Formula 1: Lando Norris reveals McLaren secret

Lando Norris accidentally revealed the launch date for McLaren’s car for the 2020 Formula 1 season, the MCL35, during a livestream on the team’s YouTube channel.

McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris took over McLaren’s YouTube channel after finding out the team’s password, and he utilized that access to start a livestream.

At the team’s headquarters in Woking, England, the 20-year-old Briton made his way into a meeting room in which several McLaren employees were discussing confidential information.

A few of them had words for Norris’s video before he asked them what the meeting was about.

When told it was about the launch of McLaren’s 2020 challenger, to which he had referred just moments before entering the room upon seeing a sign on the wall about it, he made comments that were not supposed to be public quite yet about this car, the MCL35.

“I heard it was on the 13th of February,” stated Norris. “Zak [Brown, McLaren CEO] told me it was on the 13th!”

Here is a video of this livestream.

As you can see toward the end of this video, Norris was clearly unaware of what he had done and the employees in the room really couldn’t react one way other due to the fact that the date was, in fact, supposed to be confidential.

So they did what they could do to quickly end the video, although that nautrally gave it away anyway.

McLaren did later confirm this launch date on Twitter, not that they needed to at this point, by linking a picture of the launch date to the recording of Norris’s YouTube livestream slip-up.

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— McLaren (@McLarenF1) January 13, 2020