World champion Norris launches LN4 Fusion team and fully-funded young driver programme

Lando Norris has moved beyond the cockpit to establish his own racing organisation, launching LN4 Fusion and the LN4 Legacy Programme on Tuesday — a dual venture designed to develop the next generation of single-seater talent across Europe’s junior ladder from 2027.

The McLaren driver joined forces with British karting team Fusion Motorsport to create LN4 Fusion, which will compete in Formula 3 and Formula 4 next year and intends to acquire an F2 entry. Former Prema team principal Rene Rosin has come on board as a consultant and will serve as team principal for the outfit’s European racing activities, based in Veneto, Italy. Ex-Prema technical chief Guillaume Capietto joins as racing director, Dan Richards takes the CEO role, and long-time Fusion chief Dan Hazlewood will oversee the team’s British F4 entry and test programme from its Cambridgeshire base.

Alongside the race team, Norris has established the LN4 Legacy Programme — a fully-funded young driver initiative backed personally by the 26-year-old. The programme is designed to support talented drivers from grassroots karting through the FIA’s single-seater pyramid, with former Alpine sporting director Julian Rouse appointed to lead it.

“I’ve been really lucky to have some amazing people around me throughout my career, and I know that getting to Formula 1 takes so much more than just talent,” Norris said. “You need the right people around you, the right support and the right opportunities at the right time. That’s what these two projects are all about.”

He added that LN4 Fusion is intended to “compete with the best in junior motorsport” while the Legacy Programme is focused on giving drivers “opportunities they might not otherwise have.”

The announcement comes shortly after Norris signed a contract extension with McLaren that keeps him at the Woking-based team until at least 2030, cementing his long-term future in F1 while simultaneously building a presence off the grid.

F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali welcomed the move, describing Norris’s involvement as “an incredible statement on how much the pyramid of Formula 3 and Formula 2 is crucial to the future of Formula 1.” Domenicali said the investment would help build “new drivers, engineers, mechanics, and a tradition that will be followed by motorsport lovers.”

Norris clinched his maiden F1 world championship last season, becoming one of the sport’s most marketable figures. His decision to channel resources into junior motorsport infrastructure reflects a growing trend of current and former drivers investing in the pathways that shaped their own careers.