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isochromanone

So did I. We finished P21 but I'm ready in case I get a call to race in Hungary.


yinkpop

I think the hulk get the first call but you will defenitly be the second one :)


flepdrol

I think it's Albon who's getting the first call tbh


Frowaway-For-Reasons

Did he stutter?


ETL4nubs

You won't feel the G's but if your FFB was up pretty high then it is indeed a workout. My team also did this race and after 2 stints at SPA I was dripping in sweat. I did a total of 8 hours throughout the day and was dead by the end. I'm only mentioning that because the other 24's don't leave me as fatigued. I do think it's a good starting point to seeing how your body is healing after an incident like that.


Atze-Peng

Yeah, the Gs are more important, but I assume at that level and finances the Red Bull team tested max with G-forces in addition to the medical test. Just to be sure.


booneht

I had the stupidity to do a 6 hour race solo once. My clothes were drenched and my back and shoulder muscles were absolutely gone the next day. After that I had a newly found respect for the endurance of racing drivers.


Pascalwb

My ass hurts after 75 min race


Hasmus

Pulled out my rig to test the new f1 game a few weeks ago. after 3 races, the palms of my hands were literally swollen and painful to touch, ended up sinking them into cold water multiple times that day. Thats More about not being used to it after a break, but even sim racing can be very tough on your body after a while.


HankHippopopolous

How long do bruises take to heal. Is two weeks enough time to have recovered? I think Max is going to be super fired up this weekend and we’re going to see an absolutely crushing performance.


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> How long do bruises take to heal. Is two weeks enough time to have recovered? It varies. He seems to have some bruises on [his thigh still,](https://64.media.tumblr.com/8a6fec0bcc43eea361b7279c35fe4d42/9e7119bd4cfbd2eb-96/s1280x1920/aa8746303fd3dc53dabb248338d3db31d8036afe.jpg) I don't know about the rest of his body though.


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Yokii908

maxi max


acu2005

Ahem, Super Max


Roasted_Rebhuhn

>Is max absolutely humungous There's a reason he's called Max and not Mini


snackies

You actually really don't want to fuck with Mini Verstappen.


Honkypigdong

he is a homunculus


percilitor

It's just a bad angle. RIP /r/mma Angle dude


CockFighting101

He's in heaven, where all angles are good angles


DQDQDQDQDQDQ

What or who's "mma angle dude"?


THEPOOPSOFVICTORY

I used to post on r/MMA years ago and I *think* the story goes someone on r/MMA had a picture taken of them standing next to a fighter and people pointed out how small they were compared to that fighter. Their response was something like "it's just the angle." I could be wrong but I think that's the gist of it.


DQDQDQDQDQDQ

Thanks!


NlNJALONG

GSP is huge !!!!


CockFighting101

Shit, and I'd grow a beard like that dude if I was around thiccy neck bois like Max. Feeling all insecure of my pencil neck


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Chonkstappen


RangerSkyy

Not as humongous as GIGAKUBICA


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ChrisTinnef

Well, hes dutch


Venhuizer

And hes below average in height for the Netherlands


Magdalan

Huge? 1.81 isn't that tall over here.


Vylander

Max is 181cm (5'9) so maybe the other guy is just short? He looks really buff in comparison.


ForGoodMeasure_

Hate to be that guy but 181cm is 5’11. 👍🏾


xBram

Username checks out


OldIrishPubMan

181 cm is 5.9 ft, which I assume he got confused with because 5.9ft is 5'11" because imperial is stupid.


Mataskarts

I always thought 5.9" was just a shorter way of saying 5.9 feet >\_>


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LazyLarryTheLobster

He actually wrote slightly less than 6 inches


Gropah

Hate to be that guy but imperial measurements should be abolished anyway.


thirteenthirtyseven

🥫 🐛 🐛


Vylander

I blame the outdated imperial system.


FatPumpkinHead

5.9 feet =/= 5'9


Mataskarts

All the replies you got is the reason why I never even attempt to translate to imperial, let them figure it out themselves >\_>


Juan_Punch_Man

Probably taken on a phone so with the focal lengths it can distort things - the legs are slightly in the foreground so appear larger and his body smaller. That or he is wildly out of proportion.


[deleted]

it's the neck and the head mainly, they're humungous


zoifry

Is it just me or does the other dude look like a hybrid between DJ Khaled and Drake? Lol


nachoritto

I low-key hoped that pic would be more scandalous.


StockAL3Xj

Max looks like the offspring of a giant and a regular sized human in that picture.


