Lando Norris Sets McLaren Record With 156 Starts as Team Marks 1,000th Grand Prix
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jun 5
Lando Norris Sets McLaren Record With 156 Starts as Team Marks 1,000th Grand Prix
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jun 5
Summary
Lando Norris will make his 156th start for McLaren in Monaco, moving past David Coulthard's team record of 150.
The milestone lands on a landmark weekend for McLaren, which is celebrating its 1,000th Formula 1 grand prix and 60 years since its first race in Monte Carlo in 1966.
Norris said he was "very" proud of the mark, framing it as part of McLaren's rise from recent struggles to its current front-running position.
McLaren enters the weekend with deep history behind the celebration — 203 race wins, 13 drivers' titles and 10 constructors' championships.
Monaco also carries recent significance for Norris and the team: he won the race there for the first time last year, and he and Oscar Piastri will run a one-off livery for the occasion.