{"id":242403,"date":"2025-10-27T00:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242403\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:51:08","slug":"lando-norris-booed-out-of-mexican-gp-stadium-as-confusion-swirls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242403\/","title":{"rendered":"Lando Norris booed out of Mexican GP stadium as confusion swirls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lando Norris delivered a sublime performance to win the Mexico City Grand Prix in dominant fashion, as he returned to the top of the Drivers\u2019 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was not a result which pleased everyone in attendance, as loud booing rang out from the stadium section at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez, directed towards Norris.<\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris booed at Mexico City GP<\/p>\n<p>Norris lined-up on the grid in pole position, knowing that opportunity knocked in a major way in Mexico. With Max Verstappen starting P5 only and Oscar Piastri P7, Norris had the opportunity to supercharge his World Championship hopes.<\/p>\n<p>Norris converted his stunning pole lap into an utterly dominant victory, taking the chequered flag 30 seconds up the road from runner-up Charles Leclerc in the Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, a section of the fans made their disapproval towards Norris known in the post-race interviews. Why Norris attracted such a negative reaction, is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian racer turned F1 analyst James Hinchcliffe spoke with the top three, Leclerc and Max Verstappen both receiving positive reactions. Norris, however, did not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s one weekend at a time,\u201d Norris, the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drivers\u2019 Championship<\/a> leader began.<\/p>\n<p>But, Norris paused as a chorus of boos rang out from the stadium section behind him.<\/p>\n<p>Norris composed himself in the face of the hostility, and continued: \u201cIt\u2019s one weekend at a time. So, you know, I\u2019m happy. I\u2019m focused on myself. I keep my head down, I ignore all of this, and, yeah, I keep to myself, and it\u2019s working at the minute. So I\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from the Mexico City Grand Prix via PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/mexican-grand-prix-2025-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican GP: Dominant Norris takes title lead as Hamilton penalised after Verstappen incident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/how-carlos-sainz-denied-valtteri-bottas-an-f1-2025-seat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Carlos Sainz denied Valtteri Bottas an F1 2025 seat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time that a leading driver has been subjected to booing from some fans, with reigning four-time World Champion Verstappen having faced such a reaction at times during his dominance of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>But, Verstappen has established himself as one of Formula 1\u2019s most popular drivers, which could have had something to do with the booing aimed at Norris, after he gave himself a massive shot of momentum in the title fight versus Verstappen and Piastri.<\/p>\n<p>Potentially, another trigger may have been the unfounded sabotage claims regarding Piastri which are doing the rounds on social media.<\/p>\n<p>With Piastri finishing P5 only, he relinquished the Drivers\u2019 Championship lead to Norris, who goes into the Sao Paulo Grand Prix one point ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Read next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/debunking-mclaren-sabotage-conspiracy-momentum-oscar-piastri-lando-norris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Debunking McLaren sabotage conspiracy as momentum swings to Norris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris delivered a sublime performance to win the Mexico City Grand Prix in dominant fashion, as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,1613,591,113132,44,82],"class_list":["post-242403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-home-page","tag-lando-norris","tag-mexican-grand-prix","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}