One of his favorite post-race replenishments is a chicken burger. He does not want anything to do with a seafood tower. But that's not to say he's immune to his senses: He recently partnered with Ralph Lauren to be a face of the company’s revitalized Polo Red fragrance, which first launched in 2013.
Last year, when Norris spoke to GQ, he anticipated that his chances of winning a championship title might arrive in 2024, or possibly 2025.
Either way, he said, it’ll only happen if he’s at “the absolute top of my game.” A year later, GQ caught up with the nicest guy in F1 to hear how he got there—he told us about overnight oats, his driver-specific physical training, and the power of a running group chat.
Talking about his diet, the McLaren driver said, “o my at home day is normally very simple: an overnight oats breakfast. I'm lazy with some of my stuff, so it's easy to do a bigger batch and have enough for a few days. Sometimes just my own scrambled eggs or poached eggs. I love eggs, so that's an easy one for me to do.
Lunch, when I'm at home, normally is just a simple salad. There's a couple places nearby where I live, where you go in, you can just make your own salad. And for me, again, just very easy. Whether I've been out on a run or I'm going traveling or something, or I'm going out to play golf, either I can eat there, or I can just take it away, or I can even make a couple and save one for later or save one for the next day. But a nice chicken salad normally is my go-to.
On race weekends, my lunch normally is nothing too fancy. I'm not a big eater normally across race weekend itself. But my breakfast? It’s normally a poached egg on toast with avocado, potentially a little yogurt with muesli, or some oats and berries on the side. And lunch is normally just a chicken wrap. Chicken wraps have been my thing since the last six years. It's even more like they're something I've always been able to have, something that's very easy for me to have, and can get a lot of good stuff inside the chicken wrap to mix around with it. But for me it’s a must.
And for dinners: a bit more free. Dinners are normally, let's say, my cheat meal kind of times. When I'm at home, normally I would go out with my friends, and I'll go to restaurants and stuff like that. The only thing I really have to avoid, because I hate it, is any seafood or shell-based food. Basically anything under the sea is a big no-no, and I cannot even get near so that's like the biggest “No.”
