Norris triumphs at the Laureus Awards: he wins the award for best revelation of 2025

Vince Lando 2026 on the track has not started in the best way for Lando Norris, who has still never managed to get on the podium in the first three GPs of the season. However, the Englishman from McLaren can console himself with what happened last night at the Laureus World Sports Awards – considered like the Oscars for the world of sport – which were awarded in Madrid. The 2025 Formula 1 world champion in fact surprisingly won the award in the Breakthrough of the Year category, which could be translated into Italian as ‘best revelation’. Norris beat a rich competition, which consisted of the French footballer Désiré Doué, the Portuguese tennis player João Fonseca, the Canadian basketball player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the British darts phenomenon Luke Littler, and the Chinese swimmer Yu Zidi. In the roll of honour, Norris succeeds two top-level footballers such as Lamine Yamal, winner in 2025, and Jude Bellingham, winner two years ago. A roll of honor with lots of F1 Norris’s success reconnects a thread interrupted almost a decade ago between F1 and this category: the last driver to establish himself as Breakthrough of the Year was Nico Rosberg in 2017, also thanks to the world title won a few months earlier by beating his then teammate Lewis Hamilton. Going back in time, Daniel Ricciardo (2015), Jenson Button (2010), Lewis Hamilton (2009) and Juan Pablo Montoya (2002) were also elected revelation of the year at the Laureus Awards; the prizes obviously always refer to what was achieved in the previous season. Finally, again in the motorsport field, the success obtained in this category by Marc Marquez in 2014, following his first world title in MotoGP, should not be forgotten.