Simracing fitness coach and actor Ralf Moeller makes the pilots fit.
“If you want to be competitive, you have to be in good mental and physical shape,” explains Moeller. “That means training and the right diet. Diet makes up 80 percent of that. During training, the focus is on the neck and back muscles. The young people should be motivated to work on being healthy.”
Because what applies on the real racetrack also counts in the simulator. If you still want to set top times after several laps, you need stamina and strong trunk muscles in order to be able to concentrate purely on the track performance.
The drivers of the Racer and Challenger League will also experience hard braking points and corners with high centrifugal forces in Monza at the weekend. The track is about 250 kilometers as the crow flies from Imola, where Formula 1 is running at the same time. However, the simracers are not on site in person, but pilot one of the simulators in the RU lounges in Zurich, Kemptthal, Cham, Munich and Madrid.
The drivers of the Racing Unleashed Championship start in Monza on Saturday and Sunday.
In the Racer League, Michal Smidl leads the table after two out of ten competitions. The runner-up for the 2021 season has a 15-point lead over Javier Loro. The German Angelo Michel is in third place.
The qualifying race in Monza will again be particularly interesting. In reverse order of the championship, the pilots start in an elimination run. After a few introductory laps, the last pilot is eliminated after each lap and starts the subsequent main race in the corresponding position. In other words: Smidl has to start the qualifying race from last place, Nico Fahland is allowed to start from pole as the championship leader.
