion (Andrej Isakovic/AFP via Getty Images)

The new contract also takes Norris out of any conversation around driver market movements in the coming years. Verstappen, who was linked with McLaren earlier this year, announced his own extension through to 2030 at Red Bull at the Dutch Grand Prix, putting the two drivers in sync.

It also serves as further stability for the setup at McLaren that has evolved the team into a back-to-back constructors’ championship winner. Stella and McLaren Racing’s CEO, Zak Brown, also have long-term deals in place, while Piastri’s latest multi-year deal was signed in early 2025 and the Australian has professed faith in realizing his dream of also becoming a world champion at McLaren.

Although the financial particulars of the contract won’t be revealed, it’s likely Norris’s status as a world champion has been reflected in his extended deal. The gifting of his McLaren car from last year is significant, given most teams tend to retain ownership of their models from each year.

Norris may not have had the car to challenge for the world championship from the very first race this year, the early part of the season instead being dominated by Mercedes, but his performances through 2026 have arguably been even better than last year.

There was never any reason for him to consider a move away from McLaren. But now Norris has the contract, commitment and, importantly, stability all set for the next chapter of his career.