{"id":4786,"date":"2026-11-01T16:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T19:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T19:59:20","slug":"video-stroll-ignores-young-fans-during-mexican-gp-drivers-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/f1\/video-stroll-ignores-young-fans-during-mexican-gp-drivers-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Stroll ignores young fans during Mexican GP drivers&#8217; presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video class=\"video-js vjs-big-play-centered\" data-gp-vjs=\"1\" controls src=\"https:\/\/grandepremio-portal.b-cdn.net\/2026\/11\/Stroll-Mexico.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Stroll drew attention for apparently ignoring children<\/strong> during the drivers&#8217; presentation (Video: F1 TV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lance Stroll drew attention for apparently ignoring children<\/strong> during the drivers&#8217; presentation ahead of the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fernando Alonso, by contrast, returned the children&#8217;s greetings<\/strong>, touching their outstretched hands as he passed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The contrasting reactions were captured on video<\/strong>, although Stroll has not publicly explained his behaviour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aston Martin teammates Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso attracted attention for contrasting reactions to young fans during the drivers&#8217; presentation ahead of Sunday&#8217;s (November 1) Mexico City Grand Prix. <strong>While Alonso greeted children by touching their outstretched hands, Stroll walked past without acknowledging them<\/strong>, according to footage recorded at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video shows children waiting along the route used by the drivers during the pre-race ceremony, extending their hands in the hope of greeting the Formula 1 competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alonso responded by reaching towards the children and exchanging hand taps<\/strong>, creating a noticeably different scene from that involving his Canadian teammate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stroll, meanwhile, continued walking without making the same gesture, despite passing close to the young spectators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The footage does not establish why Stroll chose not to interact with the children, and there has been no public explanation from the driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aston Martin teammates face difficult Mexican GP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The episode occurred shortly before a challenging race for Aston Martin, which had struggled throughout the Mexican Grand Prix weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alonso qualified 18th after <a href=\"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/f1\/fernando-alonso-stops-in-mexico-f1-qualifying-after-aston-martin-orders-retirement\/\">an ERS-related problem forced him to stop during Q1<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stroll was also eliminated in the opening qualifying segment, leaving both Aston Martin drivers towards the back of the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The race begins at 14:00 local time, with <a href=\"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/f1\/mexico-f1-grid-changes-again-lawson-sent-to-back-as-hamilton-leads-and-antonelli-eyes-title\/\">Lewis Hamilton starting from pole for Ferrari<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GRANDE PR\u00caMIO<\/strong> is following every session of the Mexican Grand Prix this weekend, with breaking news, full coverage and real-time updates in its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/f1\/\">Formula 1 section<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video from the pre-race drivers&#8217; presentation at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez shows contrasting reactions from Aston Martin teammates Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll as children reached out to greet them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1020318774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"42wp_featured_image_caption":"Lance Stroll","42wp_featured_image_credits":"Aston Martin","42wp_featured_video":"","42wp_ai_content_disclaimer":"","42wp_is_ai_content":false,"42wp_featured_image_hidden":false,"42wp_authors_list":[{"id":7,"location":""}],"footnotes":"","42wp_hide_from_automatic":false,"42wp_breaking_news":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[100,101,122,963],"42wp_author":[7],"class_list":["post-4786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","tag-aston-martin","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-lance-stroll","tag-mexican-grand-prix","42wp_author-victor-martins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4787,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions\/4787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020318774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"42wp_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/42wp_author?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}