Norris smashes champagne bottle and takes fireworks to the face after Brazilian GP win

Lando Norris won the 2025 Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos with a commanding 14.602-second victory over Max Verstappen, but the moment that spread fastest online came immediately after the chequered flag — on the podium, where his trademark celebration went spectacularly wrong.

Norris’s signature post-race trick involves crouching down and slamming the base of his champagne bottle against the ground to send the contents spraying upward. At Interlagos, the bottle shattered on impact. He then stepped forward and appeared to walk directly into the podium fireworks, taking a burst of pyrotechnics to the face.

The McLaren driver did not appear to be injured. He was quickly seen laughing about it with second-placed Verstappen and third-placed Isack Hadjar, the Red Bull rookie completing the podium in his own right.

The clip spread rapidly across social media. “Broke the bottle, walked into the fireworks. Not a win he’ll forget easily,” one fan wrote on Reddit. Another added: “Destroyed the bottle with a pretty majestic slam… and then put his head inside a flowing firework stream.” A third summarised it simply: “Classic Lando on the podium shenanigans.”

Norris has performed the bottle-slam since his junior racing days and explained the mechanics of it on the F1 Explains podcast last year. “Instead of shaking the bottle and then spraying it, you smash it against the ground,” he said. “The trick here is to not smash it. And the trick to that is by having a very, very thick, strong bottle.”

On this occasion, the bottle did not cooperate — but the result on track was beyond dispute. The victory was Norris’s third of the 2025 season and was achieved in changing conditions at Interlagos, with Verstappen unable to close the gap and Hadjar holding off any challenge for the final step on the podium.