Lando Norris didn’t just close out a season on Sunday night in Abu Dhabi — he closed the loop on a promise he’d been grinding toward since he first climbed into a kart. The 26-year-old Brit secured his first Formula 1 World Championship with a measured, almost surgical third-place finish, enough to hold off Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri and carve his name into the record as Britain’s 11th F1 champion.
It wasn’t a victory lap so much as a coronation carried out at full throttle. Norris came into Yas Marina with a 12-point cushion and the knowledge that a podium would seal the deal. No theatrics, no bravado — just the kind of precision drive McLaren has been trying to engineer since their last title run with Lewis Hamilton in 2008.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc pressed late, Red Bull threw what they could across his bow, but the arithmetic never cracked. Norris kept the car, the pressure, and the moment under control.
When the job was done, the emotion finally bled through. Over team radio he choked out a simple, unvarnished “I love you guys. We did it.” And then he climbed out of the cockpit and into the kind of scene that hijacks the internet before the rubber cools: a tight embrace and a kiss with his girlfriend, Portuguese model Magui Corceiro, who has been a fixture in his garage during the back half of the season.
The moment hit the feeds instantly — the champion and the woman who’s been in the frame all year, locked together as the sport reset around them.
Their relationship, on-again since the start of the season, has been its own subplot in the paddock. Corceiro’s presence drew attention, applause, criticism — the usual cocktail that swirls around anyone too close to the front of the grid. But the pair looked unbothered as they shared the kind of quiet, personal victory that no stopwatch can measure.
For McLaren, this title is a resurgence. For Norris, it’s the end of a long, uneven climb through technical failures, near misses, and weekends that tested every inch of resolve. And as the celebrations spilled into the Abu Dhabi night, one thing was clear: the championship belonged to him, and the moment — the kiss, the release, the arrival — belonged to the whole sporting world watching.
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Last modified: December 8, 2025
