Adele almost never does public events, but her 13-year-old son Angelo’s Formula 1 obsession pulled her trackside at Silverstone on Sunday for the British Grand Prix. She’s spent years dodging the spotlight, so a Sunday in the paddock counts as a real sighting.
Adele almost never does public events, but her 13-year-old son’s Formula 1 obsession pulled her trackside at Silverstone on Sunday. She turned up in a fan tee for McLaren’s Lando Norris and a fine necklace spelling “Mummy,” and watched Charles Leclerc take his first British Grand Prix win.
A closer look at the layered gold necklaces — including one reading ‘Mummy’ — as Adele makes her way through the paddock at the British Grand Prix, Silverstone, on July 5, 2026. Photo by Kym Illman / Getty Images.
Adele, 38, has spent years dodging the spotlight, so a Sunday afternoon in the Silverstone paddock counts as a real sighting. The reason she was there traces back to her only child, Angelo, who she shares with ex-husband Simon Konecki.
Charles Leclerc tips back a bottle of Moët champagne on the Silverstone podium, confetti swirling around him, after taking the British Grand Prix win on July 5, 2026. Photo by Clive Mason / Getty Images.
Two days before the race, she gave a rare interview admitting they’ve bonded over a shared F1 “obsession” after he got into karting, the entry point most drivers use to reach the sport.
At Silverstone Circuit on July 5, 2026, Adele is spotted in an oversized McLaren ‘2025 Constructors’ World Champions’ tee and VIP paddock pass ahead of the British Grand Prix. Photo by David Davies / PA Images via Getty Images.
“I don’t know many teenagers who have a passion so I’m really trying to encourage it,” she said. “He’s obsessed but I’m also obsessed.”
A sea of fans, phones raised, floods the track at Silverstone to celebrate Charles Leclerc’s British Grand Prix victory on July 5, 2026. Photo by Andrej Isakovic / AFP via Getty Images.
The interview came out of an access-all-areas family visit to the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, where she took Angelo to meet Norris, team boss Andrea Stella, CEO Zak Brown, and driver Oscar Piastri. Piastri coached her through a simulator run. In Mission Control with Stella she played race engineer and pitched a cheeky alternative to the standard “Box, box” pit call. She joked her way into rooms she wasn’t sure she was cleared for.
Leclerc’s No. 16 Ferrari leads the pack through the opening corners at Silverstone as the 2026 British Grand Prix gets underway on July 5. Photo by Rudy Carezzevoli / Getty Images.
Sitting down with Norris, she was asked whether she still enjoys singing. “I don’t sing very often anymore,” she said, before pulling on a driving headset and firing off a few lines of Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time.”
Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, and Alexander Albon chat during the drivers parade before the British Grand Prix at Silverstone Circuit on July 5, 2026. Photo by Peter Fox / Getty Images.
“Sorry, I feel like Britney Spears,” she added. She also called it “ridiculous” that her job is being a singer, saying she’d once wanted to work in A&R and never thought of herself as the talent.
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