An IndyCar driver describes the brutal physical toll of racing, making roughly 3,800 gear shifts in a single 3-hour-22-minute event. On street circuits like Toronto and Long Beach, drivers shift every two seconds, constantly upshifting and downshifting through corners with no break.
So I just thought, well, if I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna stay at the top of my game, then you get into a race, you know, take— I had one of the fastest Indy's that they'd run for a long time. It was still 3 hours and 22 minutes. Wow. And there's no relaxation. Yeah. You think about that, what you're, you're doing, you have to stay top shape for late in the race. These aren't paddle shift, they're not automatic or anything like that. Yeah. Some of these races, places like Toronto, Mid-Ohio, and Long Beach, 3,800 gear changes in a race. 3,800. You're going up or down every 2 seconds. Wow. Now sometimes when you're on the straightaway, so you come out of the hairpin, for example, your hairpin there was first gear. So you're first, second, third, fourth, fifth, down, fifth, fourth, second, boom, through the corner, back up, back up, down, through, and regroup.
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