Reigning Formula 1 world champion Lando Norris has launched a new racing team that will compete across junior motorsport from 2027. Norris, who races in F1 for McLaren, has established a team called LN4 Fusion along with Fusion Motorsport that is poised to compete across Formula 2, Formula 3 and Formula 4 in the near future. Advertisement The new team is intended to provide a pathway for young drivers to move from go-karting all the way up the single-seater racing ladder en route toward F1. LN4 Fusion has appointed Rene Rosin, the former boss of the successful Prema outfit that competed across junior motorsport, as its team principal, along with ex-Prema technical chief Guillaume Capietto as its racing director. The new team already has confirmed entries in Italian F4, the Formula Regional European Championship (a level between F4 and F3) and the FIA F3 series from next year. The F3 entry was secured after the new group acquired selected assets of AIX Racing, which has a place on next year’s grid for the series that competes as part of F1’s undercard. The application procedure for LN4 Fusion to compete in F2, the final category before F1, is also underway. Launch images of the LN4 Fusion cars — denoting Norris’s initials and his usual racing number — showed them running a paint scheme that features Norris’s hallmark fluorescent yellow color and graphics used on his race helmet. Norris has also launched a fully-funded driver development scheme called the LN4 Legacy Programme, which will be operated by his management and overseen by Julian Rouse, an experienced figure in junior motorsport who previously worked in F1 with Alpine. “LN4 Fusion is about building a race team that can compete with the best in junior motorsport, with great people and a great environment for