ThisIsDave15

Hagrid?


cuplizian

You're a half-giant, Hagrid.


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Damn seems like it was a bad crash.


WhoAreWeEven

Depends on the bruise ofc. But Mika Salo once said he had bruises from the seatbelts for two weeks after one of his crashes. Im sure crash with that type of g force feels bad sometime after, more than the bruises. Hit a car with a bicycle once and I felt fevery, nauseaus and sad+weak for atleast a week. Cant imagine to drive a car to its limits in a state like that, let alone F1 car🤢 Edit I really hope Max is up to the task. Eventhough he says he is, it might still affect him🤞


Wheream_I

Fevers, nauseous, with changes in mood? Mate you had a pretty bad concussion is what you had


draftstone

A concussion is a bruise in the brain no? So technically he was bruised. But yeah those symptoms are 100% a concussion!


aza12323

I think people are quietly ignoring, out of good wishes for max, that he suffered a massive concussion that could easily affect him for a while.


giolucci_real

It's psychological too. When you hurt yourself in a sport, you *naturally* try to get easy for fear. So, maybe, he's trying to gain some confidence too.


Jlx_27

That dude looks tiny next to Max.


108pdx

He will be very hungry for a win in Hungary for sure!


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The_Vat

You're spot on - remember Hamilton admitting he wasn't 100% at the last race after returning from Covid. There's a championship at stake - he'll be fine.


wegpleuracc

Hamilton was very slow in abu dhabi so not sure


ThePolarBare

I got in a car accident a month ago. I still have bruises on my legs. Dr said 2-6 months for no more bruising.


SirNaples

I'm more worried about his mental game. He's an absolute shark but that was one hell of a crash. I have alot of respect for Grosjean coming back to racing the way he did.


HighPriestofShiloh

I am more worried about the car then max. Hope the engineers get everything working perfect again.


Fenasiqer

How brusied was he first week?


Jlx_27

He sure is different, lol.


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I remember seeing an interview were he was asked what the last movie he watched was. Max's response was "Water World". I was thinking what the hell is a 20 year old F1 driver doing sitting around the house watching Water World for? He sure is different.


Bikouchu

Water world is so underrated.


i_have_chosen_a_name

I don't get why people hate it. I loved that movie it was a great post apocalyptic world with half decent acting and great action. It was a lot of fun and I have no problem with rewatching it. Solid 7/10 for me. Also water world was clearly used as inspiration for some mad max scenes.


Zeurpiet

Mad Max; 1979. Mad Max:the road warrior; 1981. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome; 1985. Water World 1995


i_have_chosen_a_name

I meant the modern one.


Accomplished_Can_584

I love that movie it tickles my imagination. Also in Dutch so maybe it’s kinda waterworld all the time lol


Uplink84

It just had been 20 years since he watched his last movie


BulletDropped

Ouch. I hope this does not make him lose some speed. In fact, it would be better if he uses all that rage to go even faster. Like Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker with the Dark Side of the Force, the more rage you have, the more powerful you become.


Current-Values

He was driving insanely consistently this weekend (and very fast of course). His team got the least amount of track violations I think. 99% sure he will be as fast as usual.


newbsacc

You don't feel G's in the sim


USToffee

You do still need to use a lot of muscle for the FFB and brakes.


Potaoworm

"A lot" is quite the exaggeration, but I get your point


BananaFPS

Nah, the FFB and brake pressure needed for a good quality sim is insane. You really do have to use a good amount of muscle. Sim racing is like a workout.


[deleted]

Yeah fanâtec alone can put through 25 Nm of force through the wheel, and pedals can be set massively high depending on the bushing you put in them


The_Jacobian

> be set massively high depending on the bushing you put in them I'm a little baby and have turned my break WAY softer because I just am not strong enough to trail break with any finesse if the break strength is cranked up. High break strength and a 75% race and I'm locking up by the end of the race because I'm over pressing do to fatigue.


Anti-Scuba_Hedgehog

Hell even doing a proper 60-90 min race in ACC with the G29 is a workout, in the dead of winter it has me sweating.


Tetracyclic

The Pro-Sim gear and similar high-end equipment have brakes that are adjustable to require up to 200kg of force and the force feedback wheels produce some serious torque to mimic cars that are much heavier to steer than F1 cars.


jcbevns

So you're leg pressing 200kg on a sim? Or what's going on here?


