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I think that's a good place to leave it. Make sure to keep an eye out for our other post-race reaction, but let's give you one more Lando pic because this is his moment.
And who knows if he'll go back-to-back, because everything promises to look a lot different in the new era.
Lando Norris, McLaren
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Norris added on Sky: "I have to give it to Oscar, he's driven incredible. At some point he's going to get the better of me."
Lando Norris, McLaren, Oscar Piastri, McLaren
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More from an emotional Norris on Sky: "It's pretty cool. It's pretty insane. It's hard for me just to say it. I feel like I don't want to say it just yet, I'll wake up tomorrow and say it. It's been a season of ups and downs - has it been a perfect season? Absolutely not. Has it been by anybody? No.
"I'm happy I cried. Not many things in my life have made me cry, but today was one."
Lando Norris, McLaren
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It was all tears in parc ferme.
Lando Norris, McLaren, Andrea Stella, McLaren
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Sky now showing a montage of Norris' career up to now. It's mad where the time has gone!
World champion at the age of 26 in his seventh season of F1.
This is a very sweet interview with Lando's mum on Sky. Speaks of watching her grandchild in the Nativity play on Tuesday before flying to Abu Dhabi on Thursday. Mentions of Lando being in the garden driving the tractor as a kid, before Hamilton is caught in the media pen congratulating Norris.
Lando Norris, McLaren
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Lando's mum on Sky Sports: "Emotionally drained, but very happy."
He'll be looking at a much bigger trophy soon...
Lando Norris, McLaren
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It's his moment.
Lando Norris, McLaren
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The Stella-Brown bromance!
Andrea Stella, McLaren, Zak Brown, McLaren
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Carlos Sainz: "Very happy for him. I think he's a great F1 driver. I think unbelievably fast.
"But with his particular way of going about life and things, as much as he's got criticised a lot during the last few years for being how he is, he's world champion and everyone can keep dreaming about being F1 world champion while he goes about his own way and does things his own way.
"So I'm extremely happy for him because he must have felt a lot of pressure over the last few weekends and he managed to pull it off."
Lando Norris, McLaren, Oscar Piastri, McLaren, Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing
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It's times like this where pictures speak a thousand words
Lando Norris, McLaren
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Brown going over to man he once compared to a villain from a horror film...
Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, Zak Brown, McLaren
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Lando Norris, McLaren, Oscar Piastri, McLaren
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Lando and his bosses.
Lando Norris, McLaren, Andrea Stella, McLaren, Zak Brown, McLaren
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The Norris family.
Lando Norris, McLaren
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Zak Brown: "If you beat Max and Red Bull, you've done a great job."
He then adds that Piastri is a "future world champion".
Let's hear more from Lando.
"It's incredible. Pretty surreal. I dreamed of this for a long, long time - everyone does - a lot goes into a season like this. A lot of ups, a lot of downs, but none of that matters if you try to come out on top. The last seven, eight years I've been with McLaren, the last 17, 18 years of my life I've been chasing this dream.
"My best performances this year came when I needed them the most."
The moment Lando crossed the line to become champion.
Lando Norris, McLaren
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But queue the champagne, as Norris does his trademark celebration as a world champion for the first time!
Piastri lifts the runner-up trophy on the podium. It does look like he's trying to put on a brave face - a penny for his thoughts etc.
PR email of the day, dropped almost the second the grand prix finished. A street in Somerset, Lando's home county, will be named in his honour. It's almost like they had that planned and ready to go!
Lifts his head up to the sky as a Formula 1 world champion...
Lando Norris, McLaren
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Here comes the podium as world champion Lando Norris is first to greet the steps!
The second Autosport young driver winner to win the F1 world championship after Jenson Button...
Norris: "I've not cried in a while. DIdn't think I'd cry but I did. It's a long journey, a long journey."
Speaking of the championship, here is how the top three finishes:
1. Lando Norris - 423 points
2. Max Verstappen - 421 points
3. Oscar Piastri - 410 points
It's hugmania on that pit straight. Zak, Sainz, Russell, mechanics, family, all wanting a bit of Lando.
But the cameras did catch a nice moment when Norris' mum headed over to Piastri to console the other McLaren driver, who finishes this year third in the championship.
As is customary in Abu Dhabi, Norris is now doing doughnuts down the start-finish straight...
Verstappen: "I'm definitely not disappointed. I'm proud of everyone, we never give up."
A tearful Norris: "I love you guys, thanks for everything - you deserve it. I love you mum, I love you dad."
Camera pans straight to the McLaren garage, where Lando's mum is crying. These moments are the ones to savour...
LANDO NORRIS IS THE 2025 FORMULA 1 WORLD CHAMPION
By: Ed Hardy
