10 Things F1 Driver Lando Norris Can't Live Without | GQ Sports

hello GQ I'm London Norris and these are my 10 Essentials my race helmet I mean it's not something I would probably carry with me day to day but it's something that is just very important in my life because it protects my life every weekend that I go racing so this is me this is my design this is one of the only thing is really in Formula One in racing that the driver gets to pretty much have complete control of and each driver shows them personality colors whatever it is now growing up I was a massive fan of Valentino Rossi even though he's a Moto GP and motorbikes and got nothing to do with car racing I got into that before I got into Formula One so these colors were always inspired by him since I was a very young age but I've had to try and make it more me rather than just a copy of him because pretty much how I started I'll start with my logo it's my logo here on the side l n stands for my name but what a lot of people don't realize is that I'm also number four like here British flag Belgian flag from my dad's side my mom's from Belgium not many people know that either yeah not many people realize that if you look inside the L in the end uh it's number four I've already had number four since I joined Formula One nothing else really meant anything to me before like I changed numbers a lot of times because I had to for various reasons I'm all because I couldn't pick the numbers that I wanted to so I had to kind of come up with something new when I came into formula one and number four was was that but the yellow and the blue I kind of colors I've had for many years now especially the fluorescent yellow that's kind of my color it's something I've had since I I started cartoon stands out it's bright it looks bold there's a lot of people who have kind of have dull boring-ish helmets and you can't see from the outside very well exactly who it is but with this it's very easy I just hope I'm going quick while people are looking at me not when I'm in the gravel or something as you can see with this it's a little bit inspired by the sun again or from valencino Rossi Valentino has uh the Sun and the Moon on the helmet it's a little bit like the Sun but it's changed I've changed a little bit to kind of go all the way more around the helmet rather than look like just the Sun but it's still that resemblance to him which uh which I always want to keep because he's the guy that got me into racing in the first place tear-offs gets dirty on track flies dirt dust whatever it is uh she's got all the tear offs to rip off and renew have Clear Vision I've also got Ellen cart Ellen cart's my go-kart which um I finally released just uh last year I think I love cutting karting is some of the most fun times you ever have in racing growing up between the ages of 8 to 12 8 to 13. there's some of the coolest times and most memorable so I kind of still want to be involved in it until have something involved in it and I still love doing it every now and then when I can together with otk group I'm with Tony Carr we managed to come up with my own cart my own um little thing to keep in cutting which I get in similar colors to this [Music] the golf ball luckily I've got the Titleist number four here Pro V1 of course because I definitely only ever use profit once but I'm a massive golfing nut I would say there's few people in the world who are addicted to golf as much as me and I'm pretty sure that's a fact but ever I go I always got golf Boys in my bag because you never know when you're gonna have to Tee It Up and hit one plus to get you some lovely courses around the world so I always got to travel with my golf balls with my golf clubs they go everywhere with me played quite a few times now with polter with Justin Rose Louise Burger jochen Neiman I think that's how you say it and I played with Zac Brown he's a very talented golfer so a privilege to get to golf with him every now and then I got another Pro-Am coming up in Wentworth very soon so I need to get my practice in so I'm actually going straight after this interview for some more golf [Music] my Tumi bags it's not it's specifically just my rucksack but I myself am a Tumi partner I've got everything possible from to me including golf bags but rucksack rucksack I go everywhere with I've even got the small case the big case I got a shoe case as well every bag you can think of from to me I travel a lot it makes my life very easy but I also travel heavy not light in any way so I have a lot of bags when I travel but I got a few of the different rucksacks like this one this is the McLaren one I can fit everything in my tablet's phone whatever it is golf balls books that I never read but I just always carry with me just to look smart put on the table every now and then rucksack foreign [Music] so next item my watch this is my rigid Mill which is a beautiful beautiful design a perk of the job this is one I get given when working here in McLaren I've got a few different ones now over the years some some different ones but this is my absolute favorite very thin extremely lightweight almost don't even feel like you're carrying it ever but I can drive in it I can play golf in it um you can do a sports exercise whatever in it and it looks beautiful when it's not my got my greasy marks on it original watch uh looks cool I have to wear it everywhere um so thanks Richard Mille [Music] the sunglasses I've really I don't have bad eyes I have good eyes but I struggle seeing when there's too much sun and like it strains my eyes too much so I have to wear sunglasses in a lot of places even inside sometimes when there's too much light not because I think I'm cool because I wear sunglasses inside