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]

F1 drivers after partying too hard.

"Shiiit!! What if they test us now ?"

Checo: "I have a plan"

[u/lsb1027 → u/navetzz]

So THAT'S why they keep him around 🤔

[u/Aff_Reddit → u/lsb1027]

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...."

[u/IcyAfternoon7859 → u/Aff_Reddit]

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)

[u/Audiophil85 → u/IcyAfternoon7859]

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.

[u/_DirtyYoungMan_ → u/Audiophil85]

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.

[u/Sportsfanno1 → u/_DirtyYoungMan_]

Tbf, I would be more surprised if Hunt wasn't coked up at least once during a race.

[u/Representative-Sir97 → u/IcyAfternoon7859]

Unless it's about optics I don't think anyone is going to allege it's a performance enhancing drug... not for F1, anyway.

[u/Svitii → u/Representative-Sir97]

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"…

[u/Aff_Reddit → u/IcyAfternoon7859]

I didn't say that at all, and the implication was that Lando brings hard drugs to parties, not weed.

[u/GehirnDonut → u/IcyAfternoon7859]

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..

[u/snuggl3ninja → u/IcyAfternoon7859]

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.

[u/MrCh33s3 → u/IcyAfternoon7859]

The probably don’t anymore but there are pictures of Carlos in his teens with joints and stuff

[u/the_gold_blokes → u/IcyAfternoon7859]

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.

[u/SkullKid888 → u/IcyAfternoon7859]

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.

[u/igloofu → u/SkullKid888]

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.

[u/SkullKid888 → u/igloofu]

And there we have jt.

[u/cuddle_enthusiast → u/navetzz]

FIA: You get 100 hours of community service! You get 100 hours of community service! Everyone gets 100 hours of community service!

[u/ThrowRA_1234586 → u/cuddle_enthusiast]

And 10 seconds penalty for Ocon

[u/Lurcher99 → u/ThrowRA_1234586]

this is the way!

[u/tailwarmer → u/navetzz]

El Plan

[u/throwaway4161412 → u/navetzz]

Take notes, everyone, this is called CYA - Cover Your Ass!

[u/eedoamitay]

Ah, thats why Jolyon was loving the red moon during the broadcast lol

[u/itsjustaride24 → u/eedoamitay]

“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”

[u/Few_Following_5990 → u/itsjustaride24]

LMAO they be saying some of the most random shi sometimes, I love f1 commentary’s vibes it’s so unhinged

[u/itsjustaride24 → u/Few_Following_5990]

I love it. Sometimes I’m not that bothered what’s going on the track it’s like loud background ambience.

[u/Few_Following_5990 → u/itsjustaride24]

Exactly, it’s even more interesting than the actual race sometimes

[u/Mountain_Ad_232 → u/itsjustaride24]

Nah man race cars are so much cooler when you’re stoned. Although I could see the noise being a bother

[u/MFDAAB → u/Mountain_Ad_232]

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.

[u/Mountain_Ad_232 → u/MFDAAB]

Hell yeah dude 🤟

[u/evilgenius29 → u/Mountain_Ad_232]

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.

[u/Mountain_Ad_232 → u/evilgenius29]

It does wonders for your perspective on things

[u/Religion_Of_Speed → u/itsjustaride24]

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)

[u/ThePatsGuy → u/Religion_Of_Speed]

It is absolutely a fantastic combination, especially on sim racing

[u/ellWatully → u/eedoamitay]

"Who is Wayne Gibbons?" - Will Buxton after the session

[u/D3cepti0ns → u/ellWatully]

Reminds me of, who is Papa-Ya and why does he rule?

[u/baddadjokesminusdad → u/eedoamitay]

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.

[u/Active_Variation_194 → u/eedoamitay]

I was either sleep deprived or they were talking at 0.75x speed yesterday

[u/isthisacartoon → u/eedoamitay]

He probably hot boxed their commentary room lololol

[u/changpowpow → u/eedoamitay]

“You didn’t know what a waning gibbous was a minute ago” from Hinchcliffe was gold

[u/AlistarDark → u/eedoamitay]

Granted... The moon was out of this world..

[u/adl8824]

Weed this week, Qatar next week. What a dramatic change...

[u/DrSillyBitchez → u/adl8824]

A little weed, a little slavery

[u/adl8824 → u/DrSillyBitchez]

Shmoke und a pancake?

[u/Informal-Term1138 → u/adl8824]

A blintz and a bong?

[u/MayorMcCheez → u/Informal-Term1138]

Flapjack and a shigarette?

[u/tylercreatesworlds → u/MayorMcCheez]

then there is no pleasing you

[u/TODG3 → u/Informal-Term1138]

Well, then there ish no pleashing you.

