Lando’s mother surprised everyone by consoling Piastri, then shed tears of emotion. His father Adam: “Too much tension, I watched the GP at home alone.”

Fingers crossed, a worried look behind her glasses. Cisca Wauman watched her son Lando Norris compete in the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix with great tension. The cameras repeatedly captured her watching TV in the McLaren pit, alongside her husband Adam and the driver’s girlfriend, Margarida Corceiro. Her tense face then relaxed as the 58 laps passed, especially in the final stages, when the F1 world title became a formality for Norris. Once the checkered flag was waved, Cisca let her emotions show, crying with joy along with the rest of the family. And then she made a wonderful gesture.

When her son Lando parked his MCL39 in third place in the parc fermé, his mother Cisca was there to greet him. Hiding his tears behind his helmet visor, Lando appeared emotional as he received his mother’s embrace. Shortly afterwards, she waited for Oscar Piastri, her son’s teammate and rival, to pass by and hugged him too. It was a sporting way to pay tribute to a major player in the 2025 F1 World Championship. It was the perfect image to end a highly spectacular season that went down to the wire.

The family—  At the end of the award ceremony, Norris thanked his parents: “I owe all this to Mom and Dad. They allowed me to achieve my dream and now I can share my emotions with them.” Cisca has Belgian origins but settled in Bristol with her husband Adam when the family grew. The couple have three other children besides Lando: Oliver, Flo, and Cisca Jr. Sport is a big part of the Norris household. Oliver himself competed in karting until 2014. Flo, on the other hand, is a horse rider. Little is known about Cisca, who shares her mother’s name.
Norris’s father—Adam, father of the new F1 world champion, explained: “From the first corner, I thought about how I would feel. I watched the race at home alone, trying to stay calm. In these races, you always think that something could happen until the last lap; you never know.”