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lando norris He was surprisingly jeered by the crowd after his victory at the Mexico City Grand Prix on Sunday.
mclaren The driver started from pole and maintained the lead at the beginning and then took the lead 30 seconds win Finished second to Charles Leclerc max verstappen Completing the podium.
gives results to norris f1 World championship lead overtook for the first time since April oscar piastri In standings After this the Australians could only finish fifth. That being said, the gap between the McLaren drivers is just one point with four races left.
Nevertheless, when Norris was interviewed immediately after the race in the famous stadium section and when he stepped onto the podium, the loud Mexican crowd jeered him.
sky f1 pundit jamie chadwickThe three-time W Series champion criticized the criticism, saying: “I hate it, I hate criticism for anybody. It’s supposed to be appreciated, not criticized.”
Ex-F1 driver Karun Chandhok also insisted that he “hated” the booing by F1 fans at events.
On paper, there doesn’t seem to be any obvious reason why Norris would be unpopular among Mexican supporters, with 1997 F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve saying: “He’s not even fighting [Sergio] Perez, unless there are a lot of Piastri fans in the grandstand.”
However, Norris ignored the mistakes and was quite satisfied with his first win at a major UK weekend since July.
“I love it!” Norris said, when the applause at the beginning of the interview drowned out the boos.
“What a race – I just keep my eyes ahead and focus on what I’m doing. A very straight race for me, good start and can go from there.
“It’s amazing here. First win here in Mexico. Thank you very much to all the fans.”
Then, when the rebuke started to be heard, Norris just started laughing. Regarding the title race, the 25-year-old said: “It’s one weekend at a time. I’m happy, focusing on myself, keeping my head down, it’s working out at the moment.”
Norris now leads Piastri by one point and Verstappen by 36 points heading into the next race in Brazil on November 8.
When Norris was asked about the booing later in the press conference, he responded: “To be honest, I don’t know why. People can do whatever they want to be honest, it’s just sports sometimes, when I get booed I can’t stop laughing,” Norris said.
“You don’t want that, I would love if people cheered for me. Who knows? I just focus on doing my job. If they want to continue they can do that.”
A local journalist told Norris that Mexican fans felt that McLaren had helped him in his title battle with Piastri, as the Australian was ordered to isolate at Monza after stopping slow for his rival.
“Sure, if they want to think they can do whatever they want,” he replied. “As a team we tried to do things fairly. The same thing happened in Budapest last year – I let Oscar win the race he deserved.
“If they want to get the three points back, they can do that. Oscar deserved the win in Budapest, I deserved the win in Monza.”