Smoker in F1? Rosberg hints at it.

[Nando]

Perhaps this is another fake article but it had some pretty shocking information.
source, http://totalf1.com/full_story/view/4354 ... in_smokes/

According to Nico Rosberg, he knows of one current Formula 1 driver smokes cigarettes.

The conversation of smoking come up when Rosberg was recalling the last time F1 visited Texas.

The Mercedes driver’s father, the inimitable ‘Flying Finn’ Keke Rosberg, won that 1984 race in Dallas.

“Yes,” Rosberg told Italy’s La Stampa, “it was 40 degrees and while the other drivers wore refrigerated suits, he (Keke) was bare-chested in the sun, smoking a cigarette.

“He had beaten them all before it started,” Nico smiled.

The La Stampa newspaper said the behaviour of Rosberg’s father almost 30 years ago would today be “unthinkable”. Indeed, it was believed the last smokers in F1 were Jan Magnussen at the end of the 90s, or perhaps Mika Salo.

“About the smoking?” Rosberg wondered. “No, you’re wrong — there’s one driver who lights one cigarette after another. I’m not naming names.”

Who on the grid smokes cigarettes? I can´t imagine any of them doing that really.

Could it be De La Rosa? Old timer you know.

[johnny99]

I'm fairly sure Kimi enjoy's a good smoke

John

[bhall]

Really?

[n_anirudh]

Maybe this guy?

[astracrazy]

there are a lot of pictures of him smoking

[Cold Fussion]

Why is this shocking information?

[Gerhardsa]

there are a lot of pictures of him smoking

Smoking a cigarette and smoking(actually puffing) a cigar as Mike likes to do...well chaps, those are galaxies apart.

[Lurk]

+1. Shuey smokes but it doesn't seem a lot. I also don't think it is Raikkonen: with all pictures of him drunk, we surely have one of him smoking. Alonso has changed his way of living since he is with Dashka. Don't know if he also starts smoking, but he looks more and more exhausted after each race while the others are OK.

Anyway a smoking driver who works hard, sleeps well and eats healthy will be in better shape that the one who doesn't smoke but drinks nearly each night or eats only big mac..

[Cam]

there are a lot of pictures of him smoking

Smoking a cigarette and smoking(actually puffing) a cigar as Mike likes to do...well chaps, those are galaxies apart.

Really? Galaxies apart? Here's some info to enlighten you.

http://m.cancer.gov/topics/factsheets/cigars

Point 6 "there is no safe tobacco use..."

[Lurk]

Of course there is not safe tobacco use. Point was: "cigar is not as bad as cigarette"

It takes us back to Point 4:
Unlike nearly all cigarette smokers, most cigar smokers do not inhale. Although cigar smokers have lower rates of lung cancer, coronary heart disease, and lung disease than cigarette smokers, they have higher rates of these diseases than those who do not smoke cigars.

Smoking cigars is bad for your health, smoking cigarettes is even worse.

[turbof1]

Cigars ussually also aren't smoked often. One might only smoke a handfull a year. Cigars are more for "the occasion".

[Dragonfly]

OMG, that's terrible news, jail him

[Bomber_Pilot]

Perhaps this is another fake article but it had some pretty shocking information.

Shocking? Really?

[turbof1]

What most people don't actually know is that this driver utilises smoke gas for aerodynamic benefit! You see, before the race he'll smoke as much as cigarettes as possible and store all of the gas in his lungs. During the race he'll release it gradually to seal the diffuser. Word is that the team made smart use of cigarettepipes to duct it towards the diffuser. They still have problems though to get it working constantly and predictable due the driver not breathing at a constant rate.



(and if you don't believe it, I'll find something else to mock on)

[Nando]

Perhaps this is another fake article but it had some pretty shocking information.

Shocking? Really?

Yea i think it is. (if it´s cigarettes)
Makes no sense to be an elite athlete and smoke cigarettes.

40 years ago that was normal but today? doubt it.