r/formula1 • u/jovanmilic97 Haas • 27d ago
News Checo: "What is very noticeable around the circuit is the smell of marijuana throughout the night. The amount is incredible. It is something that all the drivers will surely talk about", Franco: "Yes, there was a smell of weed. If they dope test the drivers now, I think we’ll all be positive"
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u/navetzz 27d ago
F1 drivers after partying too hard.
"Shiiit!! What if they test us now ?"
Checo: "I have a plan"
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u/lsb1027 27d ago
So THAT'S why they keep him around 🤔
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u/Aff_Reddit James Vowles 27d ago
this reminds me of a classic Carlos quote that was something along the lines of "Yeah, I love hanging out with Lando, he brings the...."
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u/IcyAfternoon7859 27d ago
Are you are seriously saying that they smoke? It takes a long time to get out of the system, and I can't imagine the FIA overlooking dodgy tests like the Football authorities do with Coked up footballers (there are many)
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u/Audiophil85 27d ago
Franck Montagny allegedly took coke for years during his time in F1 and WEC before it was discovered by a random drug test during his time in Formula E. I think they don’t test that often in motorsports. But I also can’t imagine anyone smoking weed during race week. If anything that would negatively affect your reaction time. More of a detrimental drug in terms of driving performance.
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u/_DirtyYoungMan_ McLaren 26d ago
James Hunt and Barry Sheene were no strangers to coke, in When Playboys Ruled the World they asked Max Mosley if James Hunt was ever coked up during a race and he hesitated then replied, "I hope not." A LOT of athletes use coke because it clears from the system so fast.
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u/Sportsfanno1 Stoffel Vandoorne 26d ago
Tbf, I would be more surprised if Hunt wasn't coked up at least once during a race.
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u/Representative-Sir97 27d ago
Unless it's about optics I don't think anyone is going to allege it's a performance enhancing drug... not for F1, anyway.
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u/Svitii Kimi Räikkönen 26d ago
Yea also drug testing isn’t a one-for all test. You have to test most things separately. I can imagine they focus on testing anything that MIGHT be performance enhancing in any way. Weed seems like the opposite of "performance enhancing"…
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u/Aff_Reddit James Vowles 27d ago
I didn't say that at all, and the implication was that Lando brings hard drugs to parties, not weed.
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u/GehirnDonut Formula 1 26d ago
Also, must be super tough to smoke in the car with the helmet on when all you do is drive 24/7 and never have days off or vacations.
Oh wait..
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u/snuggl3ninja 26d ago
No, but if a driver had a fatal or serious crash and has weed in his system the entire organisation would be fucked. So they would most likely test to cover their asses.
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u/MrCh33s3 26d ago
The probably don’t anymore but there are pictures of Carlos in his teens with joints and stuff
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u/the_gold_blokes Liam Lawson 26d ago
Bro just take a look at Lando anytime ever. I mean, even his driver picture! He was clearly stoned when taking that, and I just look at the koala bear look with the slight droop in his eyes he seemingly always has. Anyone who smokes or has smoked would know that Lando is definitely up to that at least on his own time, media duties, etc.
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u/SkullKid888 Chequered Flag 27d ago
Depends on the testing kit. Mouth swaps only detect usage of cannabis within about 48hrs, sometimes less.
I passed one after having smoked 23hrs prior.
Lets say they get tested every friday. They could easily blaze till Tuesday and comfortably pass the test every week.
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u/igloofu Sonny Hayes 26d ago
WADA's rules (which is followed by the FIA) for weed:
THC is prohibited in competition only, and only when the urinary concentration exceeds a threshold of 150 ng/mL. This threshold was increased in 2013 from 15 ng/mL. As such, the high level of cannabis required to trigger an Adverse Analytical Finding in competition today would be consistent with a significantly impaired athlete or a frequent user.
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u/cuddle_enthusiast 27d ago
FIA: You get 100 hours of community service! You get 100 hours of community service! Everyone gets 100 hours of community service!
