F1 is very, very demanding. Intense focus and coordination, super high G-forces sustained for like an hour, and you're sweating bullets the entire time, strapped to a rocket. Brakes are HEAVY and lots of work. The average person would hurt themselves trying to drive an F1 car, probably seriously hurt their neck.
Click here for HQ version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUhB0JKjJrQ&list=UUjOl2AUblVmg2rA_cRgZkFgRichard takes the Renault R25 Formula 1 car for a spin rou...
Watch Hammond take a spin in a car. He's a way better driver than 99.99% of the world, even though they poke fun at him for being slow. He's absolutely struggling and can't even get it up to speed. The average distance runners are nowhere near strong enough to handle one of those. The average distance runner has nowhere near enough coordination and reaction time to handle one of those.
F1 is very, very demanding. Intense focus and coordination, super high G-forces sustained for like an hour, and you're sweating bullets the entire time, strapped to a rocket. Brakes are HEAVY and lots of work. The average person would hurt themselves trying to drive an F1 car, probably seriously hurt their neck.
Watch Hammond take a spin in a car. He's a way better driver than 99.99% of the world, even though they poke fun at him for being slow. He's absolutely struggling and can't even get it up to speed. The average distance runners are nowhere near strong enough to handle one of those. The average distance runner has nowhere near enough coordination and reaction time to handle one of those.
That said, the training behind F1 isn't very technical. Be lean, have decent endurance, be relatively strong, practice reflexes, and have a BEEFY neck.
Cycling. A lot of research went into the pharmaceuticals top riders are on.
Could say that about any sport.
Honestly a lot of the stuff sort of feels like fake science when you look at the training of a bunch of endurance/footballers/basketballers where it looks good but it isn’t clear how much of the science is just for show versus being useful. Some of the dietary fads suggest they are just guessing. Or a technique sport like golf where they can video and measure everything but then still have debates on what you should actually be doing…
F1 is very, very demanding. Intense focus and coordination, super high G-forces sustained for like an hour, and you're sweating bullets the entire time, strapped to a rocket. Brakes are HEAVY and lots of work. The average person would hurt themselves trying to drive an F1 car, probably seriously hurt their neck.
Watch Hammond take a spin in a car. He's a way better driver than 99.99% of the world, even though they poke fun at him for being slow. He's absolutely struggling and can't even get it up to speed. The average distance runners are nowhere near strong enough to handle one of those. The average distance runner has nowhere near enough coordination and reaction time to handle one of those.
The average F1 driver can’t break 5:00 for a mile and neither can most athletes from other sports. You can praise F1 drivers without taking an irrelevant shot at our sport.
F1 is very, very demanding. Intense focus and coordination, super high G-forces sustained for like an hour, and you're sweating bullets the entire time, strapped to a rocket. Brakes are HEAVY and lots of work. The average person would hurt themselves trying to drive an F1 car, probably seriously hurt their neck.
Watch Hammond take a spin in a car. He's a way better driver than 99.99% of the world, even though they poke fun at him for being slow. He's absolutely struggling and can't even get it up to speed. The average distance runners are nowhere near strong enough to handle one of those. The average distance runner has nowhere near enough coordination and reaction time to handle one of those.
The average F1 driver can’t break 5:00 for a mile and neither can most athletes from other sports. You can praise F1 drivers without taking an irrelevant shot at our sport.
What's your point? Someone said F1 isn't a sport. It very clearly is. It just requires a bunch of traits that the vast majority of distance runners have zero idea about.
"Can't even break 5:00" lmao, get over yourself
An F1 driver would look at you and say, "Can't even downshift properly!"
The average F1 driver can’t break 5:00 for a mile and neither can most athletes from other sports. You can praise F1 drivers without taking an irrelevant shot at our sport.
What's your point? Someone said F1 isn't a sport. It very clearly is. It just requires a bunch of traits that the vast majority of distance runners have zero idea about.
"Can't even break 5:00" lmao, get over yourself
An F1 driver would look at you and say, "Can't even downshift properly!"
There is no common ground between the 2 sports. Whether or not a distance runner could be a good F1 driver, couldn’t be more irrelevant.
What's your point? Someone said F1 isn't a sport. It very clearly is. It just requires a bunch of traits that the vast majority of distance runners have zero idea about.
"Can't even break 5:00" lmao, get over yourself
An F1 driver would look at you and say, "Can't even downshift properly!"
There is no common ground between the 2 sports. Whether or not a distance runner could be a good F1 driver, couldn’t be more irrelevant.
You're offended that I took a shot at distance runners because these runners said that a sport involving reflexes, coordination, and some endurance is not a sport. I was responding to people saying it's not a sport by pointing out the skills outside their sport's realm are very challenging to master.
This is like when the distance kids say, "Sprinting is easy. You guys just stand round and take lots of rest."
No way it's bodybuilding. I used to hang out with bodybuilders all the time and almost everything they do is just bro-science passed down from the biggest guy they know.
Now cycling...even the slow guys have a powermeter that they study compulsively.