What is needed to be a formula one controller?
When observing the demands on the elite motor sports pilots, sports scientists at Swansea University have been helping the 2025 F1 season, Lando Norris, Lando Norris to reach the top of the podium.
Documented on Norris’s YouTube channel, the team put it through rigorous tests to help inform its training, which included evaluating the “neck force and neck profile” to prepare for the G-Force reaction times and review and its grip strength.
Professor and researcher Christian Vassalo said: “There has been a stereotype that pilots are not athletes but recent, and thanks to projects like this, that perception is changing.”
Video edited by Er Listerter