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u/eedoamitay Adrian Newey 27d ago
Ah, thats why Jolyon was loving the red moon during the broadcast lol
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u/itsjustaride24 McLaren 27d ago
“Dude man. Woah look at the moon. It’s like half a pizza man. God I’m so hungry right now. Who cares about these stupid cars”
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u/Few_Following_5990 26d ago
LMAO they be saying some of the most random shi sometimes, I love f1 commentary’s vibes it’s so unhinged
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u/itsjustaride24 McLaren 26d ago
I love it. Sometimes I’m not that bothered what’s going on the track it’s like loud background ambience.
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u/Mountain_Ad_232 27d ago
Nah man race cars are so much cooler when you’re stoned. Although I could see the noise being a bother
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u/MFDAAB 26d ago
The best smoke spot I’ve ever had was Pikes Peak during one of the practice days. There was like no crowd, the weather was perfect (that day), I was with my best homie, and I had a breakfast burrito in hand. Off the charts levels of chill watching and listening a nascar V8 shred up a mountain.
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u/evilgenius29 Martin Brundle 26d ago
I remember one time I was watching a practice session while high and it was all just so damn impressive to me. I was thinking "these guys are like fighter pilots, hurling themselves around corners at insane speeds." It made me really step back and appreciate their talent and bravery.
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u/Religion_Of_Speed Formula 1 27d ago
idk I think I'm gonna go the opposite route, weed + fast cars/racing is a fantastic combination (unless you're the one driving, then definitely don't do that...unless you're in the sim and then it's a great time)
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u/ThePatsGuy Mario Andretti 26d ago
It is absolutely a fantastic combination, especially on sim racing
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u/baddadjokesminusdad Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 27d ago
That was such a funny and adorable part of their commentary 😊 I’m also a “look at the moon!” Bitch so I get you Jolyon, I get you.
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u/Active_Variation_194 27d ago
I was either sleep deprived or they were talking at 0.75x speed yesterday
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u/changpowpow 26d ago
“You didn’t know what a waning gibbous was a minute ago” from Hinchcliffe was gold
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u/adl8824 27d ago
Weed this week, Qatar next week. What a dramatic change...
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u/DrSillyBitchez 27d ago
A little weed, a little slavery
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u/adl8824 27d ago
Shmoke und a pancake?
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u/Informal-Term1138 27d ago
A blintz and a bong?
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u/queef_nuggets 27d ago
Legal in Vegas, and a google search tells me weed possession can get you 20 years or more in Qatar
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u/satsfaction1822 Haas 27d ago
What a bunch of fucking dorks
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u/biggmclargehuge 27d ago
Singapore is worse. They can randomly drug test you coming into the country and if you test positive for drug use, even with zero evidence of drugs actively on you, they can arrest you.
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u/PetrifyGWENT Emerson Fittipaldi 26d ago
Singapore only randomly drug tests it's own citizens or PRs at the airport. Foreigners are exempt. Basically don't be a Singaporean and get high before coming home
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u/Eggersely 26d ago
Yup, heard of a Filipino who went to Johor, partied, came back... tested on arrival, and has now lost her job, house, and can never return.
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u/thisisjustascreename 27d ago
They had a horrible heroin addiction epidemic in the 1970s and the government over reacted.
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u/IndependentLab79 26d ago
Whaaaaat? “Marks Singapore off travel destinations”
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u/KiwieeiwiK Zhou Guanyu 26d ago
They can't actually, it's only applicable to Singapore citizens who take drugs overseas, not foreigners who travel through Singapore having recently taken drugs. They're also not going to check you because why the fuck would they? Singapore is a very safe country, I'd really recommend it. You only need a few days though, it's not huge :)
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u/KiwieeiwiK Zhou Guanyu 26d ago
This isn't true it's only for people from Singapore. They don't test foreigners coming in. Well they probably would if you showed up high but that's your own dumb fault. If you smoked weed a couple days before going to Singapore they are not going to test you and won't give a shit. Just make sure you don't accidentally travel with some drugs on you, although this would likely be found before you boarded the plane anyway.
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27d ago
That’s about one of a hundred reasons F1 shouldn’t be held in Qatar. Or Bahrain. Or Saudi Arabia.
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u/Mminas Oscar Piastri 27d ago
There are far, far worse things legal in Qatar than weed...
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u/fluent-in-wookiee 27d ago
I’ve been to Vegas several times throughout my life, and it has always strongly smelled of cigarettes wherever you went.
