{"id":477300,"date":"2026-10-26T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477300\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:22:08","slug":"ted-cruz-booed-while-presenting-f1-trophy-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477300\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz booed while presenting F1 trophy in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cruz, who served as the trophy presenter at the F1 U.S. Grand Prix, was met with jeers as he stood on the podium to present the first-place trophy to Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli. Once Antonelli received the trophy, the boos quickly turned to cheers.<\/p>\n<p>On X, Cruz posted about the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncredible day at the Austin Grand Prix with Caroline. Perfect Dad-daughter afternoon,\u201d Cruz\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tedcruz\/status\/2114567520422359518?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cThe eyes of the racing world were on Texas. Congrats to Kimi Antonelli on a huge win. It was an honor to present the championship trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 sporting procedure manual from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fia.com\/regulation\/category\/110\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l\u2019Automobile<\/a>, the F1 governing body, says a \u201chead of state\u201d or \u201ccomparable person within the host country\u201d should be invited to present the winning driver\u2019s award.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Cruz was booed during his interview on ESPN\u2019s \u201cCollege Game Day\u201d at the Texas football game against Ohio State on Sept. 12. He appeared on the show to promote the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-bill\/4668\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cProtect College Sports Act,\u201d<\/a> a bill passed by the Senate that establishes a framework for name, image and likeness use by college athletes and creates national rules for college athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cruz, who served as the trophy presenter at the F1 U.S. Grand Prix, was met with jeers as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-477300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}