{"id":108087,"date":"2025-08-31T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108087\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:32:09","slug":"lance-stroll-walks-away-from-interview-mid-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108087\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Stroll walks away from interview mid-question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Stroll cut short his post-qualifying media duties at Zandvoort. The Aston Martin driver walked away from the media pen mid-question, leaving a bemused journalist without a response.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian will start P20 and last at the Dutch Grand Prix after a mistake saw him crash in Q1, ending his session without a timed lap.<\/p>\n<p>After starting the weekend in fine form, going third quickest in FP1, <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/huge-lance-stroll-crash-brings-out-red-flag-in-dutch-fp2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a heavy crash early in the second hour of running<\/a> meant <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/fia-confirm-aston-martin-survival-cell-change-after-massive-lance-stroll-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Silverstone squad had to build a new AMR25 overnight<\/a>, breaking curfew to get it ready for FP3.<\/p>\n<p>The survival cell of Stroll&#8217;s car was damaged, as was much of the rest of the chassis, which necessitated the comprehensive changes. The power unit and gearbox were also changed as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p>That work preceded his qualifying incident, where on his first push lap, the three-time podium finisher strayed onto the grass at the entry of Turn 13, <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/lance-stroll-misery-continues-with-second-smash-in-two-days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spinning his car and hitting the barrier at the exit of the corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The damage to his front wing and the underside of the car proved critical, ending his session despite managing to get it back to the pits.<\/p>\n<p>The disappointment was evident. When speaking to the media, including RacingNews365, Stroll answered questions about the grid-setting hour as usual.<\/p>\n<p>However, when asked if Aston Martin had made a big turnaround since the Belgian Grand Prix &#8211; where the 26-year-old and team-mate Fernando Alonso qualified on the final row &#8211; and if the team had unlocked some understanding of its car, Stroll decided to end the media session, walking away.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso, who was second-fastest in FP2 in the other AMR25, qualified in P10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lance Stroll cut short his post-qualifying media duties at Zandvoort. The Aston Martin driver walked away from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-108087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}