Newly topped F1 World Champion Lando Norris has been named a finalist for the 2025 BBC Sports activities Persona of the Yr Award.
The McLaren driver completed third within the remaining race of the season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, beating Crimson Bull’s Max Verstappen by two factors and clinching the world title within the closest end in F1 historical past for 15 years.
Norris gained his first world championship and have become the primary McLaren driver to win the drivers’ championship since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.
With seven wins in 2025, the 26-year-old additionally turned Britain’s eleventh world champion and the thirty fifth in F1’s 75-year historical past.
Norris is on the shortlist, together with England footballers Hannah Hampton and Chloe Kelly, rugby union participant Ellie Kildan, darts participant Luke Littler and golfer Rory McIlroy.
The winner will probably be introduced after a public vote through the BBC One present on Thursday 18 December.
This yr’s BBC SPOTY will probably be held at MediaCityUK in Salford, Manchester. Will probably be hosted by Gabby Logan, Alex Scott and Claire Balding.
A seven-time world champion, Hamilton has gained the BBC SPOTY Award twice, in 2014 and 2020.
Alex Keijelski, Director of BBC Sport, stated: “This has been a wide ranging yr for sport, led by athletes who’ve delivered some historic performances, every delivering a second of pure brilliance that can outline 2025.”
“It was unimaginable to look at and I can’t wait to have a good time their achievements and see who the general public chooses because the 2025 BBC Sports activities Persona of the Yr.”
