Lando Norris beaten in super-sized UNO game with Gasly and Piastri

Lando NorrisLando NorrisMcLaren · United Kingdom · Driver6th POS201 PTS, Oscar PiastriOscar PiastriMcLaren · Australia · Driver7th POS138 PTS and Pierre Gasly played a super-sized game of UNO in the Formula 1Formula 1 World ChampionshipInternational paddock, in a clip published on the sport's official YouTube channel on 20 October 2026. The video passed 320,000 views in less than a day.

Formula 1 introduced the footage as the McLarenMcLarenUnited Kingdom3rd POS339 PTS pair being joined by Gasly for a game of super-sized UNO in the paddock. The cards were oversized versions of the standard deck rather than the ordinary pack, and the table was set up in the paddock itself.

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The line-up: two McLaren drivers and Gasly

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The grouping is what gives the clip its shape. Norris and Piastri are team-mates, which sets up an internal contest inside the game, while Gasly is the outsider at the table — the only driver in the footage who is not part of the McLaren line-up.

McLaren's driver pairing is one of the most closely followed in the sport, and any footage that puts the two of them in direct competition away from the track tends to travel further than a standard paddock feature. Adding a driver from another team gives the clip a second, cross-team rivalry to play with.

The reported result

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The game is reported to have ended in defeat for Norris. The identity of the winner has not been confirmed, and McLaren have not commented on the result.

Why a card game travels

Formula 1's own channels have increasingly carried driver-led content built around formats with simple, visible rules: a table, a deck, a result. The appeal is not the game itself so much as watching drivers who are usually scripted in a press context behave competitively over something that does not count for anything.

The viewing figure is the clearest measure of whether the format worked. More than 320,000 views in under a day puts the clip among the sport's better-performing paddock videos of the kind, and it was achieved without a race result, a technical development or a championship consequence behind it.

What is not yet known

The footage does not establish which grand prix weekend it was filmed at, and neither the sport nor the teams have said when or where the game took place beyond the paddock setting. Nobody involved has indicated whether the format will return, whether the same three drivers will play again, or whether there is a rematch planned.

Nor has the losing margin been disclosed. Whether Norris was eliminated early or ran the game close is not set out, which leaves the reported defeat as the only firm detail of the result. For now the clip stands as a piece of paddock content rather than a contest with a recorded scoreline.