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hi, me is back ✍️ im back for likle ✍️ for like 1 hour or so ✍️ bettre than ni ✍️ bettre than naffin ✍️ bettre than nothing ✍️ better than nothing ✍️ right? ✍️ gimme a seck ✍️ gimme a sec
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hi, me is back ✍️ im back for likle ✍️ for like 1 hour or so ✍️ bettre than ni ✍️ bettre than naffin ✍️ bettre than nothing ✍️ better than nothing ✍️ right? ✍️ gimme a seck ✍️ gimme a sec
LANDO'S TWITCH STREAM: IM GAMIN | GREMLIN LANDO BEING ANNOYING june 2nd 2025
max. you’re now in a horrendous position. lando: no, you are in the lobby. max: you better get my stuff out like... lando: *TERRIBLE GREMLIN NOISES* max: ... i did for you. just letting you know. lando: *TERRIBLE GREMLIN NOISES*
LANDO'S TWITCH STREAM: IM GAMIN | LANDO'S BROTHER AND FRIENDS FOUND THE MAX CUTOUT
june 2nd 2025
lando: that's actual size max. yeah. and he's got air force ones on. max: it's not life-size. lando: that is life-size. max. no, it's not. lando: ok. it's actual size. max: i stood next to it.
LANDO'S TWITCH STREAM: OMG | just ln & max being weird about rm watches. nothing new january 23rd 2026
silly mando convo + banter about rm watches on stream? flashback to january 26th last year...
golden helmet + pikachu gamer chair thingy + vr46 hat
LANDO'S TWITCH STREAM: OMG | just ln organizing his helmets shelf in front of 23k strangers! january 23rd 2026
with The Nortrell Primer coming up soon (it's coming up soon i prommy), i wanted to start sharing a few things i've pieced together, a few things that didn't quite add up at the time, especially during that twitch stream from about 3 years ago, when lando was live answering some questions from subs/viewers with max, cause i didn't know all the stuff i know now ofc.
and when i say "a few things" i really mean a lot of things but they all lead back to the same thing: the day max saw his best friend for the first time. which, for the record, wasn't the first time they spoke and it wasn't the first time they officially met.
it was just the first time max saw lando like really saw him and, for some reason, remembered.
LANDO'S TWITCH STREAM | lando and max talking about karting days
april 14th 2022
as many as you know, they both began karting early, on separate countries but with the same goal. they didn't end up on the same team (ricky flynn motorsport) until 2012, and it wasn't until 2013 that they finally competed against each other in the same class (kf-junior) during the WSK euro series.
in this clip, they talk about how they got started in karting, which eventually leads to max sharing the story of the first time he saw lando on track.
full transcript:
max: "what made you get into karting?" erm, i went to the singapore f1 race in 2008. loved it, loved the sound. and then i tried karting after school once and just fell in love with it... lando: awww max... and kept going back every day. and then i just started racing. i'm not going to go into that story really. it's take ages. i just liked it when i tried it. and then i kept doing it. lando: i did mine... we went to a car race after school on friday, mate. max: yeah? lando: and then my dad went round asking different people if they have any spare suits and boots. and i think we've still got the suits and boots that i got. it was like a blue suit and i mean, at the time, right, i must, it's 2007. so i must have had like a kids 13 size shoe, mate. kids 12, maybe not even that. max: kids 12. lando: kids 12 or something, and these are like size 3, size 4 shoes, which are way too big for me. imagine me in a bambino, right? (the bambino karting class is for kids aged 6–8, using smaller, lighter karts made just for them) how small i was within a size 4 shoe! max: i first saw you -we didn't know each other at this point- but i remember watching, i don't know why i was at pfi (as in pf international circuit). you were just driving around in this little comer (as in comer cadet), like tiny, mate. and i just remember watching for a few laps. lando: yeah, you're watching me, yeah? max: yeah, someone said "that kid... he's just won or something" so i was like oh. lando: oh, really? max: yeah, it was... you had the...that... your first helmet with that black and orange one on. lando: i'm not going to lie i never won a race in cadets. max: i don't know, they said you've... i don't know... you were first(?) [inaudible for me] lando: i think they just said i was goated. max: yeah, probably chatting to the team boss, picking you up. lando: i was probably like 5 years old. max: you were erm... lando: i must have been what? max: you had the black and orange lid on. lando: yeah, so i must have been 8, 9. max: yeah. lando: but i mean, i was freaking tiny at 9 years old. max: you're whizzing round, mate. you're so small. their friend: max, you've been following borris around since he was 9. max: yeah. lando: he's just an absolute fanboy, really. max: i'm day one fan, mate. their friend: watch his fanboy. he's a hidden fan girl. he's a double agent in disguise. max: (to his friend) you're the fan girl, mate. you've recently discovered discord and gets in every day. lando: he's freaking every day waiting on discord for us to join, mate.
okay, now let's set aside how they got into karting for a second and just focus on what max said. because it's kind of wild. he knew lando before even really knowing him. max didn't know who he was, but he remembered him. remembered the way he drove. remembered the way someone told him that lando won and remembered how tiny he was.
