These Boutique Gyms for Racing Drivers Are Nothing Like Your Local Planet Fitness Driver fitness is serious business, and gyms such as PitFit represent the latest training advancements. By Andrew ...

Away-from-the track training produces drivers whose VO2 max scores are typically in the range of 55 to 65, according to Poole. This is a common metric for evaluating the overall fitness of an athlete.

Strength. Like any athlete, a race-car driver needs muscle mass. Exactly how much a driver's training focuses on this is somewhat dependent on the series in which they compete.

News Racing PitFit Training: IndyCar Drivers’ Secret Weapon to Winning the Indy 500. Drivers may be fit, but not all of them are mentally and cognitively conditioned to win.

Drivers have to be able to react at a split second while competing in the Truck Series, Xfinity Series, Cup Series, or ARCA Menards Series in order to avoid race-ending wrecks or other potential ...

Newgarden and other drivers train to handle the strain on their shoulders, neck and grip needed to muscle a 1,700-pound car (771 kilograms) through a race, whether navigating a street course like ...

But there are very race car-specific moves, too. “We also have an adapted steering system which I’ve designed alongside a professional race driver, Markus Niemelä (Atlantics champion in 2008 ...

Neck muscles aren’t a particular area of the body that most athletes pay attention to, but they’re important to Formula One drivers. In racing, “the head and neck are put under extreme loads ...

Teams and drivers treat endurance racing much like a series of short races. The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is a 100-minute race in Long Beach, California, and is one of several sub-two-hour ...

Complex simulators can provide valuable practice for drivers. Automobile Club de l’Ouest. Video simulation of racing has gone from an amusing, if not terribly faithful representation in games ...

Teams and drivers treat endurance racing much like a series of short races. The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is a 100-minute race in Long Beach, California, and is one of several sub-two-hour ...