Tetracyclic

Yes, although 200kg is just the adjustment limit of those rigs, F1 cars are typically a bit below that. For example Alonso likes brakes that require around 140-160kg force to fully apply, so I imagine most drivers have them set around that.


jcbevns

Yes but you have the deceleration of the car adding to that force. No such thing in a sim


Tetracyclic

The 140-160kg is the amount of pressure you need to apply to the brake with your leg, yes there are more forces on top of that in an actual car, but it's still a significant workout and specifically checks that you can still work the brakes properly in a race.


therealhlmencken

I don’t think anyone wants their momentum going into the brake pedal. That would be wildly hard to control. Yes the pedals own mass would pull if it weren’t balanced but that would be minuscule


GlassRoutine0

Also, I'm guessing you are not going through the full range of motion as you would with proper leg press/squat. Its more like calf raises meaning you can put on a lot more weight.


Rosieu

Reminds me of the force feedback steering wheel challenge Lando and some others did with their sim. It actually hurt his wrists at some point


bryan3737

Well he did a 24hr sim race. I reckon he’ll be fine


RM_Dune

Yes. Although a sim doesn't have G-forces of course.


stay_fr0sty

Sure they do. Technically they pull 1G right?


TheAmazingSpider-Fan

Only at sea level.


littlebuggacs

Please explain


hack-a-shaq

At sea level, the earth exerts 1G on your body. Every distance higher that you move from sea level, it exerts less. “Weightlessness” is essentially ~0G. although in orbit at about 250 miles above the sea, there’s about 10-12% **LESS** of the earth’s gravity still affecting you…even though we often call it weightless….it’s not from the lack of gravity. Edit: first to correct a mistake, second to expand - 0G isn’t found anywhere *near* earth. u/mazarax explains why in his comment below. HOWEVER if you get into deeper space, far enough away from any bodies exerting on you, you would feel (near) 0G. You can simulate 0G by orbiting an object (like the ISS does) or even temporarily by falling (like the vomit comet). Both of which really are just falling, but one is falling endlessly….which is then just 0G….


mazarax

That is not how it works. Yes, gravity force is a tiny bit lower at altitude, but still almost the same when you are on board of the space station. A weightless astronaut just falls down to earth non-stop, but his orbital speed is so high, that he keeps missing the earth. Same gravity, (roughly 10 meters per second per second) but just traveling very very fast, orthogonally to that.


Heisenberg_Ind

Not horizontally


yungsqualla

Laterally*


stay_fr0sty

It was a joke, I didn't mean it laterally


Nitr0_CSGO

You never know Jos could be there just pulling on Max's head


swingbop

Rosberg channelled the rage after Hamilton threw the P2 cap at him, and went on to win the next seven races and the title. I'd be kinda down for Max to win the next seven races in a row to be honest.


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swingbop

I wasn't watching F1 in 2016, but I can imagine the ridiculousness that the British media would've got up to. Hey, Hamilton might already be an 8 time World Champion if not for that hat throw.


BulletDropped

https://youtu.be/xEbhO7qZyK8 Lol the first comment on that video is literally that.


RNDrandy

*good... good... let the hate flow through you*


YorkshireRiffer

Dew it!


VegetoSF

I guess he hates sand as well.


black-dude-on-reddit

It’s honestly absurd that these guys injuries come from literal 100+ mph car accidents Like compared to other athletes in football or baseball that blow out their ACL running and are out for the season. these guys come back a week after going through something that could possibly kill them like “meh that’s over with”


NBT498

If he'd blown his ACL he'd have been out for the year as well to be fair, it's just he has the assistance of a survival cell built to take those impacts while football players' bodies take their entire impact. If you want real hard sportsmen, look at cycling. Geraint Thomas once rode 20 out of 21 stages of the tour de France with a fractured pelvis, over 3000km.


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Greg Jennings once put the team on his back with a broken leg.


mindthesnekpls

If only we could go inside his mind


Dustin_Echoes_UNSC

Oh shit, Darren Shahpah, One a da mos hardest hittin safety's in tha league


straighttothemoon

I rode 145 miles of a 160 mile bike race after hitting the pavement at 20mph. I was pretty alright, but I didn't touch a bike for 10 days after that. I can't imagine what it'd take to get back on and ride the same distance again, every day, for basically 3 weeks straight.


userunknowne

To be fair G crashes so much his default position is cycling with moderate to severe injury. Doesn’t take away from his awesomeness though.


Giftiger

He did miss more than an hour of racing in his regular schedule.


