Does your partner think track days are pointless? Well, tell them to think again...
This story might have the faint whiff of a slow news day about it but it’s also quite a nice, feel-good story worth sharing. Especially if you enjoy a track day or two but are finding the cost hard to justify at the moment. Or perhaps you haven’t yet had the pleasure of a day at Oulton Park or Snetterton, or any number of circuits that will let you hoon around for a few hours for a fee, and need something to give you that final push.
Anyway, this isn’t me pontificating on health matters. This is intelligent people. People from Loughborough University, which is one of the leading Sports Science universities in the world . And Abarth. Which, err, make fast Fiats. The nub of the story is, and I quote, ‘driving a car around a racetrack significantly boosts a person’s mood compared to a gym workout.’ How great is that?
The type of exercise makes a difference to the disparity between this gym and track happiness rating. If you regularly do cardio workouts, for example, then you will be much better off running around in a car than on a treadmill. To put a figure on it, the research found you’ll be precisely 116 per cent happier pushing the limits in a car. That's a big uplift. However, if you prefer to do weights, then your mood will still be better after a stint behind the wheel, but only by four per cent.
Precision driving is good, too. You’ll be 20 per cent happier if the track requires precision driving compared with a gym workout consisting of a cardio and weights session, and 63 per cent happier compared with just a cardio session. Which explains why F1 drivers love Monaco so much. There you were thinking it was just the beautiful people, the parties and the glamour, but no: happiness is enhanced by perfect car placement.
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