Over the course of his career, there are two longstanding gripes that have regularly been used to discredit the achievements and skillset of Lando Norris, the McLaren driver from Somerset who on Sunday reached the summit of single-seater motorsport and won the Formula One world championship in Abu Dhabi.
The first is his affluent upbringing: his father, self-made entrepreneur Adam, has a net worth estimated at £200m and was ranked 610th in the 2022 Sunday Times Rich List. He founded the company Pensions Direct in 1998 and, when Hargreaves Lansdown acquired the business, he walked away with a stake of around £187m in 2008. He then retired, aged 36, and threw all of his efforts into his son’s karting endeavours.
