David Coulthard: Tại sao Fernando Alonso ở độ tuổi 40 khỏe hơn Michael Schumacher
David Coulthard đã xem xét lý do tại sao Fernando Alonso thể hiện tốt hơn ở độ tuổi 40 so với Michael Schumacher trong F1.
Alonso là một trong những ngôi sao của mùa giải cho đến nay vào năm 2023 với việc anh ấy đã ghi được bốn lần lên bục trong năm chặng đua đầu tiên cho đội Aston Martin, đội đã đạt được một số tiến bộ đáng kể trong những tháng gần đây.
Thật vậy, anh ấy đang lái xe tốt như anh ấy đã từng làm và điều này đến với anh ấy chỉ vài tháng trước sinh nhật lần thứ 42 của anh ấy.
He is showing that age really is just a number when it comes to racing in modern F1 and the likes of Kimi Raikkonen was also another example of that with him racing into his 40s for Alfa Romeo.
It’s something we might see more and more of in modern F1 as nutrition and sports science gets better and better, especially if the drivers stay in the sport throughout their 30s and remain in a strict regime of fitness and the rhythm of racing.
Michael Schumacher, of course, drove in F1 in his 40s but had a few years away from racing before his comeback and his results were not quite up to where he wanted them to be.
Had he been in F1, or another category, between his exit at the end of 2006 and comeback at the start of 2010, though, he may well have been able to produce similar displays to how Alonso is now.
Clearly, that is what Coulthard thinks with him telling the Formula For Success podcast:
“When Alonso stepped away from F1 the first time, he went straight into sports cars, IndyCar, he did the Dakar, he’s got a kart track and you see him out testing his karts at his facility in Spain.
“There’s the expression, ‘don’t let the old man in.’ If you let the old man or the old woman in, that, ultimately, is what you end up becoming.
“I think, in comparison to Michael, who stopped and was no longer racing, then went and played on motorbikes and then had a crash and broke a vertebra and then came back to F1 three years after he’d originally stopped, he could still do go through the motions and was still an incredible individual, but just wasn’t as good as he had been before.
“I think it was that uninterrupted nature of Fernando’s time away from F1, as we saw with Kimi Raikkonen [in 2010 and 2011] cũng vậy – anh ấy đã đi biểu tình.