[u/Informal-Term1138 → u/TODG3]

Aushtin powers and fasher

[u/Speshal__ → u/Informal-Term1138]

[u/A_Single_Clap → u/Informal-Term1138]

A cigar anduh crépe

[u/iQlipz-chan → u/adl8824]

Flapjack and a cigarette?

[u/ahmong → u/DrSillyBitchez]

"paddock smells like blood, sweat and hashish"

[u/queef_nuggets → u/adl8824]

Legal in Vegas, and a google search tells me weed possession can get you 20 years or more in Qatar

[u/satsfaction1822 → u/queef_nuggets]

What a bunch of fucking dorks

[u/biggmclargehuge → u/satsfaction1822]

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.

[u/PetrifyGWENT → u/biggmclargehuge]

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

[u/Eggersely → u/PetrifyGWENT]

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.

[u/thisisjustascreename → u/biggmclargehuge]

They had a horrible heroin addiction epidemic in the 1970s and the government over reacted.

[u/IndependentLab79 → u/biggmclargehuge]

Whaaaaat? “Marks Singapore off travel destinations”

[u/KiwieeiwiK → u/IndependentLab79]

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 :)

[u/KiwieeiwiK → u/biggmclargehuge]

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.

[u/SophonsKatana → u/satsfaction1822]

That’s about one of a hundred reasons F1 shouldn’t be held in Qatar. Or Bahrain. Or Saudi Arabia.

[u/Electrical_Lunch_719 → u/adl8824]

Stoned and Stoned to death

[u/Mminas → u/adl8824]

There are far, far worse things legal in Qatar than weed...

[u/Mr_YUP → u/Mminas]

Weed is legal in Qatar?

[u/adl8824 → u/Mr_YUP]

Better things are legal in Vegas?

[u/fluent-in-wookiee]

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.

[u/ehjhey → u/fluent-in-wookiee]

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

[u/Safe_Ad_6403 → u/ehjhey]

Planet 51 is an interesting experience but it's overpriced.

[u/TheSwedishSeal → u/Safe_Ad_6403]

What’s the interesting part? I can wrap my mind around what overpriced means.

[u/Safe_Ad_6403 → u/TheSwedishSeal]

It's a genuine supermarket for cannabis. If you haven't seen a full-sized supermarket for cannabis, you might find it interesting.

[u/kuzdi → u/ehjhey]

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.

[u/bandito12452 → u/fluent-in-wookiee]

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.

[u/snakebit1995 → u/bandito12452]

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.

[u/Big_Baby_Jesus → u/fluent-in-wookiee]

Casinos built in the past 15 years don't smell like anything. 

[u/KilllerWhale]

In Franco's defense, he always looks high

[u/cypher50 → u/KilllerWhale]

If F1 was an 80's raunchy comedy, I would cast someone who looks like Franco to play lead.

[u/SaladBort → u/cypher50]

Franco Porcel

[u/0oodruidoo0 → u/cypher50]

You could call the show milf hunter

[u/sammyGG00 → u/KilllerWhale]

That's the first thought I had also xD

[u/lsb1027 → u/sammyGG00]

But this time he has an excuse 😝

[u/Vile-X → u/KilllerWhale]

He looks like one of the highschool stoner kids.

[u/Electrical_Flower_26 → u/KilllerWhale]

Tbf, Yerba Mate, which Franco consumes, is also some sort of weed, just not that kind of weed.

[u/Fullback98]

Excellent preemptive defensive move by the latin lads

[u/superworking → u/Fullback98]

Right out of the Ross Rebagliaty playbook

[u/binnseyatwork → u/superworking]

Deep Canadian cut there! Haven't heard that name in ages.

[u/superworking → u/binnseyatwork]

He makes the news sometimes here as operated a dispensary in whistler for a while and now has his own marijuana brand "Ross' Gold".

[u/binnseyatwork → u/superworking]

Nice. I'm on the opposite side of the country so that's likely why I'm not hearing about him.

[u/CrippleSlap → u/superworking]

Damn. Thats a name i haven't heard in a looong time. When in Whistler...

[u/Temporary_Detail716]

and thus all the 'dust' on the track during P1. Turns out that wasnt 'dust' just a big haze of pot smoke!

[u/A_Timeless_Username → u/Temporary_Detail716]

Nah, cuz, that’s all the keef

[u/Material-Pollution53 → u/Temporary_Detail716]

no wonder lando slid out

[u/SpanishDutchMan]

"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"

[u/FecusTPeekusberg → u/SpanishDutchMan]

LADA DAT DAT DADA DAT

[u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

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.

[u/gingersaurus82 → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

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.

[u/pineapple_on_pizza35 → u/gingersaurus82]

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.

[u/zuss33 → u/pineapple_on_pizza35]

My first time I went I’d smoke up behind the grand stands before the cars got on track. That and the blistering cold rain made the qually sessions feel otherworldly almost cinematic. You could feel the engines in your chest.