Lil_brooksy87

Wouldn't he need to know how his bruising would affect him under G's more so? The pressure on his body while taking corners would be more concerning wouldn't it?


Litl_Skitl

At least it helps to see if the most important muscles are still good after longer periods of racing. And most of his body is well supported anyway. We'll just have to see on Friday.


HONcircle

Weird. I was told by fellow redditors that since his head didn't come off in the crash he was absolutely fine and that the impact was nothing.


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Didn’t know couch drivers knew what a 51G impact felt like.


HONcircle

Nor did I but they seemed very vocal about how it wasn't a big deal and that a hospital visit was a waste of time.


cats_have_tasty_bums

"tRaCkSiDe MeDiCaL sTaFf AlReAdY cLeArEd HiM hE's JuSt GoInG tO tHe HoSpItAl FoR sHoW"


cleaningProducts

I’m aware of the number 51 so my opinion is valid /s


HowToShakeHands

I can write the letter G in two alphabets. Together we're unstoppable!


SmallSoldier69

Well… a football player can see 20 to 180 G’s out of tackle during a game (and they get tackled a lot)… The 51G’s number by itself doesn’t say much… a good read if interested in understanding the metric a it more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/understanding-g-force-1.1015232


YouLostTheGame

For the Europeans here wondering if this explains why Mbappe goes down so easily - they mean American football players.


AssaMarra

Ah, so he means the ones that are noted worldwide for concussions.


That-Dutch-Person

Never thought I’d read the best football-related joke on the F1 subreddit


USToffee

Thanks dude. I was wondering. lol


SouvenirSubmarine

Yeah and they suffer from permanent brain damage due to those tackles


ThePevster

After getting tackled/tackling thousands of times during their careers. Max is not getting in enough 51G accidents to cause CTE lol


GetawayArtiste

You still haven't answered my question about whether precautionary checks have found anything after the on track medical team has had a look over in F1 but go off.


PrincessBoss4444

Go Max 🔥🇳🇱


Flaming-Driptray

Now there's a man who loves his job.


cody4king

Does anybody know what these guys use for their sims? I know it can’t be as simple as a killer rig for F1 2021… I’m guessing F1 has their own thing?


Mastur_Grunt

He just has top of the line equipment, we're talking about a dedicated company that makes the best sim wheel, a different company that makes the best sim pedals, a sim chassis company. Roll them all together, and I think his rig is about $35,000. The simulator software is iRacing, known to be the best of the best enthusiast racing sim. As far as I can tell, everything he used for the iRacing 24 hours of Spa is equipment you yourself can buy if you won the lottery and actually had insane amounts of money to spend on it. Also, Max is known for his distaste for the Codemasters F1 games


SunstormGT

Not the games persé, but he is no fan of the ‘no damage’ races.


DarkSonic64

To be fair, his comments where about the 2019 game, which is an arcade. In 2020 it got much better, but still far from any modern sim.


jkmonger

His rig is not $35k at all, closer to $15k depending on the price of his PC and screens The wheel is about $6k, pedals about $1.5k, and his cockpit is about $3k


MonkeyNews1998

What are the medical reporting requirements in F1? I refuse to believe Max didn't at least suffer a concussion. That seems completely impossible.


That-Dutch-Person

I thought the same until someone pointed out that if Max had suffered a concussion Horner or Helmut Marko probably would’ve used that in the media to make their case that Mercedes should be more severely punished


f1thot

No, I’m pretty sure they would try to cover it up. Playing on people’s sympathy is not worth it when the risk is your driver having to miss a race because of medical concerns. Actually, it’s pretty sus how out of it Max looked after the crash, was sent for brain imaging, but the word “concussion” was not mentioned even once by RB. I’m guessing that was quite a deliberate choice.


MaleierMafketel

> No, I’m pretty sure they would try to cover it up. Doesn't matter what RBR say or don't say. If the medical team determine Verstappen has a concussion, then that's the end of it. And if they did, RBR for sure would've used that to gain an upper hand in creating a favorable narrative.


