Norris signs through 2030 and takes the 2025 McLaren as part of the deal

Lando Norris told a factory open day in Woking on Saturday that he will stay at McLaren until at least the end of 2030. The team added a multi-year option beyond that date. It also confirmed that he will be given the MCL39 he drove to the 2025 drivers' title.

Norris is 26. He has driven every Formula 1 race of his career in papaya, 163 grands prix and counting, a team record. He joined the junior programme at 17 and made his debut in 2019. His last long-term paper, signed early in 2024, was understood to run through 2027. Saturday's announcement therefore locks four extra seasons on top of what was already written.

"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," he said in the team's 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."

He did not shop the grid

Speaking to BBC Sport, Norris said other teams had shown interest and that he "didn't even have a look." He called the choice "quite an easy yes" and "probably one of the easiest decisions I've made since being in Formula 1." He said he wants to finish his career at the same team. Oscar Piastri, his teammate, signed his own multi-year extension in March 2025. Zak Brown and Andrea Stella have also committed longer terms in the past two seasons.

The Independent reported the package at about £120 million, or up to £30 million a season. Norris said the figure sits below what Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are paid. Hamilton's Ferrari deal has been reported near $60 million a year. Norris said he thinks the gap should close if he keeps winning, and that he is working on it.

A title last year, a deficit this year

Norris won the 2025 championship by two points over Verstappen. It was McLaren's first drivers' title since Hamilton in 2008 and Britain's eleventh in the world championship. The MCL39 took 13 race wins in that season. Under the 2026 regulations the team started slower. Norris has now won the last two races, at the Hungaroring and at Zandvoort, and sits fourth in the standings, 83 points behind Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli with 11 rounds still on the calendar. The Italian Grand Prix at Monza is next, 4 to 6 September.

The gifted car is a concrete clause, not a souvenir line. Title-winning chassis usually stay with the team or go to a museum. Handing Norris the 2025 machine folds a physical piece of that season into the contract and gives him an asset that other drivers in the same garage will not receive on the same terms.

What the date actually buys

By 2030 Norris will have spent at least twelve seasons at McLaren. The option beyond that date is the part that matters for the next round of talks. It lets the team keep him without reopening the whole file in 2029, and it lets him stay without testing the market if the car is still a winner. If the car is not, both sides will have a documented off-ramp.

Stella said the extension gives the team "important continuity" after Norris grew up inside the junior programme and then delivered the first drivers' title in 17 years. Continuity is the product McLaren is selling to sponsors and to the factory staff who packed the open day. The next test is whether the 2026 car can cut the 83-point gap before the season runs out, and whether the 2027 regulations keep the same pairing in front.