🗣️'It needs to be natural, second nature, because if you're thinking about it, you're already behind.' The lack of in-car physical fitness is an 'underestimated' hurdle for an IndyCar rookie, according to Dale Coyne Racing's Sting Ray Robb ⬇️
Aside from IndyCar’s five days of open testing – last week’s two days at Thermal Club, two at Indianapolis in April, and one on the eve of the season finale at Laguna Seca – the teams are permitted just two other test days.
“I think the physical fitness side is underestimated in a lot of senses because people think, ‘I can drive a car, I drive down the freeway all the time,’” said the 21-year-old, who is joined in the 2023 rookie class by Formula 2 race-winner Marcus Armstrong , Argentine touring car convert Augustin Canapino and fellow Lights graduate Benjamin Pedersen .
“You have to build up that muscle… It needs to be natural, second nature, because if you're thinking about it, you're already behind. “In a racecar, there's so many variables that are changing lap to lap, corner to corner, that if you fall into a rhythm, you're going to hit the wall. You have to be on your toes 110 percent of the time.”
“It felt like it was an Indy NXT car that did what I wanted it to do. I didn't have to wrestle it around as much.
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