Formula 1 ace Lando Norris was caught on video swearing at a fan after they teased him about his track record at the Australian GP. The 24 year old racing star didn’t take kindly to a cheeky comment from someone in Melbourne and showed them what he thought with a quick hand gesture.

Lando has been making waves in the world of racing, climbing up from the McLaren Young Driver Program to become a real star. He shone bright in Formula 2 with Carlin in 2018, grabbing second place, and then he made it big by joining the F1 grid.

He started racing for McLaren alongside Carlos Sainz Jr six years ago and got his first big cheer when he came third at the Austrian Grand Prix in 2020. Since then, he’s been on the podium 13 more times, but he’s never won an F1 race, even though he’s been so close.

At the Melbourne race, he zoomed into third place again, but couldn’t get past Sainz and Charles Leclerc to win. This made one fan at the track tease him by shouting: “When are you gonna win a race, Lando?”

Norris was clearly upset by the harsh words from a spectator who filmed the incident, and responded by showing him the middle finger. Essentially telling the negative fan to “f*** off”, he didn’t seem pleased with the comment as he left the area with his team.

Fans of the British driver quickly jumped to his defence on social media after seeing the video of Norris responding to the bold individual with his rude gesture. One McLaren fan commented after watching the clip: “He has more than podiums than many on the grid older than him – ok he hasn’t got his first win but it’s coming and his answer was brilliant.”

Despite the unpleasant incident, Norris seemed upbeat after the race, praising the efforts of his McLaren team over the weekend. He expressed his gratitude, saying: “I think our pace has been good all weekend. We put things together very nicely.”

“I didn’t expect probably us to be competing against the Ferraris today. I think our pace was not as good as Carlos, but probably better than Charles,” he said, indicating how happy he was with his performance. “So I think if I was being honest we maybe missed out a little bit on an opportunity to be P2 today.”

The British star said: “I think if you look back to here last year we were not terrible considering the car that we had. We’ve now come back with a good car and we’ve shown what we can do but I think this was always going to be a good weekend for us.”