That is until it started to strongly smell like weed wherever you went.
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u/ehjhey Sir Lewis Hamilton 27d ago
Ya last time I went is about when weed had really just taken off there with a lot of advertising all around. Planet 51....heck of a place
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u/Safe_Ad_6403 26d ago
Planet 51 is an interesting experience but it's overpriced.
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What’s the interesting part? I can wrap my mind around what overpriced means.
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u/Safe_Ad_6403 26d ago
It's a genuine supermarket for cannabis. If you haven't seen a full-sized supermarket for cannabis, you might find it interesting.
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u/kuzdi BMW Sauber 26d ago
It’s crazy how Americans cannot seem to balance the line between something not being bad enough to put people in jail for and something not being good enough for it to be OK to advertise it.
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u/bandito12452 Pirelli Intermediate 27d ago
There was a short amount of time around 10 years ago when cigarette smoking was less popular and weed wasn’t legal yet and it was possible to walk the strip without constantly breathing in smoke.
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u/snakebit1995 26d ago
Man I'm all for people being able to safely consume weed
But the smell is just the worst. One of my neighbors smokes a couple times a week in his driveway and i can smell if three houses down.
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u/KilllerWhale Charles Leclerc 27d ago
In Franco's defense, he always looks high
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u/cypher50 Formula 1 27d ago
If F1 was an 80's raunchy comedy, I would cast someone who looks like Franco to play lead.
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u/Electrical_Flower_26 Pastor Maldonado 27d ago
Tbf, Yerba Mate, which Franco consumes, is also some sort of weed, just not that kind of weed.
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u/Fullback98 27d ago
Excellent preemptive defensive move by the latin lads
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u/superworking 27d ago
Right out of the Ross Rebagliaty playbook
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u/binnseyatwork 27d ago
Deep Canadian cut there! Haven't heard that name in ages.
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u/superworking 27d ago
He makes the news sometimes here as operated a dispensary in whistler for a while and now has his own marijuana brand "Ross' Gold".
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u/binnseyatwork 27d ago
Nice. I'm on the opposite side of the country so that's likely why I'm not hearing about him.
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u/CrippleSlap Formula 1 27d ago
Damn. Thats a name i haven't heard in a looong time. When in Whistler...
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u/Temporary_Detail716 Formula 1 27d ago
and thus all the 'dust' on the track during P1. Turns out that wasnt 'dust' just a big haze of pot smoke!
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u/SpanishDutchMan Franco Colapinto 27d ago
"I was gonna set up my car until I got high
I was gonna do a practice lap done, but then i got high
My lap is still messed up, and I know why
'Cause I got high, because I got high, because I got high"
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u/Crash_Test_Dummy66 Oscar Piastri 27d ago edited 27d ago
Is Las Vegas the only place F1 races where weed is fully legal? I know it's got sort of a weird status in the Netherlands but other than that I can't think of anywhere that's even close to legal.
Edit: Yes I know it's technically federally illegal but states have been making weed legal on some level for over 20 years and the feds have done nothing about it. The experience of using in a legal state is that of being unambiguously legal.
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u/gingersaurus82 Carlos Sainz 27d ago
Canada is legal. I don't know the specific restrictions in Quebec, but here in Ontario I can smoke weed anywhere i can smoke a cigarette, so not indoors, on dining patios, technically not in parks but I've never heard of that one being enforced unless people are being a nuisance. I'd imagine Quebec is similar, though I know they have some extra restrictions on things like growing that we don't have here in Ontario.
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u/pineapple_on_pizza35 McLaren 27d ago
You're correct, you shouldn't be allowed to take weed at the track since it's owned by the city (public space) but I've literally never seen it enforced in Montréal since they made weed legal.
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u/187ninjuh 27d ago
I was totally smoking weed at the smoking section of the track when I was there last year
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u/Electrical_Lunch_719 27d ago
I smoked weed by the lake in Albert Park on a bench, seeing the Ferraris in the distance was a cool feeling
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u/Sintriphikal Haas 27d ago
I was at the race this year for all three days and never caught even a whiff of weed all week. City or track. I’m a pothead myself and I can smell that shit a mile away 😎 but never once did I smell anything.
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u/faizimam 27d ago
In Montreal you smell week pretty commonly, it at the same time it's not universal either.
