F1 drivers are more fit.
(Regardless of ability) a F1 driver could easily play a full football match. Whilst a footballer could not go a race distance without blacking out or his neck snapping. In fact, not even a driver from another category could go a race distance without proper F1 fitness training.
I bet anybody with excellent fitness would be fine in an F1 race.
No
They would have to have to specialise (work on, neck muscles and everything etc).
I would say I have good fitness and know some with excellent, but they don't have a hope in hell of drving an F1 car. Physically.
I agree that they would have to work on neck muscles, but if F1 drivers have to be so physically fit. How was JPM able to race in F1 than?
Montoya was not poorly fit... and in fact I can bet that even JPM was able to play not one, but two football matches (at reasonable mediocrity) in a day during his F1 yrs. While even the fittest football player would not be able to do a race distance (at reasonable mediocrity), without crashing due to either fatigue, the neck giving up or the brain shutting down for a 'split second' due to lack of oxygen.
You want to talk strictly fitness, think about that 'Iron Man' stuff and those extreme distance swimming or marathon guys... not football players. They need to be fit, but they need MUCH more ability than fitness to be great.
Came out fighting indeed.
