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THE MIND, THE “TOP TWO INCHES” OF THE GREAT GRAND PRIX DRIVERS
"There are solely three sports activities: bullfighting, mountaineering and motor racing; all the remaining are merely video games."
– Ernest Hemingway
"The driver is predicted to discover the internal locations of his want by taking all the things to this restrict…to translate it right into a chic peak solely he can attain; however the bother is that they’re all doing it…. on a slender ribbon of observe, collectively."
– wonderful writing by Christopher Hilton in his fascinating e book Inside the Mind of a Grand Prix Driver,
Haynes Publishing 2003 (first printed as a hardcover in 2001)
Web website http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Mind-Grand-Prix-Driver/dp/1844250172
"All drivers are united by a ardour for what they do. They specific it in other ways, as you’d anticipate, as a result of they’re fiercely impartial and impressive males drawn from each continent and each background. But the message transcends all the things."
Submitter’s Note
This “work, this true labour of ardour and love” follows on my different Amazon e-books on motor racing and particularly Formula One (they’re ‘ The Mind of a Grand Prix Driver, Stirling, The Prize, The Grand Prize, The Formula One Mind, God and Formula One, The Winning Way, The White Helmet and The Yellow Helmet’, Obsessive or WHAT!).
Here are a few of my notes from analysis into many books about the easiest Grand Prix drivers (of all time). Other (many and diverse) sources are from racing magazines, newspaper cuttings with quotes from drivers, many unknown . Enjoy my shared "true labours of ardour and love".
We share what we all know, in order that all of us might develop
craig
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THE MIND (MINDSET) OF THE FASTEST GRAND PRIX DRIVERS ON PLANET EARTH
"It’s like a treatment for all the things. It does not matter what issues you’ve got – monetary, in your private life – and it does not matter, when you really feel actually ailing. All that goes away and solely you sitting in this protecting cell, this cockpit stays. I’ve by no means felt something like this in another manner and solely driving on the restrict provides it to you."
– former Swedish Ferrari F1 driver, Stefan Johansson from ‘Inside the Mind of a Grand Prix Driver’ , a most fascinating (and engaging no less than to me!) e book that I’m at present studying and researching
Does the racing driver suppose in a distinct manner from us “peculiar folks”?
They will not be such as you and I…but we will ALL be taught from them on the very pinnacle of accomplishment…
GREAT GRAND PRIX DRIVERS ALL have:
* Great DESIRE and keenness
"I realised the factor which made me tick was the profitable."
“The want to win could be very highly effective. It begins as a passion that they change into superb at, after which it turns into a occupation.”
“You have the need and the fervour.”
“Those who lack psychological resilience fall away.”
“The wrestle is a measure of the motive force’s want.”
"I consider all drivers as pie charts. That will be dedication, sheer pure expertise, technical understanding, PR, character, no matter. You can have huge reserves of pure expertise; nevertheless it’s the starvation, it is the necessity, that is the dividing issue."
How a lot would you like this?
“And if you don’t need it that a lot, you are routinely eradicated.”
* Excellent mind-management expertise
“This was the rationale why I used to be so sturdy in my head. There was no thriller: you are able to do it. But the way you put together your mind and your self to do that on a regular basis, that I nonetheless do not know.”
"In his thoughts he was so sturdy. Ayrton had the invincibility in a barely totally different manner, as a result of he was spiritual and he was protected by God."
– Johnny Herbert
* A inflexible self perception – no doubting one’s self.
“Before you consider in something, you need to consider in your self.”
"Every driver believes he’s the very best."
I’ll preserve including to my notes in this "true labour of affection". Enjoy
craig
17th Jan 2011
“I don’t wish to reside a balanced life. Racing is all I wish to do.”
– Mario Andretti (World Drivers Champion in 1978)
