How McLaren is mind-managing Norris back to the top of his game
Confidence is a racing driver’s supreme asset – but it can be a fragile commodity, as demonstrated by Lando Norris’s trajectory this season
Work for long enough in motor racing and you rack up many hours in airports, where you witness many peculiar scenes.
One that sprang to mind this weekend involved a well-known driver of yore causing a kerfuffle in the security queue because his pot of homeopathic tablets absolutely could not go through the baggage scanner, lest the magnetic fields zap their woo-woo. It was a fascinating glimpse into the mindset of a competitor: for all that Formula 1 is a science-based field in which every parameter of car performance can be measured, understood and optimised, fundamentally that car is being operated by electrical impulses zipping around inside a chemical battery.
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