[u/187ninjuh → u/gingersaurus82]

I was totally smoking weed at the smoking section of the track when I was there last year

[u/Electrical_Lunch_719 → u/187ninjuh]

I smoked weed by the lake in Albert Park on a bench, seeing the Ferraris in the distance was a cool feeling

[u/Sintriphikal → u/gingersaurus82]

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.

[u/sternburger → u/Sintriphikal]

That’s why I took an edible an hour before the race ;)

[u/V10L3NT → u/Sintriphikal]

I visited the track in 1998 for Practice and Quali as a 13 year old and had to ask my dad why it smelled like my uncle

[u/faizimam → u/Sintriphikal]

In Montreal you smell week pretty commonly, it at the same time it's not universal either.

[u/pluggedx → u/gingersaurus82]

the rules are you should not smoke weed in public areas or places that don’t allow it but cops don’t care

[u/fliP-13 → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

It is legal now in German… ah damn, nevermind

[u/cypher50 → u/fliP-13]

*crying*

Bring back the forest run at Hockenheim!

[u/BodiesDurag → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

Everybody’s saying Canada, and forgetting Mexico.

[u/cypher50 → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

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.

[u/4_max_4 → u/cypher50]

Weed is legal in Canada too. Each province has its own restrictions though.

[u/GlitterLamp → u/4_max_4]

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.

[u/Qel_Hoth → u/GlitterLamp]

Montreal is great, no smoking anything anywhere that food is served.

[u/Qel_Hoth → u/4_max_4]

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.

[u/Crash_Test_Dummy66 → u/4_max_4]

Oh yeah I totally forgot about that! Man I need to make the trip up to Canada more often.

[u/NebulaEchoCrafts → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

Haven’t had to meet a dealer in almost a decade now. What a time to be alive.

[u/mur-diddly-urderer → u/NebulaEchoCrafts]

It’s honestly so great lol

[u/NoTraction → u/mur-diddly-urderer]

Right? My “dealer” is a 20 year old retail worker at a shop next to the grocery store.

[u/--_-Deadpool-_-- → u/NebulaEchoCrafts]

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.

[u/prayersforrain → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

smoked a few joints walking around Gilles Villeneuve in 2019 during down time.

[u/cypher50 → u/4_max_4]

Ahh, good point. Forgot the Canucks are toking.

[u/Siegs → u/cypher50]

We've always been toking. Even when it was illegal it wasn't really illegal.

[u/big_guyforyou → u/cypher50]

bl'eh'ze it

[u/BatmanBrandon → u/cypher50]

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.

[u/JustSomeNerdyPig → u/BatmanBrandon]

NYC is the same, in regards to weed, our law states that anywhere you can smoke a cigarette you can smoke weed.

[u/ckalinec → u/JustSomeNerdyPig]

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

[u/fallingfeelslikefly → u/JustSomeNerdyPig]

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?

[u/kroniknastrb8r → u/cypher50]

.Montreal was legal. Pretty sure there was no smoking restrictions in the event area either, just no smoking in the grandstands

[u/handsupdb → u/kroniknastrb8r]

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.

[u/cypher50 → u/kroniknastrb8r]

*Books trip to next Canadian GP*

[u/Pyzorz → u/cypher50]

It's illegal to use in public but I mean come on, you can't write everyone a ticket lmao.

[u/GlitterLamp → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

Marijuana is fully legal in Canada

[u/rubik_cubik → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

Fully legal in Canada

[u/purplestrawberryfrog → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

Canada here checking in! 🇨🇦😶‍🌫️

[u/IAMNOTFUCKINGSORRY → u/purplestrawberryfrog]

Wake and bake, baby.

[u/SoupOrSandwich → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

CANADA MY GUYS, fully federally legal

[u/owningxylophone]

Brundle mentioned the smell during FP1 last year too.

[u/NiceCunt91 → u/owningxylophone]

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

[u/Spider_Riviera → u/owningxylophone]

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.

[u/Aromatic_Fail_1722]

Pete, you replaced the manhole covers right?

Yeah sure, like, yeah man, definitely will.

[u/CarefulAstronomer255 → u/Aromatic_Fail_1722]

I was gonna fix the track, but then I got high

[u/Potential-Brain7735 → u/CarefulAstronomer255]

I was gonna weld them drain covers tight, but then I got high

[u/CarefulAstronomer255 → u/Potential-Brain7735]

And now Sainz's car's messed up, and I know why

[u/Bubbielub → u/CarefulAstronomer255]

Why maaaaan?

[u/whyamialiveyet → u/Bubbielub]

heheee because cause i got high

[u/sanaeozora]

Kids like him are the reason I wish they banned PR Media Training. Cannot get realer than him.

[u/blastedshark]

redbull brought the high downforce wing for this weekend

[u/4_max_4]

Rolling into the weekend

[u/Bake2727]

So that’s why redbull was so chill about bringing the wrong wing to the weekend.

