FIA perform random doping tests at Jerez
“Shit, this acid is strong”
The FIA carried out random anti-doping tests during testing at Jerez last week (In 2005, F1 improved its drugs testing programme to meet World Anti-Doping Agency standards).
On Thursday at the Spanish circuit, Ferrari’s two race drivers, McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen and Toro Rosso new boy Sebastien Buemi had to report to the FIA transporter to supply urine samples, the Swiss newspaper Blick reported.
Buemi revealed that he was also tested at the 2008 Belgian Grand Prix, when he was a test driver for Red Bull.
“Some weeks later two physicians arrived at my parents’ house in Augle (Switzerland) at six in the morning and asked me for another sample.”
As far as we know, no F1 driver has ever failed a doping test. In 2002, F3000 driver Tomas Enge tested postitive for cannabis (yeah, that helps you drive faster); the points he was stripped of cost him the F3000 title that year.
The thing is, would any driver benefit from any specific drug? Amphetamines (speed etc.) might sharpen your reflexes and lower your reaction times, but your judgment would be compromised in other ways.
Sprinters, for example, just have to run fast in a sraight line. F1 drivers have a multitude of things to think about during a race weekend, quite apart from driving very fast for 60-70 laps - consider tactics, fuel, tryes, team orders, corporate obligations etc. You’d want nothing less than a clear head to deal with all that.
Do you think any drivers use performance-enhancing substances?
10 responses so far
1 A Ludlow // Dec 16, 2008 at 11:28 am
Aaaah. lil’ Lewis - so cute!
I think it would be counter-productive to do so as you pointed out above. I wonder if that includes alcohol in which case Kimi might have a few problems.
2 kate_ginny // Dec 16, 2008 at 11:40 am
actually i do believe that kimi have no centain issues with alcohol,ludlow…he is just a normal person who occasionally have a drink—nothing more!
3 Cocknobs // Dec 16, 2008 at 12:03 pm
At the 2006 Bahrain GP, Kimi was still well over the drink-drive limit when he started the race!
There was an occasion once, which was kept out of the press by Nav Sidhu, when one eyewitness caught Jenson Button and some friends in the toilets at the Hard Rock cafe in London doing blow.
4 A Ludlow // Dec 16, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Cocknobs, can you imagine the media meltdown if Lewis was caught doing such? And yet Button gets away with it. Lewis is already portrayed as the devil incarnate and he is a fabulous chap.
5 kate_ginny // Dec 16, 2008 at 1:29 pm
At the 2006 Bahrain GP, Kimi was still well over the drink-drive limit when he started the race!
what are you actually mean???
6 kate_ginny // Dec 16, 2008 at 1:34 pm
anyway i don’t believe this..
7 Krzysztof // Dec 16, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Yeah, Lewis is taking prozac
8 Rob // Dec 16, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Who knows what he’s contaminated with, from that crackwhore he’s dating
9 Osmodious // Dec 17, 2008 at 5:02 am
There have been a couple of times when I really felt that a driver was on something…when an excellent driver does something so off the deep end stupid that you HAVE to question it (M Schumacher trying to run Jacques V off the track, Ayrton Senna doing the same thing, more successfully of course, to Prost, etc.).
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