Lando Norris’ girlfriend flaunted her incredible bikini body before rejecting complaints from one of her partner’s Formula 1 rivals. The drivers’ championship leader has been romantically linked with Portuguese actress and model Margarida Corceiro for a while, though the couple have only recently made their relationship official.
Corceiro boasts a considerable profile herself with 2.2million Instagram followers, where she frequently shares content. Her feed features a mix of sophisticated fashion shots and alluring beachwear photographs. A particularly striking image, shared in June, captured her perched on a beach along Italy’s Amalfi Coast, gazing enticingly towards the ocean. The photograph garnered over 11,000 likes, with admirers describing her as “gorgeous” and suggesting Norris was a lucky man.
Corceiro has attended multiple race weekends to support her boyfriend, who stands on the brink of the F1 title at this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix, despite being disqualified from last weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix due to a technical breach discovered on both McLaren cars.
Television directors frequently pan to drivers’ partners in the garage throughout races, with Corceiro amongst those featured on camera. This practice hasn’t been universally welcomed, including by Norris’ ex-McLaren team-mate Carlos Sainz.
The Spanish driver, currently with Williams, expressed frustration regarding how often the international broadcast feed, used by networks such as Sky Sports for race coverage, focused on his girlfriend, Rebecca Donaldson, and other partners. However, Corceiro doesn’t agree and is comfortable being filmed even when the cars are on track.
She told Jornal de Noticias: “I don’t feel any pressure from being a public figure. I’m there to support someone. I have nothing to do with that. I don’t know anything about cars. I’m good for nothing other than supporting someone.
“I don’t call the cameras. I have nothing to do with that, it’s not my job or my area. If they record me, they record me. If they don’t record me, it doesn’t matter. Obviously, there are many cameras everywhere, but sometimes I don’t realise if I’m being recorded or not.”
Sainz criticised the coverage after the Singapore Grand Prix. Speaking to Spanish radio station El Partidazo de COPE, he said: “It’s becoming a bit of a trend, which must have worked for them at one time, when people found it interesting to see our girlfriends, to see famous people on television, the reactions.
“I understand that if there is an overtake, a very tense moment in the race, it is understandable that the production team might want to show a reaction shot, if they have seen that this has worked in the past, but only if the competition is respected and you are always showing the important moments of the race.
“Last weekend, they didn’t show any of the four or five overtakes I did at the end, nor did they show Fernando’s [Alonso] pursuit of Lewis [Hamilton]. They missed a lot of things.
“The other [showing the off-track things] is fine, but don’t lose sight of the main thing. For me, they go overboard a little by showing the celebrities and girlfriends.”
