Defending Formula 1 world champion Lando Norris has co-founded a junior racing team which will compete in several of the sport's leading developmental categories from 2027 onwards.
McLaren driver Norris, who claimed his maiden F1 championship in 2025 and has won the last two races of the 2026 season, announced the LN4 Fusion team at an event north of Monza, host of this weekend's Italian Grand Prix.
LN4 Fusion will join the Formula 3 championship, which competes on the undercard of F1 race weekends throughout the season and is the series below official feeder championship Formula 2, as well as participating in Formula Regional European Championship (FRECA) and Italian Formula 4.
The team has acquired assets from AIX Racing in order to participate and has begun the application process for participation in Formula 2 down the line. Norris said his goal is to create an environment capable of developing talent for F1.
"I've been really lucky to have some amazing people around me throughout my career and I know that getting to Formula 1 takes so much more than just talent," Norris said.
"You need the right people around you, the right support and the right opportunities at the right time."
Norris is expected to have an active involvement in the project, although the team's day-to-day sporting and technical operations will be overseen by team principal Rene Rosin. As well as the three confirmed series' for 2027, a test is ongoing around a potential British F4 Championship entry in future too.
LN4 Fusion will be based in Veneto in northern Italy, with a British base in Cambridgeshire.
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On top of the racing team, Norris has launched a separate initiative, the LN4 Legacy Programme, designed to identify and fully fund promising young drivers from an early age.
The Legacy Programme will be run by ADD Management and will provide coaching, mentoring and performance support while attempting to remove what Wednesday's announcement called "one of motorsport's biggest barriers to entry -- the considerable financial cost of progressing through the junior categories."
On this, Norris said: "I want to help create opportunities for the next generation, both on and off the track, and hopefully make a real difference to young drivers coming through the sport".
