the last time he cut short his interview with written media in the pen<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn a back-and-forth with RacingNews365, the Canadian departed upon saying “maybe you should go ask them [the team]” when he was questioned on why his weekends in F1 have progressed backwards of late.<\/p>\n
Explaining the situation prior to that interaction, Stroll said: “Generally, the car goes backwards throughout the weekend, so I am not surprised [to qualify P19]…<\/p>\n
“I had no grip. It’s kind of what happens a lot; there’s good grip in the practice, and then you come into qualifying, and there’s just no grip,” he added, which prompted the question from RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
The Silverstone-based squad has often shown strong form early in a grand prix weekend before seeing its pace fall off in qualifying.<\/p>\n
In Mexico, Stroll sat out FP1 for Jak Crawford, but when he returned to his car for the second hour of running, he was tenth-quickest. In the third and final practice session, he was P13, which would have been fast enough to see him safely through to Q2.<\/p>\n
It is an issue that has affected Stroll more than Fernando Alonso in the other AMR25.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, the 26-year-old has performed well relative to his team-mate this season. After 19 rounds, he has 32 points to the Spaniard’s 37.<\/p>\n
However, he has not scored in the past four rounds, and has often struggled in qualifying across the campaign, with 14 Q1 eliminations this year.<\/p>\n
Qualifying for the Mexico City Grand Prix also marked the 31st consecutive time the three-time podium finisher has been out-qualified by Alonso.<\/p>\n
Check out the full interaction in the media pen below!<\/p>\n
\t\t\tFull media pen exchange between RacingNews365 and Stroll<\/p>\n
RacingNews365: “Why is it going backwards during the weekend?”<\/p>\n
Stroll: “I don’t know. Maybe… I don’t know. I don’t have all the answers, but just generally is.”<\/p>\n
RacingNews365: “It’s been like this consistently now for quite some time now.”<\/p>\n
Stroll: “Yep.”<\/p>\n
RacingNews365: “Why don’t you have any answers yet? Surely the team must be giving you…”<\/p>\n
Stroll [injects]: “No, maybe you should go ask them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lance Stroll walked away from his post-session media duties for the second time since the F1 summer break…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243184,"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-243183","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\/243183","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=243183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}