Words of wisdom from Formula 1's Top Gunth
The pressure of getting results in Formula 1 is very similar to horse racing
The following excerpts are taken from Surviving To Drive, a must-read book for any Formula 1 fan.
“The ups and downs of Formula 1 are what keep us going and what make us want to quit sometimes. That’s the truth. Elation is sometimes only a hundredth of a second away and the tiniest misjudgement can cause devastation. It’s fair to say that so far this season we’ve had more bad days than good, but today has been one of those days that we live for.”
“Week after week they hear talk about this great car we have and week after week we keep on failing to deliver. You really feel it in a small team. The highs are felt by everybody very keenly, but so are the lows. There’s no hiding place. I was going to try and speak to everybody to try and motivate them but they’ve heard it all before. There comes a time when you cannot motivate people just with words. The only things that will motivate this team of people at the moment are points and good results.”
As I wrote in the above subtitle, the pressure of getting results in Formula 1 is very similar to horse racing. The margins between feelings of heaven and hell are insanely tight in both sports. Guenther talks about how tiny fractions, such as a hundreth of a second, can make the difference between feelings of elation or devastation. This is not dissimilar to horse racing. For example, on Friday, SYS3 had one of its selections come agonisingly close to winning at 20/1 SP. It jumped the last slightly in front, but ultimately ended up finishing 3rd in a very tight three-way photograph finish, finishing just a nose and a short head behind the winner.
Some you win, some you lose!
"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill