Lando Norris booed in Mexico: reason pops up, but he won’t stand for it

At the end of the Mexico City Grand Prix, the booing that the crowd reserved for race winner Lando Norris as he responded hotly to questions from James Hinchcliffe did not go unnoticed. The public reaction from the grandstands initially left both the McLaren driver and the “Mayor” of IndyCar interjected. Only later came the explanations to the’incident, which the new Formula 1 drivers world championship leader nevertheless wanted to dismiss to the sender.

It was a Mexican journalist himself, Carlos Jalife of ‘Fast Mag’ who said that local Formula 1 fans developed a’dislike for Norris at the Italian Grand Prix run last September. At Monza, as is well known, Norris finished ahead of Piastri because of a McLaren team order. A decision that in Mexico would still not be digested to this day.

This justification, however, does not seem to have impressed Norris. “People can do what they want, and if they want to boo they have the right to boo. I sincerely think so – said McLaren’s Englishman -That&#8217s how sport works as well, personally, though, when the public challenges me I can&#8217t stop laughing. I don&#8217t know why, but that&#8217s the way it is. Then if they want to keep doing it, let them do it. I would rather they didn&#8217t, but if that&#8217s the way it has to be I have no problem”.

Norris then felt compelled to return to the Monza episode: “In McLaren, as a team, we always try to act in the most correct way. Even last year in Hungary I could have won, but I had to let Oscar through and he won a race where he deserved to be first. In Monza nothing different happened, I was damaged by a team decision that made him pit first and in that case I deserved to be in front. People then are free to think what they believe”.

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