Max Verstappen makes 'high in the car' claim as he speaks out on weed at Las Vegas GP

Max Verstappen was near to rue the odor of marijuana successful Las Vegas arsenic the Red Bull operator joked that helium was "quite precocious successful the car" during qualifying connected Saturday

Max Verstappen hilariously claimed helium was "quite precocious successful the car" owed to the beardown scent of marijuana during his Las Vegas Grand Prix qualifying drive.

After sealing 4th connected the grid and crucially outpacing F1 rubric rival Lando Norris, the Red Bull ace was 1 of respective drivers who wafted complaints astir the odor of cannabis, which is simply a ineligible substance successful the authorities of Nevada. Sergio Perez and Franco Colapinto mentioned the pungent aroma connected Friday, and Verstappen echoed their sentiments the pursuing day.

"Today you smelled it rather well. I was rather precocious successful the car," helium joked to Dutch outlet Telegraaf. "It's not ideal, due to the fact that you tin besides odor it portion driving and it's rather extreme."

The racing world's strict anti-doping rules forbid cause use, but there's nary proposition of immoderate operator coming to harm from the Sin City circuit's airs. While cannabis, which is simply a B-class banned substance successful the UK, is ineligible successful Nevada, F1 fans are prohibited from bringing the cause to the circuit.

Nonetheless, galore evidently sneaked their idiosyncratic supplies past security, and Colapinto playfully suggested a imaginable headache for officials. "Yes, determination was a odor of weed," the Williams operator confirmed, earlier quipping: "If they dope [test] the drivers now, I deliberation we'll each trial positive, I curse - erstwhile we each trial positive, determination volition beryllium a mess."

Red Bull's Perez said: "What is precise noticeable astir the circuit is the odor of marijuana passim the night. I'm a spot bushed of it already - the magnitude is incredible. It's thing each the drivers volition decidedly speech about."

Meanwhile, his team-mate Verstappen remained upbeat contempt the antithetic distraction and expressed contentment with the team's performance. "We tried to bash the champion we could," the Dutchman told Sky Sports F1.

"We worked good together. We tried a batch of antithetic things to spot what was the close direction. I deliberation what we did was the close absorption but inactive intelligibly not capable to combat for pole. I'm inactive rather happy. We are inactive successful beforehand of McLaren, which for maine is simply a spot of a astonishment but I'm rather blessed with however qualifying went and my laps."

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