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F1: Mechanical Issues…? Injuries in Formula Racing
Sport is back! I hope this makes people just as happy as it makes me. Being a big fan of all sport (particularly the mighty Chels!) it’s great that amongst these extremely testing times we are being able to find a way to return. We have the first 8 races confirmed, with some more to […]
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F1 is heating up
“They only have to drive a car” as I answer questions to what we do to prepare drivers to race. Similar to neck strength, an overlooked area of driver fitness is the ability to perform in considerably hot conditions.
Although I imagine slightly more understood by many after the 2018 London Marathon recorded its hottest temperature […]
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The Driver Neck
“The high gravitational loads placed on the body to run the fast line can strain your neck, if your neck fatigues you will not be able to run the fast line” Mark Webber (cited from Ferguson, 2019).
When Mark Webber expanded on this he discussed how during one race he noticed Jensen Button was using his […]
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F1: Covid-19….what now?
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it” (Molière).
Photo: @kymillman
It is of course a difficult time at the moment because we have got nothing concrete in front of us, things change very quickly and weekly we are having to look at it and say ‘how do we train? What does it look like?’. […]
