Lando Norris shares health update after smashing champagne bottle and walking into firework

Lando Norris has insisted that he's fine after a bizarre, slapstick sequence of events on the Brazilian Grand Prix podium.

The reigning world champion drove a masterful race in changing conditions to take an impressive third win of the season ahead of Max Verstappen, but everything went wrong after he was presented with his winner's trophy.

The Brit leapt down from the top step of the podium and slammed the bottom of his Jeroboam of champagne onto the floor – his standard trick to get it to fizz up more violently than the traditional 'shake and spray' approach – only for the 3 litre bottle to shatter, leaving him bewildered and holding just the neck.

With circus music presumably playing in his head, Norris then stumbled straight into the path of the small pyrotechnic machine which was shooting eye-catching sparks up into the air, looking utterly disorientated.

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Norris opens up on champagne problems

Norris' main message when speaking on a Twitch stream on Monday? Little firework-looking things to the side of the head, not painful. Champagne being sprayed into your eyes from multiple directions, painful.

Speaking to his viewers, he said: "How's my ear? My ear is fine, thanks for asking. The problem is, everyone's like, 'Why did you walk into it?' It's because I got sprayed with champagne in my eyes, then I couldn't see anything. I couldn't see where I was going.

"I don't think people realise how much it hurts and stings having champagne in your eyes. I didn't know where I was moving and, all of sudden, it just gets pretty warm on my ear. It felt pretty warm.

"I couldn't see it, so I just felt it there. I was already in shock that my bottle broke, for the first time in my life. But it didn't hurt. I just felt something on my ear. I thought it was a fly.

"It didn't hurt. I'm hard as nails! I hit my bottle, I then had a little moment where I was like, 'Oh my God, my hand is gone'."

This is Norris' second champagne-bump celebration incident in F1, infamously smashing Max Verstappen's €40,000 Hungarian Grand Prix trophy with the same move back in 2023. Maybe...time to retire that one?

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