Slash Wrote:
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> as far as i knew it was 3 kg per race
>
> and the second question, absolutely...
>
> i've driven some races in gokarts and i'm not
> professional but yoy feel the gforces, even as
> minimum as they are, to exhaust you..
>
> in a F1 car, the gforces are extreme, not only
> that but they experience them for more than
> 300kms, add to that the focus and the
> concentration they need to keep the car inside the
> whitelines add to that the other cars they need to
> compete and managing the whole tyre-engine thing..
> so besides being a physycal exhausting sport is
> probably more demanding mentaly than anything
> else
>
> someone once said that an F1 driver could hold 14
> rounds of boxing and probably more.. tbh i don't
> consider that to be crazy, they probably could.
>
> remember these guys spend 4hrs daily on the gym
> just to hold the geforces of driving the car
>
> ps: i remember back in early 00's some drivers
> from CART series and IRL tested F1 cars and they
> all commented on how exhausting they where after 4
> laps iirc Dixon was one of them, and these guys
> are professional racing drivers, Castroneves,
> Franchitti, they all said the same... imagine
> being a professional driver and thinking you're
> fit enough as they probably are and all of a
> sudden you try an F1 car and after 4 laps you have
> to stop because you can't hold it anymore?..
> that's crazy
Trust me I'm an ex-boxer and they would not. Boxing is a totally different discipline. Some boxers do 6 times the road work and twice as much time as an F1 driver in the gym but come the fight; they still end up blowing through their gum shields. You could take the fittest guy you know into a sparring session and he’d be blown after one round. No balance sixteen ounce gloves on your toes eating jabs and right crosses, body shots that would fold you in half, uppercuts that lift you off your feet not to mention hooks that would de-cappitate the head off the thickest neck, all that for three minutes ... believe me you'd want your mom after just one round.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/20/2012 09:33PM by Isaint.