Lando Norris does not even try to suppress a playful laugh of self-recognition as he considers the proposition that, unlikely as it may seem, one of Formula One’s most striking talents shares a common trait with Springfield’s beer-drinking, couch jockey and all-round pop-culture hero, Homer Simpson.
“I am a big overthinker, I do think a lot about different scenarios good and bad, and I am absolutely critical of myself,” Norris says. So when it’s put to him that this sounds like the comical internal arguments Homer has with his own brain, the 24-year-old hoots in acknowledgment.
