[WRC] News & Rumours 2018

[janvanvurpa]

i think you're not getting it.
yes, reactions can be trained. yes, a 65 year old can have faster reactions than the average 20 year old.

but, at age 65 you will never be able to train your reactions to be as fast as you would have been able at age 20.

Sorry but I think it is you who are getting lost and fixating on one little thing which amateurs love to obsess on...
I said that the physical training for rallydrivers---and those girly-boys who keep to asfalt in F1 is primarily to make the guys MINDS stronger to deal with stress, because the physical strength demands are very low compared or relatif to some other motosports..
I really don't think that can be seriously debated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOcDL35YAOw&t=570s

I think its fairly obvious that the physical requirements for the guys in that video above are orders of magnitude higher to do that for 35+ minutes than a rallydriver doing a 10-15 minute SS in a car with servo steering, nice little gearchange, and huge brakes, and no shower of rock peppering him ...
The bike guys still have the mental stress--lines, gearchange, position, etc that a rally driver does, but on top of that extremely hard WORK...and 30 or 35 guys ALL with equipment as good as what you have....

Or as I suggested some guys do this nearly nonstop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_0TcICyDCo


drive 300km in the woods in one day versus over 3 days and call it fun.. I did when I retired and before I did rally.

One can be a rally fan, sure but is it required to pretend that it is physically the hardest motorsport and requires unusual 'strength"?

I have done the motocross (professionally), long hard enduros in my early 30s for fun (did pretty good too) and when I got old and beat up, and tired of being wet and cold--then I did gravel rally....It seemed to me a natural progression from harder to easier as I got older..

That is why I asked about all the competition you have done..looking for some common ground to assist in both of us understanding..and to see if your opinion is from reading or actual doing it...

(and yes my reactions are slower now but they are still faster than 19-20 year old "gamers"...and yesterday I was very tired after loading and unloading TONs in the last several days...Did you take the test? et le resultat? )