McLaren’s Lando Norris has fared well at Silverstone in recent years and will now head home to the 2025 British Grand Prix in a confident mood after winning the Austrian GP.

The 25-year-old got on the rostrum in Northamptonshire on each of his last two visits to the birthplace of Formula 1. Norris achieved his maiden podium on home soil with second place in the 2023 British GP, and returned to the rostrum at Silverstone in 2024 after earning third.

Now, Norris will have his sights set on taking his first home win this Sunday after conquering the Red Bull Ring last Sunday. The Bristol-born driver converted his third pole position of the 2025 F1 season thus far into his third win of the term after fending off Oscar Piastri in Styria.

The McLaren teammates are now even only 15 points apart in the F1 drivers’ championship ahead of round 12 at Silverstone, with Piastri seeing his lead get trimmed as Norris won the Austrian GP from pole. Piastri has finished fourth in his two British GP appearances thus far.

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Andrea Stella tells Lando Norris the ‘most important thing’ is McLaren win the British GP

McLaren chief Andrea Stella is ‘absolutely’ confident that Norris can win the British GP and, in doing so, win back-to-back Grands Prix in the same season for the first time. The 25-year-old’s sole back-to-back wins so far came in the final race of 2024 and the first race of 2025.

Yet while Stella sees four reasons why Norris can win at Silverstone this weekend, the Briton winning his and the team’s home race is not the Woking outfit’s priority. Instead, Stella adds that the ‘most important thing’ on Sunday will be that a McLaren driver wins the British GP.

“In terms of Lando being able to do that, yes, of course,” Stella has told the Daily Mail about Norris’ chances of claiming back-to-back wins. “There is absolutely no reason why not given the talent, the quality, the race craft and even the trajectory Lando is on.

“I am so very proud of Lando and how everyone handled the situation in Canada and the fact we came through it more united and stronger. But the most important thing at Silverstone is back-to-back victories for McLaren.”

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McLaren have not won the British GP since Lewis Hamilton stunned Silverstone in 2008 with one of his greatest-ever victories. The Stevenage-born star showed his sheer class in horrid wet conditions to win from fourth on the grid by 68.577s over BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld.

Norris and Piastri will now hope that they can end McLaren’s 17-year wait for a home win at Silverstone this Sunday, which would mark the Woking natives’ 15th all-time British GP win. Only Ferrari with 18 British GP victories have won the Grand Prix more often than McLaren.

A home victory for Norris would also see the Bristol native bag his eighth career win after he drew level with Piastri as a seven-time Grand Prix winner at the Austrian GP. Piastri won five of his seven Grand Prix victories to date through the first nine rounds of the 2025 F1 season.