Quote Originally Posted by denkimi View Post
Mental difficult task are physically exhaustings.
The thing with rallying is that it's not one stage, the crew is busy and has to remain focussed all day. Janvanpuura is not wrong, but he needs to call it exhaustion instead of stress.
It's like walking 80km, it's never not difficult because the speed's to high, it's difficult because it takes so long.

Being old is not a physical problem. The level of fitness required in the wrc can be achieved by a 60 year old. It's a problem of the mind. As you get older your reactions get slower, and there's nothing you can do about it.
For a codriver its doesn't matter that much, because they don't need to react in milliseconds.
I am just curious if anybody here has tested their own reactions as they have aged?
See, everybody talks about 'fast reactions' and how younger guys supposedly have "fast reactions"...
But nobody ever puts any numbers to it... ever...
And nobody puts a number to what "normal" reaction is, and how much "faster reaction" is "needed" compared to a base line of "normal" reactions..

And then there are those --like me---who believe --or rather know---that "fast" reactions are trained in.
And that the whole (amateur) discussion --which may be true to some (quantified) degree ignores totally the role of experience, and that you do need "super fast" reactions if you don't get yourself into situations where fast reactions are needed..Experience counts

This is fun testhttp://www.loltimeplayed.com/reactionresults.php

Your reaction speed is 262ms

117,862 players have taken the test*. The mean reaction time of all players is 285 ms and the mean age is 19.7

Q Is there a correlation between reaction speed and ability? YES

Now last few days I have been helping a friend move his rally prep and cage building shop..Long 10-12 hours days, TONS of equipent loaded and moved and unloaded..TONS of jumk scrapped..21 years in that shop and he is a pack-rat.
I am tired, and have not had a cup of tea in 8 hours...I have eaten 1 orange and 2 apples..so hungry..Low energy..
But somehow I beat the mean reaction time of nerdy game players with an average age of 19.7 years...
I turned 65 last December...

Last year when perkier and a recent cigarette I did test 20 times and that day averaged between .181 and .200 milliseconds stomping the sh!t out of the two 18/19 year old boys who were telling me why the driver had "exceptional" reaction times..(yeah exceptionally SLOW!!! averaged .360 milliseconds.

Reaction times, like nearly everything else, is largely learned and then reinforced by practice. It is largely what the US Navy "Top Gun School" calls a "highly perishable skill"

All you guys here are fans in one degree or another. let's see what reaction times you have..Follow the link, take the test, post results.