Lando Norris was formally topped the 2025 F1 World Champion on the FIA awards ceremony.
The McLaren driver was awarded the Drivers’ World Championship trophy for the primary time in his F1 profession at an FIA ceremony in Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent on Friday evening.
Norris obtained the trophy from FIA president Mohamed Ben Sulayem, who was re-elected for a second four-year time period.
The 26-year-old Briton clinched his first world championship with a third-place end in final Sunday’s closing race of the season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Norris gained the title by two factors over Max Verstappen, ending the Purple Bull driver’s four-year reign on the high of F1 and turning into the primary McLaren driver to win the championship since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.
Norris’ McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri, who completed third on the World Championship, 13 factors away from profitable his first world title, was additionally in attendance.
Verstappen missed the occasion as a result of sickness.
McLaren group principal Andrea Stella and CEO Zac Brown accepted the Woking group’s Constructors’ Championship trophy for the second consecutive yr.
Why did Norris have to attend for the trophy?
Norris did not get his fingers on the trophy instantly after profitable in Abu Dhabi.
A duplicate of the trophy created in 1995 lined up on the grid forward of the ultimate race of the season, however the unique was flown to Uzbekistan.
F1’s governing physique, the FIA, awards silver and gold trophies on the annual awards ceremony, with every champion’s signature engraved on the skin, together with their identify and yr of victory.
The FIA’s Worldwide Sporting Code permits opponents to request the correct to be judged, so the awarding of trophies will happen a while after the ultimate race of the season.
The FIA awards ceremony is the standard conclusion to the motorsport season.
