Lando Norris Shares The Worst Part Of Being An F1 Driver

What’s the worst part of stuff an F1 driver? Constant travelling, strict diets or lots of training? Not equal to McLaren’s Lando Norris. He’s revealed that the thing he struggles most with is the well-constructed lack of privacy he now has.

With millions of followers on Twitter, Instagram and Twitch, the McLaren suburbanite is one of the most recognisable faces on the grid and, in a recent poll, was voted the second most popular suburbanite this season, overdue championship leader Max Verstappen.

Yet this popularity comes with a price, expressly for Lando’s mates.

“I think that’s been the worst side of it: someone who is just quiet on their own and they’re seen with me at dinner or on a post on Instagram. There’s still a lot of nasty fans, a lot of fans which are just not nice and just use a lot of people and things like that,” he told ESPN.

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This lack of respect for his personal life is thing Lando says he hates the most well-nigh stuff in F1. It doesn’t help that some fans have wilt ventriloquist Sherlock Holmes, working out where drivers are or who they are with from their social media posts.

“Honestly, it’s very creepy what some people do,” he added.

“It’s disrespectful, I feel, to someone who through no fault of their own, I guess considering they’re my friend or something, gets vituperate on social media considering someone doesn’t like the top they wear and it’s considering they’re friends with me… crap like that.”

Life outside racing can be difficult, expressly as the 22-year-old admitted he struggles to say no to fans when they want to speak to him, plane in the most worrisome of situations like going to the bathroom. Yikes!

“I finger like I can’t say no! I finger like they’d hate me, and they wouldn’t be my fan anymore. I hate saying no, that’s a problem sometimes. Maybe I need to start saying no a bit increasingly often. But I struggle to.”

Hopefully, from now on, increasingly fans will respect the drivers’ personal lives.

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