The British Lando Norris is the new Formula 1 world champion. At 26, the Bristol driver beat Max Verstappen, quadruple world champion in the category, by just two points, enough to be crowned best of the … season for the first time in his career. But you probably know it perfectly well because it’s been making the headlines in sports news these days. What you may not know is that Lando Norris He is a passionate collector of luxury cars: He has at least sixteen in his garage, models that he often drives on the streets of Monaco, his usual place of residence.
We know that Lando Norris, also the owner of a notable variety of luxury watches – at least two Richard Milles, including the RM67-02 McLaren, made in the colors of his team, the Papaya Team – has a collection with at least 16 different cars because he himself confirmed it a few months ago on the Quadcast podcast. “I love cars. I sold some recently, so now I have 16,” said the Englishman.
One of the cars he recently sold was the Fiat 500 Jolly Evocation from 1972a sky blue Fiat 500 that he asked to modify to give it the shape of the Jolly, a historic Fiat model from the 60s of the last century.
Fiat 500 Jolly Evocation 1972
It’s an icon of Italian luxury coastal living: convertible, with wicker seats and a relaxed, very summery aesthetic. Lando Norris’s example, with which he often drove around Monaco, was sold at the Car&Classic auction for 32,000 pounds, or just over 35,500 euros.
Nine cars from Lando Norris’ private collection
Just as special and much more expensive than the Fiat 500 Jolly are some of the cars that Lando Norris still has in his private garage after selling some models. Below we present nine of the vehicles from the private collection of the new Formula 1 world champion. They are not going to waste.
The Lamborghini Miura P400 It is the favorite of the cars owned by the British driver. He said this in the same podcast in which he admitted the number of models he has in his possession.
Your Miura is a first edition example, manufactured in the mid-1960s. The car is equipped with a 3.9L V12 engine and one of only 762 examples manufactured, hence Its estimated value exceeds 2 million euros. Norris’s, in addition, maintains one of the classic combinations of this model: exterior in Blu Julie blue paint with a matching interior in orange, precisely a tone similar to the papaya for which the McLaren team is known, with which Lando Norris won the F1 world championship. For Norris, it is “probably one of the most beautiful cars ever built”.
Like Fernando Alonso or Carlos Sainz, Lando Norris can’t help but drive a Ferrari when he’s off the track. The truth is that the Bristol driver has at least two.
The more modern of its two Prancing Horse cars is an 812 Superfast in black with red stripes, a two-seater grand touring coupe with a V12 engine capable of offering 800 hp of power.
The car, which It was presented by Ferrari at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show.replaced the F12 Berlinetta and is valued at around half a million euros on the used market depending on its condition and level of customization.
More precious is the other Ferrari that we saw Lando Norris driving in Monaco: neither more nor less than one of the 1,311 examples that exist in the world of Ferrari F40, the last car that Enzo Ferrari personally signed before his death.
The F40, developed by engineer Nicola Materazzi, is one of the best and most popular sports cars in the history of the automobile industry. Valued at one and a half million euros (at least), it marked an era with its design and performance: fast and powerful in equal parts.
Lando Norris’ F40, named in honor of the 40th anniversary of the prancing horse, is painted red by Maranello icon Ivo.
In Lando Norris’ private collection there is also room for at least two McLaren models, the factory with which he won his first F1 world championship.
On the one hand, Norris drove on occasion one of 375 examples of the McLaren P1 producedeach valued at around 2 million euros.
Black in color, it stands out for its design details such as the hinged doors (they open upwards and not outwards) and its mechanics. It is not in vain, as McLaren boasts, that the P1 “is powered by one of the most powerful hybrid propulsion systems ever installed in a car: the IPAS electrical assistance system”, which was developed “to withstand the demanding demands of continuous use on the racetrack”.
McLaren boasted in a video posted to its official profiles about the process of customizing a 765LT Spider to Lando Norris’s taste.
Only 765 units of this hypercar were manufactured, the price of which is around half a million euros.. That of the English driver, formed by the McLaren Special Operations division, is blue and stands out for the visible carbon fiber, as a decorative element.
The mechanical performance of the 765LT Spider says it all: it has a 4.0 V8 twin-turbo engine that develops 765 hp of power and 800 Nm of torque, which allows it to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.8 seconds and from 0 to 200 km/h in 7.2 seconds.
One of the most special cars in Lando Norris’s private collection is a Shelby Cobra 427, another model from the mid-60s of the last century.
Only 348 units of the original Shleby Cobra were made between 1965 and 1967: 260 as street examples and the rest for competition. the first car developed by Carrol Shelby, winning driver of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Due to its unmistakable aesthetic – convertible and painted in the case of Lando Norris’s Cobra blue with white stripes – the Cobra 427 is one of the most beloved and recognizable classic cars on the market. Its price well exceeds a million euros.
Porsche sports cars are also present in Lando Norris’ private collection. The British driver was spotted in Monaco driving a Carrera GTthe iconic model produced by the Stuttgart brand between 2003 and 2006, one of the most sought-after of all Porsches manufactured in its history.
Valued at a price close to a million and a half eurosthis convertible is famous, design aside, for its 5.7L naturally aspirated V10 engine, manual transmission and carbon fiber chassis, with a total output of 612 hp.
The model that Lando Norris has in his garage of this road car but with the soul of a racing car is dark green with a brown interior.
Lando Norris likes bottle green Porsches, just like his 911 GT3 RS, the version that offers the best features of the 992 generation of its iconic nineonce.
With a 4.0-liter six-cylinder boxer engine that reaches 525 hp of power thanks to improvements in intake and distribution, it is a sports car capable of accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.2 seconds and reaching a top speed of 296 km/h.
This Porsche model, which stands out aesthetically and aerodynamically with its characteristic rear wing, costs around 300,000 euros on the second-hand market.
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Land Rover Retro Defender 90
One of Lando Norris’ most unusual cars is a Land Rover Defender 90 fully restored by Retro Automotive. The English driver did not hesitate to acquire what is one of the most iconic models in the history of his country’s automotive industry, but with the help of the aforementioned specialist workshop based in Yorkshire, he completely transformed its essence by transforming it into a convertible.
According to the company, which produces just 15 vehicles a year, it invested 1,000 hours in the makeover of Lando Norris’s Land Rover Defender, whose interior is covered in Muirhead Egypt Blue leather. The exterior color is also striking, a gray with black details inspired by McLaren sports cars.
Its padded rear seats have been lengthened to increase the capacity of the car, which features the name of its owner, Lando Norris, printed in 3D on the metal plates located in the front cabin.
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