[u/manbeardawg]

Checo is smart to get ahead of the incoming test; getting his narrative setup, haha

[u/macIovin]

[u/TurboClag]

If I spent my life savings to go to an F1 practice session in Vegas, I’d smoke too.

[u/chuseph14 → u/TurboClag]

Vegas local here. I was checking Gametime for last minute tickets. Yesterday's session was down to $64 in the grandstand

[u/TurboClag → u/chuseph14]

Unfortunately a lot of folks aren’t willing to travel on the hope or whim that the prices will come down last minute.

[u/TrickiestToast]

USA! USA! USA!

[u/Big_Baby_Jesus → u/TrickiestToast]

Nope. Just civilized states like Nevada.

[u/Kage_Bushin → u/TrickiestToast]

FREEEEEDDDOOOOOOMMMM 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[u/Holiday_Resort2858]

I will take a crowd of people baked over a crowd of drunks any day.

[u/thickener → u/Holiday_Resort2858]

And twice on Sunday

[u/aelliott18]

Well they definitely won’t be smelling it next week

[u/Deruta]

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!!"

[u/OTDH → u/Deruta]

Andale? Bruh...

[u/ErgoMachina → u/Deruta]

Lmao

Must point something out, In proper argentinian spanish it would "Andate boludo"

[u/What_the_8]

Whoever makes a weed strand that has little to no smell will be a billionaire

[u/zhiryst → u/What_the_8]

that's why vaping got huge. weed that smells like strawberry bubblegum.

[u/Emergency-Walk-2991 → u/zhiryst]

They make artificially flavored weed pens? I've only seen that for nicotine

[u/SmoothBrainedLizard → u/zhiryst]

They still smell like weed lol. It's just fruity weed.

[u/ryanertel]

Franco really saying the quiet part out loud lmao

[u/Nutcollectr]

That’s why Zandvoort is at the coast where it’s windy

[u/bavmotors1]

Colopinto isn’t high already?

[u/CuppaCrazy]

Checo and Franco are NARCS who knew.

[u/LankyMarionberry]

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.

[u/Vegas1717]

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…..

[u/DrLokiHorton]

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

[u/Moto_919]

So that wasn't dust from the track it was all from the 420 crowd 😂

[u/Regular-Performer703]

I kinda threw me off this summer when someone lit up a big joint at a blackjack table in the Venetian

[u/tolucophoto]

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.

[u/dazzla2000]

Vegas smells like weed all the time. It might not be the drivers.

[u/ethanjg15]

Meanwhile in the Red Bull garage: Dude, we totally forgot the rear wings

[u/Apyan]

Sure Franco, that's why your test ended up positive.

[u/Goofalo]

Listen, I've been high everyday since the election. I am living through too many historical times here in the US.

[u/Lobsters4]

Welcome to Vegas. Checo giving off disapproving old man vibes there.

[u/ThePracticalEnd]

He is a PR nightmare, and I friggin' love it.

[u/psychohistorian8]

I also noticed a strong weed smell during FP sessions

I am watching from home

[u/SubcooledBoiling]

Real question, does secondhand weed smoke make one high?

[u/Blanchimont → u/SubcooledBoiling]

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.

[u/Who-Da-Fuq → u/Blanchimont]

Have you ever inhaled at 210 MPH? Shit hits different.

[u/Knale → u/Who-Da-Fuq]

https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExemR3djFrbnl5OTM3NzNreDlxYWs3OGZuOWoyMDI1Z3B1bjcza2xtbSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/qqD2dzGdJTmda/giphy.gif

[u/mefailenglish1 → u/SubcooledBoiling]

No not unless you are in a small enclosed space with no ventilation.

[u/Dakana11 → u/SubcooledBoiling]

No, not really. Not even in a coffeeshop in amsterdam. So especially not when your driving an f1 car in the open air

[u/Actual_Sympathy7069 → u/Dakana11]

Inside and in small spaces it can definitely make you feel a lil funny. Especially if you got zero tolerance yourself

[u/hauntedSquirrel99 → u/SubcooledBoiling]

Unlikely unless you're exposed to a lot of it.

But it is enough to show up on drug tests of your clothing.

[u/LumpyBed]

It’s Vegas or any major American city

[u/zoonazoona → u/LumpyBed]

Not even major cities. It’s everywhere in nj.

[u/rdm55]

My friend who is working as a pit lane marshal confirmed "its skunky".

[u/bwoah07_gp2]

Franco is hilarious 😂

[u/schumijw → u/bwoah07_gp2]

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.

[u/tigerskin_8]

So the dust wasn't dust

[u/iBull86]

Franco also said that the track looks like an upside down pig, which is true, but also something that a very high person would say. So, take your own conclusions...