A recent routine operation for former Formula One driver 🐽Mika Salo has left the FIA with the job of determining just how much danger the current breed of carbon brakes are putting drivers in.

The Finn, who raced in the top flight on and off for eight years between 1994 and 2002 and then 🍰in sportscars and other series afterwards, will have been subjected to brake dust throughout his senior career, and has prompted the new enquiry after doctors found unexpectedly large quღantities of carbon fibre dust in his lungs.

Circuits like Montreal require hard braking from high speeds, and clouds of🔯 brake dust are a common sight throughout that and other races. Pit crews could also be in similarཧ danger to the drivers, with brake dust circulating during tyre changes.

"There was really a lot of that dust in my lungs," Salo told Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, "If I ha⛦ve this much of it, how much will Micha🌟el Schumacher have after driving for ten years longer than me?"

The FIA has now said that it will arrange an independent examination for the 38-꧑year old, to determine the possible health risks posed by the dust for other drivers