# Racing question.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racing-question/91166>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 2, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racing-question/91166 "2001-11-02T18:19:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racing-question/91166/41 "2001-11-05T17:41:08Z")

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**Drake** , your observations about how useful racing games can be to actual races have also been made by drivers themselves - a lot of NASCAR drivers use the EA Sports NASCAR games to keep themselves “on the ball” during the off-season - it’s fun and it apparently helps them.

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racing-question/91166/42 "2001-11-05T19:13:03Z")

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in formula 1, drivers face a force of about 6g’s. that’s a helluva lot, for 2 hours of racing at excess speeds.

i’ve heard a formula 1 car driver actually panting ( not in the race, but on a practice run, done for a television clip to show ppl that racing is actually strenous ) so it does take very physically fit persons. apart from highly skilled.

go ferrari 🙂

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