How Fitness Affects your Driving
Oct 29, 2020
An entirely important aspect to driving is physical fitness. As the cars continue to get faster there’s more physical and mental stress being put on your body while driving.
While driving a GT3 car for example you can experience upwards of 2.5G’s. Consistently doing this for 45 to 90 minutes takes a toll on the body!
From one of the last events I drove in here is the breakdown from my stint. An hour of drive time with and average heart rate of 132 and peak of 175. Comparing this to one of my 5 mi training runs you can see how physical driving a race car can be!
The other aspect in physical fitness comes to the mental fatigue that can be experienced in the car. Mental fatigue leads to mistakes, yielding inconsistent lap times or at worst wrecks. The mental sharpness required to drive the cars at averages of nearly 100 mph is no small task!
Preparing yourself outside of the car is extremely important to ensuring success and consistency on the race track.