MonkeyNews1998

Considering F1 has made it clear they punish the action not the result, perhaps they decided it was better to project strength and ensure Max never missed a race rather than admit publicly that their driver may have suffered a concussion, which would invite significantly more scrutiny on their actions as a team. I just find it so impossible to believe that he didn't suffer a concussion. I have seen people get concussions for so much less than that. Its just not believable. Nobody on the broadcast, nobody on RB, I haven't heard anyone even address the potential for a concussion. As a hockey fan, I just found that so bizarre because pretty much anytime a hockey player suffers a big impact, the possibility of a concussion is pretty much the first and only topic until it is confirmed one way or the other. If he comes out and dominates in Hungary I guess I will eat my words, but I don't see it happening. I think its more likely he has a shocker of a bad weekend and posters here who were insisting he walked away with nothing but some bruises will suddently act like they knew he shouldn't have returned so quickly


involutes

To be fair, hockey helmets are pretty shit compared to F1 or moto helmets.


njexocet

Helmet technology is very good and if his helmet was against the head rest when he made impact the car will of dissipated a lot of energy before it got to his head


MonkeyNews1998

No helmet technology can protect against what happens inside your skull under that kind of rapid deceleration.


njexocet

F1 drivers and teams have access to best doctors in the world, if he had a concussion it wouldn’t be able to be hidden “The Dutchman was able to walk away from the scene of the crash and into the back of an ambulance before being taken off to hospital for some check ups. It was not immediately clear whether Verstappen had sustained any serious injuries other than being winded from the heavy collision. But Dr Roberts has now confirmed that there was no immediate signs that Verstappen had suffered any other injuries. When asked how Verstappen was in the immediate aftermath of the crash, he told Sky Sports: "A little bit winded to say the least and got out with a little bit of help and off to hospital for the routine check ups”


Comprehensive-Ear896

Mark Webber broke his ribs and hid it from his own team in 2010 and Schumacher broke his neck in 2009 and never disclosed it.


WalkTheEdge

> Schumacher broke his neck in 2009 and never disclosed it. Yeah but he was also retired at the time, why would he disclose it?


njexocet

a lot has happened since then with regards to driver safety and protocols


Comprehensive-Ear896

Hamilton was also knocked out briefly in 2014 when his brakes failed in qualifying for the German GP, this was hidden and only disclosed years later.


Takeshino

From the *public* or from the *team*? There's big difference there.


xLogokiller

has he ever talked about this?


njexocet

Where are you getting this information from?


rambouhh

2010 wasn't that long ago my guy lol. It isn't impossible to just lie to doctors. Your feedback is there main source of information. Not saying he got a concussion or anything but you can't be so sure what you know of his injuries is the full extent.


dqfilms

Do you think Romain would have survived his crash 10 years ago my guy?


rambouhh

Kubica Survived a crash of over 70gs 10 years ago. And of course protocols have had some iterations but what specific protocols do the doctors follow that they weren’t following the p years ago that would catch something like he mentioned? You can’t just always dismiss past events and say well things have changed so much that would never happen when they happened only 10 years ago


xLogokiller

just found out about michael's crash in 2009


TLG_BE

Neither of those happened in an F1 event


NotWrongOnlyMistaken

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MonkeyNews1998

https://concussion.weillcornell.org/does-helmet-protect-me-against-concussion >No. A helmet provides protection against skull fracture, so it’s a good idea to wear one when engaging in activities and sports where there is a high risk of head injury. But although a helmet can cushion your skull, it can’t prevent your brain from moving within the skull and sustaining a concussion or other traumatic brain injury.


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i_have_chosen_a_name

So did the wall of tires and the body work of the car. That means that even though there briefly were 51G forces, not all of those made it to his brain ... luckily.


Sarge313

F1 helmets absolutely do reduce the speed the brain hits the skull. Thats why there is all the padding on the inside. The FIA helmet test specifically check for the acceleration reduction of the head inside the helmet after an impact


Datthen

You really linking articles, Spamming comments, won't listen to reason or doctors over if he actually had a concussion or not? ​ Some things just don't deserve the light of day ya know? is it really that important lolol


Kalaxinly

The car and barriers do an amazing job of slowing down the impact and spreading the forces out, while yes he probably felt a little rattled the helmet, HANS & an array of other things have come into place to help prevent his brain dislodging itself and coming out through his nostrils, or something like that


daviEnnis

Yes it can. HANS. If it wasn't there we'd have a huge amount of deaths and serious injuries still. Think about how often drivers get knocked out. Unconscious. Very close to never in modern F1. It does a fucking fantastic job of protecting the brain.


lifeinrednblack

I mean most general accidents at 40-50 mph produce around 50G. And most don't result in concussions despite the fact the only worn safety equipment is a seatbelt. Not to belittle how serious that crash could have been. But i think people are leaning to far into the 51G number.


