Lando Norris

Road to World Champion

By Nate Saunders

Lando Norris: Road to World Champion tells the incredible story of the 2025 championship campaign and what it takes to win. Featuring a race-by-race rundown alongside over 100 stunning full-colour photographs.

Lando Norris: Road to World Champion charts his extraordinary rise to become motorsport’s 2025 standout star. From a shy, gaming-obsessed teenager to Britain’s newest Formula One World Champion, Norris’ journey is anything but straightforward. Despite starting out as an early fan favourite at McLaren – funny, relatable and refreshingly vulnerable – questions persisted about whether he had the ruthlessness required to reach the sport’s summit.

Here, Formula One journalist Nate Saunders of ESPN — a leading global multiplatform sports brand — reveals that Norris’s story is ultimately one of perseverance and authenticity. The dramatic 2025 title fight, against teammate Oscar Piastri and the formidable Max Verstappen, pushed him harder than ever and went down to the last second, but in the pressure cooker of Abu Dhabi he proved his mettle.

In a full-colour celebration featuring over 100 photographs, Nate Saunders traces Lando’s journey to win the title and offers insider access to how he rewrote the script for what a champion can look like. This is the race-by-race story of a young man who faced his fears, silenced the doubters and won the biggest prize in motorsport – his way.

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$50.00 RRP
ISBN
9781789299649
Publish date
30 June 2026
Format
Hardback
Page count
224
Dimensions
246 x 189 x 20 mm

About the author

Nate Saunders has covered Formula 1 for ESPN since 2014, reporting from more than 100 grands prix and witnessing many of the defining moments of the modern era first-hand. He followed the 2025 season race by race, covering its drama, missteps and momentum swings all the way to the title decider in Abu Dhabi. Saunders is the author of Forza Ferrari: How F1’s Most Famous Team Can Win Again and Daniel Ricciardo: In Pursuit of Greatness, and has been a regular voice on ESPN’s Unlapped podcast and The Pad-Hoc with Chris Medland and Lawrence Barretto.

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