but literally because there's a lot of light and my eyes start going really funny sometimes but these uh my very first pair of sunglasses and not my first ever but me as a person ellen04 there are sun Gods um our partner here at McLaren I basically designed all of this and then they basically I copied what I said they got a little engraving here these have to go around with me everywhere inside out I got a lot of pairs of these so I basically got one in every single room when I go to the racetrack there's some sunnies waiting for me next up my hoodie I am a hurdy Guru this specific one this is my quadrant one quadrant is my Esports team this was from my latest collection the off-road collection which looked freaking awesome this is the black hoodie there's loads of other ones two things with the hoodies one I always wear hoodies I'm hoodie guys so whenever I'm traveling when I'm here at McLaren I wear hoodies I just find them a lot more comfortable they suit me a lot more plus I got a long neck so it kind of hides my long neck a little bit actually even when I joined McLaren there was no hoodies that we were allowed to wear and um I tried and tried and finally I got the clothing team to make me wear a hoodie so I actually had the track you'll see me in the hoodie now which I don't think McLaren I've ever had until I rocked up so I'm proud to say I changed the team here for the good and we can now wear hoodies my tablet I travel a lot I spend a lot of times in planes in cars going around going different countries plus I grew up on these things playing games whatever in school whatever but uh watch movies can work emails although I don't do that too often it's always generally always on the tablet headphones these are my Clips McLaren headphones lovely cool designs we got here it's a little bit like a tire race Tire intermediate again one of our partners here McLaren I always got to travel with them flying away so much in a car so much always listen to music or watching movies Netflix whatever it is I Gotta Wear headphones the one guy I know more than anyone is is Daniel I think he knows the lyrics to pretty much every song ever created I would taste of music's kind of similar he's not a guy who goes for like super upbeat stuff too much he goes for more like chilled Charlie stew Harvey gun just more chill stuff relaxing stuff like we're on flights that's the kind of stuff but I think I know more than anyone else along with Carlos but Carlos distance I don't know what he listens but uh yeah Daniel's got a good taste I'll give him that [Music] because I'm such a big gamer and such a big nerd I take my gaming stuff with me everywhere I go it's rare that I use a controller because I'm a mouse and keyboard kind of player now that disappoints a lot of people people but I grew up only ever really using a steering wheel rather than ever a controller so with racing and everything growing up on the PlayStation I always use a steering wheel and pedals and whatever so I'm actually pretty shocking with a controller when it comes to any game whether it's Call of Duty or FIFA all of that stuff I love playing those games whenever I travel I play with my friends whenever I'm away only game that I currently play ic2 Halo I got a Halo team in quadrant and this is actually our quadrant controller that we just released with scuff so you want to go and get one of these you can but Halo and escape from tarkov those are the two games I can only play because when I get into a game that's basically it for like six months and then I'll eventually move on to another game quadrant was still quite new the only actual Esports team that I have inside of it is the Halo team who are extremely good they came out to the French Grand Prix with me a few weeks ago they're kind of starting off the Esports gaming side of it all but it's expanding it's getting bigger which is uh which is awesome and I love all of that stuff all the gaming side of life [Music] and if you use it properly like the simulator helped me a lot growing up as a kid between the age of probably I mean since I started you know playing Gran Turismo uh like against my dad when I was like four years old probably I think that started a lot of my love for racing and also got my eye in and I could learn how to drive a car from a very early age and then you buy the similar you know at the steering wheel you get the pedals all of that stuff that helps you for sure you learn tracks you learn how to drive different cars and that helped me through my whole career especially when you get into the professional racing simulators then it'll help you a lot [Music] this one massive perk of the job so the next item is my McLaren car key big Clerk of being part of McLaren is I get to drive a McLaren so since my first day here I've been able to drive some very nice cars McLaren GT which fits my golf club straight in the back literally designed to fit some golf clubs in I drive that everywhere but I think it's awesome McLaren are a team not only that I watched since I was young and supported and I was much a fan of but you know whenever you're on the street and you see a McLaren pass when you're a kid you think one day I want to be able to or you know you wish to drive one of those cars so that wish finally came true and now I get to drive one every week which is uh which is pretty awesome so uh pretty awesome perk of the job McLaren cocky alrighty so thank you GQ those are my 10 Essentials hope you like them if you have any questions make sure to fire them into the comment box below and see you soon thank you [Music]

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Length: 11min 23sec (683 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 17 2022