max remembered him long before they became anything to each other.
and of course, lando, being very lando, laughed it off and said "you were watching me, yeah?" in that confident way he does when he's just trying to wind max up... but because he's also so lando, you could practically hear his brain gears turning mid stream, and, as always, once his brain starts going, his mouth doesn't exactly wait for permission to follow.
that's when he said two things that stuck with me:
first, that he never won a race in cadets, as in comer cadets class.
and second, that he was probably around nine years old at the time.
and that's what made me revisit all of this. i remember watching that stream and thinking: there's no way max is making that up. no way someone just randomly told him a random kid (lando was random kid abck then) had won when he hadn't. like… who lies to a kid's face like that? (who would lie to this face? not me)
so i went back. i started digging because earlier this year (big 2025), when the 2019 rookies (george, lando, alex) started "closing up" in the formula (n)one standings again, i remembered they used to race in the same karting series: the super one series (s1 to f1). and that little spark sent me down the rabbit hole, and eventually, i ended up writing a big post about it in april but i finally posted like a week ago (this one right here).
and here's what i realised: lando norris is an unreliable narrator.
i don't blame him tho... memories from that age blur, results get mixed up, wins feel smaller in hindsight. but still. lando... let me hold your hands (The Big Paws) when i say this... you were the comer cadet 'o' plate winner in 2010.
there is literal footage. there is photo evidence.
lando norris wins comer cadet 'o' plate 2010 via tvkc on fb reposting 4motor yt vid
earlier this year, adam norris posted what looked like a karting memory (note)book on ig and the front cover was a photo of little lando norris, small enough to look like he barely fit in the frame, holding a massive trophy. that pic as far as i can tell, was taken the day he won the comer cadet ‘o’ plate, at none other than pf international circuit, the very same place max said he saw lando for the first time.
age 10, "karting is what i love doing an my ambition is to win the formula 1 world championship" via adam_norris_pure_electric on ig (this pic is not part of adam ig feed anymore btw :/)
so far, everything lines up pretty well... that race lando won was in june 6th 2010, which means both he and max would've been 10 years old, not 9 like lando said in the stream.
so… was it that exact date, that exact circuit, where max first saw lando? ermmm, well, max said lando was wearing a black and orange helmet. and while lando was wearing a helmet that looked similar, it wasn't exactly black and orange on that day.
he did have a black and orange lid back in 2009 when he was racing in comer cadets (yes, he raced in comer cadets back in 2008, 2009 and 2010).
and how do i know lando did wear that black and orange helmet? because there’s a book — published over fifteen years ago by none other than jane eyes and steve illott, callum illott’s parents.
now, if you're reading this (and i'm not just screaming into the void), you might be asking: why would callum’s parents publish a book? well, simple — callum was also racing in the comer cadet class in 2009.
jane and steve put together that book — and a few others — filled with photos from every round of the championship, each with little captions underneath.
and this particular book was focused on lando and his older brother, oliver. and in those photos (which i'll include below), you can clearly see lando in 2009, wearing — you guessed it — a black and orange helmet.
comer cadet season 2009 by jane eyes and steveilott via blurb books uk
if you're wondering how i even found this book: i stumbled across it years ago just by googling “lando norris karting 2009 cadets” but it came back to me this year when adam posted a pic of a page of it back in february.
@.lando @.olivernorris1 Good photo jane_eyes_ilott via adam_norris_pure_electric on threads
(adam's name is a recurrent name in this post. lando might joke that max was his og fan but truthfully? one of his biggest fans has always been his dad. kudos to adam.)
in that post, adam tagged callum's mum, which makes it pretty likely that he was flipping through that exact same book.
let's keep going.
lando that year he didn't win a single race, didn't take the 'o' plate, and finished 14th in the championship standings.
and here's the key part: in 2009, max was still living in malaysia. we know this because on november 22nd, 2009, max raced in the red white sangari invitational kart prix, where he finished 5th. so he couldn’t have seen lando racing in the uk that year.
so... is max an unreliable narrator too? maybe. or maybe he just remembered the helmet a little differently. it's far more likely he saw the chrome and orange helmet lando wore in 2010 and remembered it as black and orange. they were similar enough, especially in motion. it happens.
taking all that into account: the dates, the location, the helmet, the timelines... i feel pretty confident saying NOW that in june 6th in 2010, at pf international circuit, max saw a tiny little boy who would eventually become his best friend :') smol frens !!!!
that was the moment. that was the origin story.
and lando doesn't even remember it lmao.
incredible.
lando's twitch stream | lando tries on the me shoeees shoes (25.03.20)
lil throwback to when jarv :) sent lando a pair of custom shoes with their radio messages on them. lando unboxed them live on stream and jarv watched the whole thing and even took photos for an special ig post.
since more ppl are reblogging this post here's the stream bit where lando tries them on. from minute 3 onward he's just boy shaped soft pretzel :3