Donald Trump takes credit for Norris win: 'I was the lucky charm'
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- Ludo van Denderen
Among all the celebrities, US ex-president Donald Trump also reported to Miami for the Grand Prix. The Republican spoke to Zak Brown, the CEO of McLaren, and then watched Lando Norris take his first win on behalf of that team. It is probably no surprise to many that Trump tried to take credit for that.
Norris recounted after the race what Trump had said to him: "He said he was my lucky charm because it’s my [first] win. So I don’t know if he’s going to come to more races now. But yeah, there are a lot of special people or cool people that have been here this weekend."
Norris continued: "Donald is someone that you’ve got to have a lot of respect for in many ways. And yeah, for anyone like that who acknowledges what you can go out and do and acknowledges the work ethic that goes into things, you’ve got to be thankful for that. And I was. So yeah, a cool moment. And that’s all."
McLaren comes out with a statement on Trump
Prior to the race, McLaren published a statement about Trump's garage visit. "McLaren is a non-political organisation however we recognise and respect the office of President of the United States so when the request was made to visit our garage on race day we accepted alongside the president of the FIA and the CEO’s of Liberty Media and Formula 1. We were honoured that McLaren Racing was chosen as the representative of F1 which gave us the opportunity to showcase the world class engineering that we bring to motorsport," McLaren said.