Norris was asked what he’d learned from Fernando Alonso while at McLaren this year:

I rate him as a very good driver. I raced with him at Daytona, I’ve watched him race obviously in all these Formula 1 races. We’ve done a lot of things together, we get along really well.

He’s a really nice guy and I think it’s good for me to see how much effort, how much work he puts into every race weekend. What things he does differently to Stoffel and Stoffel does differently to Fernando and work out all the good things about any driver. So there’s a lot of things I’ve learned from Fernando.

I got to know him at a much earlier point in my career than any other driver. [I’ve seen] what he does, how he acts, how he does life. He’s the first guy I’ve always looked up to within Formula 1, mainly because of joining McLaren and getting to know him a bit more.