The reigning Formula 1 world champion announced the project on Wednesday near Monza, on the eve of the Italian Grand Prix weekend. Norris, who won the 2025 drivers’ title with McLaren and is contracted to the team through 2030, is co-owner alongside an investment group led by businessman Dan Richards. The operation is built in partnership with British karting squad Fusion Motorsport.
The team’s cars will run a dark livery with Norris’s signature fluorescent yellow and the blob graphics associated with his helmet and personal brand.
LN4 Fusion has acquired selected assets of AIX Racing, securing an FIA Formula 3 entry through the end of 2027. It has confirmed programmes in the Italian F4 Championship and the FIA Formula Regional European Championship (FRECA) for next season, and is already running a British F4 testing programme while working toward a future entry in that series. An application to join Formula 2 for the 2027–2029 cycle is underway.
Former Prema boss René Rosin will serve as team principal. Rosin, who left Prema earlier this year, has won more than 40 junior championships and oversaw the development of drivers including Charles Leclerc, Oscar Piastri and Kimi Antonelli. Ex-Prema technical chief Guillaume Capietto joins as racing director. Dan Hazlewood, long-time head of Fusion Motorsport, will lead UK operations from a base in Cambridgeshire. The European headquarters will be in Veneto, northern Italy, where a new facility is being built. Richards will act as CEO.
Alongside the race team, Norris is launching the LN4 Legacy Programme, an independent, fully funded driver-development scheme operated by ADD Management and led by former Alpine sporting director Julian Rouse. The programme is intended to identify promising drivers from karting upward and provide coaching, mentoring, performance support and financial backing — addressing what Norris described as one of junior motorsport’s biggest barriers.
“I’ve been really lucky to have some amazing people around me throughout my career, and I know that getting to Formula 1 takes so much more than just talent,” Norris said. “You need the right people around you, the right support and the right opportunities at the right time. That’s what these two projects are all about.”
He added that the team is about competing with the best in junior racing, while the Legacy Programme is about giving talented drivers chances they might not otherwise have. “For me, they naturally fit together. I want to help create opportunities for the next generation, both on and off the track.”
FIA Formula 2 and F3 CEO Bruno Michel welcomed the move, noting that Norris is the first F2 graduate to become an F1 world champion and that LN4 Fusion will apply for the next three-year F2 cycle. Rosin said Norris’s experience of the junior ladder “adds a further dimension” and that the project has the backing and long-term vision needed to be built properly.
Norris said he will stay involved while racing full-time in F1 and sees the project as something that can outlast his driving career. “I have timed it so by the time I retire, they are old enough and can take my seat,” he joked. The team’s stated goal is to become the leading junior single-seater operation. Racing begins in 2027.
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