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Do you know what the top speed achieved in a Formula 1 car is?
Juan Pablo Montoya at the 2005 Italian Grand Prix according to google.
231.523mph.
Fastest average lap?
Juan Pablo Montoya in the 2004 Italian Grand Prix.
162.950mph
Fastest average race?
2003 Italian Grand Prix.
153.842mph.
F1’s slowest, tightest corner??
Turn 6, the hairpin, at Monaco.
Taken at around 31 mph.
Clearly a lot of speeding up and slowing down going on there.
As circumstance (the track and other cars) dictate.
If a driver attempted to do the same speed all the way round, he wouldn’t get very far.
Slowing down and speeding up isn’t just a nice to have in F1.
It’s absolutely essential.
As it is in most sports and activities.
Footballers don’t run at the same speed for 90 minutes.
Outside of short distance sprinters, I can’t think of anything where there’s not deliberate slowing down because of what’s happening at that point.
So…………
If it’s good enough for Lewis Hamilton………..
It should be good enough for us.
Slowing down.
And speeding up.
As circumstance dictate.
Life isn’t a sprint.
Very few of our goals are.
Healthy eating and exercise aren’t a sprint.
Neither are other lifestyle considerations (sleep, stress, hydration, etc).
They are a marathon.
An ultra-marathon.
More.
They never end.
We have to take the ‘corners’ of life.
By slowing down.
Not by stopping.
And leaving the track.
Still moving forwards, just not, perhaps, as fast as we sometimes have.
Then speeding up again when the ‘track’ allows.
Slowing down and speeding up as circumstance dictates isn’t a ‘nice to have’ in life.
It’s essential.
Much love,
Jon ‘son Button’ Hall