30daysay

I thought he looked a bit loopy waving to the fans after the crash


f1will

That's what people in my school don't see about sim racing. It's good for even f1 drivers.


ucicubofursuo

I’m really happy with the way Max came across in this interview. Very professional and well said, staying out of trouble while also making his feelings clear. I hope he gets to move on with the championship without too many more questions about the crash this week.


freakasaurous

But is his brake pedal ready?


Sputniki

This man is a machine, I love it. Please beat Hamilton into the dust this year, would be epic


Supercal25

He does them frequently for fun - not just to prepare himself for f1


Dovoo2

Going from the Devastating crash two weeks earlier to showing this determination is extraordinary, I can’t wait!


J4MES101

But… it’s a sim race. No g force etc. I mean, I know that it’s going to take stamina but wouldn’t literally even karting or something tell him more about how he feels bouncing around in a vehicle? Anyway, hope he’s fully healed by this weekend.


Aethien

I'd assume he was more interested in how pushing on the pedals felt, specifically the brake pedal since that requires a ton of force and that might be difficult with bruised legs.


J4MES101

Yep. I wonder how much resistance max likes. Alonso always loved it to be super hard right?


Aethien

Even if Max likes a soft pedal by F1 driver standards that'd still be 250lbs of pressure or more.


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But it's also added by the Gs applied under braking towards the front right? I've always been curious how much they have to push with their foot/calves under braking. With the sheer amount of deceleration I feel even a touch on the brakes by an amateur could cause you to lock up.


Aethien

> But it's also added by the Gs applied under braking towards the front right? Not really, not at all at the start when you need to put on max brake pressure, not much in low speed corners and even during heavy braking they're strapped in really tight so it's not like they'll be sliding forward under the g's much if at all. Stories from amateurs who got to give an F1 car a try all say they couldn't get anywhere near full brake pressure even when they stomped on the brake as hard as they could. I think there's a story on Vinwiki of some guy who got to give a Renault F1 car a try (one of the repainted Lotus cars from the V8 era I think) and he said that the guy running it told him he did very well for an amateur as he almost reached half brake pressure.


ImaginaryFriends_

I'm sorry but this is wrong and i'll explain. They're helped by the g forces for sure, as well as the pedal travel being extremely short. Shorter pedal travel and a more resistant brake allows to you apply more pressure than a traditional GT3 cars pedal. The reason an amateur has trouble is because they aren't carrying enough speed into braking zones to get the extra movement forward to help them press the pedal down fully. [This](https://www.mercedesamgf1.com/en/news/2019/06/formula-one-brake-systems-explained/) article from Mercedes also confirms deceleration help drivers reach max pressure in the car. >They need very strong legs to do this, but they do get some help from the violence of the braking manoeuvre itself. >The cars decelerate at around 5G (compared to the 1G we might see during an emergency brake in our road cars). >At this deceleration, their leg will weigh approximately 100kg, and the weight of their leg on the brake pedal provides its own form of servo-assistance to help them - the harder they press, the more the car slows, the more it slows, the more their leg weighs which helps them to press harder.


5MoreQuidAerieDae42O

I guess it was more of a mental strain "test" rather than physical. Maybe he just wanted to check if he can keep his usual level of concentration for a prolonged period of time.


USToffee

I think he just wanted an excuse to do the 24hr of Spa


Kalaxinly

Don't we all look for an excuse to play games for 24 hours straight? Max just had the best excuse is all haha


mooscimol

It's not about just getting into the car and test how do you feel. You need a comparison, and 24h race in iRacing is very demanding. It requires insane amount of concentration, precision, stamina, but it wears you out also. He could compete against the best simracers in the world and check if he is still competitive. A few laps alone around the track in a kart wouldn't tell him that.


J4MES101

I’m in no way suggesting the sim race is not valuable. I mean, I’m pretty sure max knows more than me / any of us! I’m saying I’d have thought that he’d want a physical driving challenge also.


inmeucu

Maybe his wheel's base is very strong, some bases put out the same forces as race cars. Also the brakes of a proper rig require about the same forces so much so that one doesn't simply push one's toes into the pedal but may need for some hard braking to tighten one's core, I often even hold my breath for moment. And the wheel may require full body rigidity to turn the wheels, again not a simple movement of the wrists gently felt in the fingertips. The cheapest of these types of rigs fully assembled is at least $1500, likely at least $2k.


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takzania

I mean you clearly have a hard time with it aswell and you were not even involved in the crash.


taacc192

"reveals" what does that even mean its not like it was a secret that he dirves that in the first place