When sports worlds collide, Rice and McLaren F1 superstar Lando Norris meet, sharing stories of competing at the highest level and managing pressure on the global stage.

Rice: This is the first time I've been this close to an F1 car.

Norris: Haven't you been to a race before?

Rice: No, never. I've never had the time. Even for a race like Silverstone. It's never been in my schedule. So I definitely want to find a chance to watch it.

We could go to Silverstone, or we could go to Monaco. You're free. You can go wherever you want. Name a place, and you can go.

Rice: So how different is this car from last year's car?

Norris: Oh, it's very different. I don't know how much you know about these things, but there's a lot. The entire car is different, from how it looks to its layout, and the engine works differently this year too. Like the hybrid system, batteries and all that. I'm still figuring it all out. It's complicated. It really is.

Rice: But every other team will be trying to gain an advantage too.

Norris: That's the thing. Because these are new regulations now, it's an opportunity for teams to build bigger advantages, isn't it? So over the last few years, everyone's gotten closer and more similar. Now it's like everyone's got their freedom back, and you have to figure out how to gain those advantages. So it's really interesting. You don't really know what everyone's working on, and there are some little secrets and things like that, but those secrets are created in this building. Nobody knows what happens in those rooms. You won't see it. I'll tell you, I don't think you'd fit in the car. I don't think so.

Rice: Yeah, I really don't think I'd fit either. My legs are too long.

Norris: Do you like cars?

Rice: Yeah, I like cars. But for you, this must be like car heaven.

Norris: It really is. It really is. The first time I came here, I was about 11 or 12 years old. Wasn't I? Yeah. So that was it.

Rice: 14 years ago, mate. That's mad. This is the building you come back to after winning a race, and everyone's so happy seeing that footage. Yeah, that's mad.

Norris: It's also special walking around here. I've known this place for years, but you see names like Fittipaldi, Senna, Prost—everyone in racing knows these names. You always see them, some world champions, and Mika Häkkinen, and now I think, yeah, my name's up there alongside them. It's incredible. It does your head in just thinking about it. So there are some historic cars here, maybe some of the best racing cars ever built—Senna's car, and some of the coolest cars, worth a fortune. Yeah, actually I still get to drive them occasionally, because we have the Goodwood events. We have family days here. We can drive the cars around the lake. How different are they? Very different. I mean, these have an H-pattern manual gearbox. So I have to go back in time, shift gears, use the clutch. Because now our paddle clutch is on the steering wheel. Yeah. I only use it at the start, when pulling the car out of the pit lane.

But I mean, it's like a road car. You've got the clutch pedal, then you know, first gear, second gear, you've got one hand on the steering wheel. So imagine Monaco. Imagine driving Monaco like that now. Monaco plus clutch. So this is the car he was driving back then? Yeah. I mean, yeah, there are a few here. And this, if you talk to people obsessed with F1, these are considered some of the best racing cars ever built.

Rice: The new car you just showed me, the one you'll be driving this season, compared to this one, it's mad. It's like two different worlds. Safety innovation has always been one of the biggest changes. Like here, I mean, these cars now use carbon fiber monocoques, whereas before it was more like fiberglass.

Norris: Right. So by that point, safety had already improved a lot. But again, you know, there's nothing, you can see the entire driver's head, the helmet sits here, so the whole head is exposed, no Halo. You know, the Halo was only introduced five, six, seven years ago. Before that it was completely open, you know, and the driver's feet were just sitting there.

Rice: Yeah. Yeah. That really puts it in perspective. Yeah. Safety is one area where innovation has had the biggest impact. Yeah. Look, you're a bit more compact in the car now. Yeah. And everything's much thicker. I mean, like this, I mean, and it's also much lighter. Um, when you really think about it, and then think about how fast you're going, and you usually only watch it on TV, it makes you realize, yeah, these are some of the best F1 cars ever built. Some of them are slightly more modern cars.

Norris: Hmm, like cars from 2007, 2008. That's when technological innovation started becoming more important. Right. This is our heritage department. So some of the cars here are still driven now by their owners or others. This department will restore and rebuild them, because think about running these cars now. Their technology is outdated. So to get these old cars running, you need laptops that might have been made 40 years ago, with all that old technology. So shall we go in and have a look?

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