Donald Trump takes credit for Lando Norris’ Miami GP victory as Brit reveals what the former president said to him after the race

Lando Norris, who clinched his maiden Formula 1 win at the Miami Grand Prix Sunday, said it was an ‘honor’ to have Donald Trump supporting him from the McLaren garage. 

The embattled former president was flanked by his secret service security team when he arrived at Hard Rock Stadium to spend time with McLaren CEO Zak Brown. 

He also met with F1 chief executive Stefano Domenicali and FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem before congratulating the 24-year-old Brit on his first victory. 

‘He saw me after and he came up to congratulate me so I guess it’s an honor,’ he told Mail Sport. 

‘Whenever you have someone like this come up to you to take time out of their life to pay their respect for what you’ve done … it has to be an honor,’ he went on. 

Norris described the interaction as a ‘cool moment,’ revealing the current Republican Party frontrunner said he was ‘a lucky charm.’ 

‘I don’t know if he’s going to come to more races now,’ Norris joked. 

‘But there’s a lot of special, cool people that have been here this weekend. 

‘Donald is someone that you’ve got to have a lot of respect for in many ways and for anyone like that who acknowledge what you can go out and do, and the work ethic that goes into things, you’ve got to be thankful for that.’

The papaya team previously distanced themselves from the equally orange politician.  

‘McLaren is a non-political organization however we recognize and respect the office of President of the United States so when the request was made to visit our garage on race day we accepted alongside the president of the FIA and the CEO’s of Liberty Media and Formula 1,’ the team said in a statement. 

Norris clinched victory over Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in third.