Are Your Reflexes Up To Speed? F1 Reaction Test
Imagine yourself at the wheel, hands tightly clutching and just a heartbeat separating you from the beginning lights. Racing is about reacting, fast, to the smallest cues, not only about spinning a wheel rapidly. The F1 reaction test is therefore all about the space between light and motion, thinking and action. Everybody who has seen an F1 start understands the tension. One by one lights blink on, all focus zeroes in. The race bursts into life then, bam—the lights blink off. The speed at which a motorist leaps off the mark is not only determined by muscular memory. Pure practice here is what I do Tools range from phone apps who whoosh and beep, monitoring each twitch of your finger, to computerized boards with erratic patterns. Drivers discover creative ways to put nerves and fingers through their paces even in home training.
