Mara Lind

Mara Lind

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Training

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Neck day: the gym work nobody sees

Four g through a fast corner means your head weighs twenty kilos. This is how a racing driver trains for it.

Written by Mara Lind

The question I get asked most is whether driving is a sport. Try holding your head up through Pouhon.

Three mornings a week are strength and neck work, two are cardio, one is reaction training.

The goal is not to be strong for one lap. It is to feel the same on lap thirty as on lap one.

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