Lando Norris finally lifts F1 trophy, crowned champion at FIA prize gala

Lando Norris has formally been topped the 2025 F1 world champion on the FIA’s prize-giving gala.

The McLaren driver was introduced with the drivers’ world championship trophy for the primary time in his F1 profession on the FIA’s awards ceremony on Friday night in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

Norris collected his trophy from FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, who has been re-elected for a second four-year time period.

The 26-year-old Briton clinched his maiden world championship by ending third on the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix final Sunday.

Norris pipped Max Verstappen to the title by two factors to finish the Purple Bull driver’s four-year reign on the high of F1, and grow to be the primary McLaren driver to win the championship since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.

Norris’s McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri, who completed third on this planet championship, 13 factors shy of successful his maiden world title, was additionally in attendance.

Verstappen missed the occasion attributable to sickness.

McLaren crew principal Andrea Stella and CEO Zak Brown collected the Woking squad’s second consecutive constructors’ championship trophy.

Why did Norris have to attend for trophy?

Norris was not capable of get his fingers on the trophy instantly after successful the championship in Abu Dhabi.

A duplicate of the trophy, which was created in 1995, was on the grid forward of the season finale, however the true factor was flown to Uzbekistan.

F1’s governing physique the FIA award the trophy, which is made up of silver and gold and has every champion’s signature engraved on the skin, alongside their identify and successful 12 months, throughout their annual awards gala.

Trophies are introduced a while after the ultimate race of the season as a result of the FIA’s Worldwide Sporting Code permits rivals to ask for a proper of assessment.

The FIA’s awards ceremony is the normal finish to the motorsport season.