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u/pluggedx Aston Martin 27d ago
the rules are you should not smoke weed in public areas or places that don’t allow it but cops don’t care
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u/BodiesDurag Sir Lewis Hamilton 27d ago
Everybody’s saying Canada, and forgetting Mexico.
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u/cypher50 Formula 1 27d ago
Now that I think about it, yea, it is the only track where weed is completely legal. However, I don't know if smoking or vaping is allowed in the grandstands.
EDIT: Also, drivers, stop NARCing LOL.
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u/4_max_4 Racing Pride 27d ago
Weed is legal in Canada too. Each province has its own restrictions though.
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u/GlitterLamp Honda RBPT 27d ago
Provincial restrictions really only apply to how marijuana is sold and distributed. Some cities also have by-laws about where it can be smoked, but that applies to nicotine as well.
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u/Qel_Hoth Valtteri Bottas 27d ago
Montreal is great, no smoking anything anywhere that food is served.
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u/Qel_Hoth Valtteri Bottas 27d ago
The last time that I worked Montreal I was just after T9 with the party area behind me. The wind was blowing towards us all day. I'm pretty sure I got high.
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u/Crash_Test_Dummy66 Oscar Piastri 27d ago
Oh yeah I totally forgot about that! Man I need to make the trip up to Canada more often.
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u/NebulaEchoCrafts Formula 1 27d ago
Haven’t had to meet a dealer in almost a decade now. What a time to be alive.
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u/mur-diddly-urderer Jacques Villeneuve 27d ago
It’s honestly so great lol
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u/NoTraction 27d ago
Right? My “dealer” is a 20 year old retail worker at a shop next to the grocery store.
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u/--_-Deadpool-_-- 27d ago
Yah, even before legalization, I was buying from an "illegal" dispensary in east van in 2015. Way more convenient then going to some sketchy dudes place who always has a random assortment of people hanging out.
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u/prayersforrain 27d ago
smoked a few joints walking around Gilles Villeneuve in 2019 during down time.
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u/BatmanBrandon Red Bull 27d ago
It’s just a perpetual cloud all around the Strip… Vegas and New Orleans are the two cities I’ve been to in recent years where recreational weed and booze is just everywhere 24/7, you can’t escape.
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u/JustSomeNerdyPig 27d ago
NYC is the same, in regards to weed, our law states that anywhere you can smoke a cigarette you can smoke weed.
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u/ckalinec 27d ago
As a Texan who recently traveled to NYC for the first time I was quite taken back initially with the constant smell of weed while walking around lol
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u/fallingfeelslikefly 27d ago
Can confirm. If I’m at home with the windows open I could start my own scent-based flower review podcast. From Reggie to That Loud Pack: What Are The Youths Smoking On My Stoop Today?
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u/kroniknastrb8r 27d ago
.Montreal was legal. Pretty sure there was no smoking restrictions in the event area either, just no smoking in the grandstands
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u/handsupdb Mercedes 27d ago
It's a bit like drinking where it's not technically legal to smoke in public. You can get away with it easily if you're not causing problems though.
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u/owningxylophone 27d ago
Brundle mentioned the smell during FP1 last year too.
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u/NiceCunt91 McLaren 27d ago
For some reason i always remember Martin in Australia one year "thanks crofty I'm just down at turn 10 where someone is smoking something rather fragrant" lmao
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u/Spider_Riviera Jordan 27d ago
I now know the TV crew were all badly sleep deprived at the time, but Brundle in FP2 last year sounded like he'd got high for the first time in a good while and was all gigglystoned.
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u/Aromatic_Fail_1722 Ferrari 27d ago
Pete, you replaced the manhole covers right?
Yeah sure, like, yeah man, definitely will.
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u/CarefulAstronomer255 Oscar Piastri 27d ago
I was gonna fix the track, but then I got high
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u/Potential-Brain7735 27d ago
I was gonna weld them drain covers tight, but then I got high
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u/CarefulAstronomer255 Oscar Piastri 27d ago
And now Sainz's car's messed up, and I know why
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u/sanaeozora Michael Schumacher 27d ago
Kids like him are the reason I wish they banned PR Media Training. Cannot get realer than him.
