McLaren has handed an extended contract to teenage driver Lando Norris after a stellar start to his rookie Formula One season.
Norris, 19, stepped up to the team this year to form an all-new line-up with Carlos Sainz. The Englishman joined McLaren in a development role in 2017 following an impressive start to his junior career.
Together with Sainz he has helped McLaren's surge up the midfield order this season -- after several difficult years, the team has shown signs of progress since the start of 2019 and is currently a comfortable fourth in the championship. At the Austrian Grand Prix, Norris finished sixth -- equaling his best result of the year so far as he finished there in Bahrain, which was his second race in F1.