RJ Hamster
Chasing Alex Palou and INDYCAR’s Dominant Team
Chasing Alex Palou, INDYCAR Drivers Have 2 Choices: Acceptance Or Anger
When a driver is so thoroughly dominant for so long, one of two things happens to the rest of the competition.
The first choice is accepting the inevitable. You end up thinking, “They are truly unbeatable. There is nothing I can do. I am racing for second place.”
When you think like that, he has already beaten you. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you see him in your mirror, you assume he is going past. If you pit with him behind you, you expect him to leave in front. And when that’s your attitude, that’s exactly what happens.
The other choice is to get mad.
Drivers hate to lose as much as they love to win. Use the feeling of getting beat as fuel to do more, push further, train harder. Study the data. Review the video of onboards to find any little thing you can do better. Whatever you have to do to beat the guy.
But it can’t just be the driver. This is a team sport, after all, and you need to motivate your whole crew to embrace the anger and frustration of losing to get the best out of themselves. Get so mad at losing that you refuse to let him win.
It is certainly easier said than done, but the competition getting better is a lot more likely than Palou slowing down at any point in the near future.
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