Topps releases ultra-rare Norris card featuring Coca-Cola suit patch after viral F1 row

Topps has revealed one of its rarest Lando Norris trading cards: a signed 2024 Dynasty Formula 1 piece graded PSA Gem Mint 10, featuring two fabric swatches cut directly from Norris’s McLaren race suit — one of them taken from the Coca-Cola logo on the sleeve.

The card belongs to the Single Driver Dual Relic Autograph set, in which two windows of red fabric sit beneath Norris’s signature. The left-hand piece clearly shows part of the white Coca-Cola script. PSA, the American grading company, sealed it in a plastic case carrying its highest possible grade. The Topps Racing account shared a short video of the card on Instagram on Friday, captioning it: “This Lando Norris patch auto goes CRAZY!”

Fans were quick to connect the dots. “Where did they get his race suit?” asked one commenter. “Omg this is so dope,” wrote another, while a third joked: “Hahaha Coca-Cola wants to come back to Spain and see the chaos that erupted over the Coca-Cola bottle. Coca-Cola, become a sponsor of LN4 Fusion!”

The reference is to a moment that went viral after the Spanish Grand Prix at the new Madring Circuit. Norris was apparently asked to put down the Coca-Cola he was drinking in the cooldown room, but refused. “I just did a race, so I’m allowed to drink what I would like. Thank you so much,” he said at the time. The incident spread rapidly online because PepsiCo, a Coca-Cola rival, is an official Formula 1 partner.

Norris addressed the situation further when speaking to media in Austin, Texas. “No, no one’s ever said anything to me since. I feel like we should be allowed to drink whatever we want after a race, especially when you’re in it for two hours. It’s been some of the hottest races, cars are also difficult to drive, so I feel like I should be allowed to drink what I want.”

He added that the fallout appeared to land more heavily on the McLaren team than on him personally. “The team might have been told off more than I was. And therefore we have little holders to put our drinks in, so it’s unbranded, but I’m allowed to drink whatever I can. It’s just the branding issues that they have. But this is not something I need to be thinking of — it’s some stuff I’m sure that was cleared up between other people.”

Dynasty is the most expensive F1 product in the Topps range. Each box contains a single encased autograph-and-relic card, with every copy numbered to 10 or fewer. When the 2024 edition went on sale in February 2025, a box was priced at $1,099.99. The base version of this Norris card is limited to 10 copies, with rarer red, black and gold parallels sitting above it in the hierarchy.