Name: How IndyCar Drivers Are Trained | What It Takes
Uploaded: 2021-08-06T06:14:16.000Z
Duration: 9 min 15 s
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It feels like 50 pounds of weight on his head.

work out a part of the body most athletes overlook.

So you're only really competing against the people

have raced these single-seat, open-cockpit vehicles,

And the premier race is the Indianapolis 500,

where 33 drivers push their limit for 500 miles

Narrator: Rossi won a prize of $2.5 million.

which was a surprise to everyone, including myself.

Narrator: But it took a lot of training, strategy,

It's just a whole lot that goes into racing

drivers hit the gym for their final workouts.

that can feel like a 50-pound weight on their head.

This means working out a very specific body part.

is you have to kind of have a weird-shaped neck.

The biggest machine is called the iron neck.

It is made for wrestlers, but IndyCar has adopted it.

So, it has kind of a bungee cord that comes up,

and it connects to a disk around your head,

Rossi: And so we spend a lot of time in the sauna.

You'll do a two-minute sprint on a treadmill,

you'll get off, you'll go straight into a sauna,

and you'll do a five-minute reaction drill on an iPad.

and other factors for 2 1/2 hours straight.

When a lot of that lactic acid builds up,

weight that you can usually move with your eyes closed,

Narrator: To prepare his body for this sustained work,

Rossi focuses on exercises that contract muscles

but what you actually do is you'll move the weight up,

and then halfway down, you'll hold it for eight seconds.

That is really one of the big things that we do,

So, I was introduced to racing by my father.

he took me to a go-kart school in Las Vegas,

Really, from that point forward, I had the passion

and desire to become a professional race-car driver.

The mental game is a huge part of racing.

It's a sport where you lose way more than you win.

You have to get in the car with a very good understanding

of what you're going to do, how you're going to do it,

Narrator: Endurance isn't just a physical test.

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How IndyCar Drivers Are Trained | What It Takes

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