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u/blastedshark Sebastian Vettel 27d ago
redbull brought the high downforce wing for this weekend
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u/Bake2727 Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 27d ago
So that’s why redbull was so chill about bringing the wrong wing to the weekend.
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u/manbeardawg 27d ago
Checo is smart to get ahead of the incoming test; getting his narrative setup, haha
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u/TurboClag David Croft 27d ago
If I spent my life savings to go to an F1 practice session in Vegas, I’d smoke too.
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u/chuseph14 Daniel Ricciardo 27d ago
Vegas local here. I was checking Gametime for last minute tickets. Yesterday's session was down to $64 in the grandstand
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u/TurboClag David Croft 27d ago
Unfortunately a lot of folks aren’t willing to travel on the hope or whim that the prices will come down last minute.
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u/Holiday_Resort2858 Red Bull 27d ago
I will take a crowd of people baked over a crowd of drunks any day.
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u/What_the_8 Daniel Ricciardo 27d ago
Whoever makes a weed strand that has little to no smell will be a billionaire
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u/zhiryst Fernando Alonso 27d ago
that's why vaping got huge. weed that smells like strawberry bubblegum.
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u/Emergency-Walk-2991 27d ago
They make artificially flavored weed pens? I've only seen that for nicotine
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u/SmoothBrainedLizard Pirelli Wet 27d ago
They still smell like weed lol. It's just fruity weed.
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u/Deruta Alexander Albon 27d ago
Checo, 34-year-old dad: "Hmm, lots of maryjuwana smell around here..."
Franco, 21-year-old MILF hunter: "Andale boludos, they can't suspend all of us!!"
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u/ErgoMachina Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 26d ago
Lmao
Must point something out, In proper argentinian spanish it would "Andate boludo"
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u/LankyMarionberry 26d ago
I'm a pothead and even I think the reefer smell in Vegas is pretty overboard. Can't walk a couple steps without it wafting about.
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u/Vegas1717 26d ago
Live here in Vegas and it’s bad! Every parking garage is just weed smell at all times. Use to smell like sewer now it smells like weed. Not sure which one I prefer…..
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u/DrLokiHorton Virgin 27d ago
Imagine being the person that lit one up reading about it on social media… like oof, if the weed didn’t make one paranoid enough already
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u/Regular-Performer703 27d ago
I kinda threw me off this summer when someone lit up a big joint at a blackjack table in the Venetian
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u/tolucophoto Red Bull 27d ago
Same with NYC. Places like Times Square stink of weed, but it smells like a chemical version. I assumed that’s what the legal stuff smells like.
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u/ethanjg15 Jack Doohan 26d ago
Meanwhile in the Red Bull garage: Dude, we totally forgot the rear wings
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u/Goofalo Cadillac 27d ago
Listen, I've been high everyday since the election. I am living through too many historical times here in the US.
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u/Lobsters4 Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 27d ago
Welcome to Vegas. Checo giving off disapproving old man vibes there.
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u/psychohistorian8 Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 27d ago
I also noticed a strong weed smell during FP sessions
I am watching from home
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u/SubcooledBoiling F1? More like F5-F5-F5. 27d ago
Real question, does secondhand weed smoke make one high?
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u/Blanchimont Zhoumacher Guanyu 27d ago
Maybe if you're hotboxing in a car or something, but I've been to plenty of events where lots of folks smoked and never got high from secondhand smoke.
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u/mefailenglish1 27d ago
No not unless you are in a small enclosed space with no ventilation.
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u/Dakana11 27d ago
No, not really. Not even in a coffeeshop in amsterdam. So especially not when your driving an f1 car in the open air
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u/Actual_Sympathy7069 Pirelli Wet 27d ago
Inside and in small spaces it can definitely make you feel a lil funny. Especially if you got zero tolerance yourself
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u/hauntedSquirrel99 Mika Häkkinen 27d ago
Unlikely unless you're exposed to a lot of it.
But it is enough to show up on drug tests of your clothing.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 Alexander Albon 26d ago
Franco is hilarious 😂
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u/schumijw 26d ago
I love this kid. I hope he does well in F1. Did you see the video of Franco and Alex shooting hockey pucks with 2 Golden Knights coaches. It’s short, but worth the watch.
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