Who is the youngest driver to win the CIK-FIA World Karting Championship?

Lando Norris is the youngest driver to win the CIK-FIA World Karting Championship.

Norris captured the 2014 CIK-FIA World Championship in the KF class, the premier senior karting category at the time. Racing for Ricky Flynn Motorsport, he became the youngest karting world champion in that category at age 14. The title was a major milestone before his transition into single-seater racing.

His karting résumé also included success in European and international competitions. Norris moved into car racing in 2014, competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship, and later progressed through Formula Renault, Formula 3, and Formula 2 before reaching Formula One.

A common mix-up is confusing a karting world title with a junior European championship or a later Formula One achievement. Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton, and Max Verstappen all had strong karting careers, but Norris holds this specific youngest-winner distinction for the CIK-FIA world title in KF.