Daniel Ricciardo: Daily Routine

F1 racing might look like sitting, but Ricciardo’s routine says otherwise — all core strength, hydration, and total focus.

It can be difficult for people to comprehend the intense physical and mental requirements for Formula One race driving. After all, you’re sitting in the car all day, how hard can it be? Well, it can be pretty damn hard.

Similar to how you might not realise that chess players can burn up to 6,000 calories a day, there is an enormous amount of training that F1 drivers need to go through to maintain the level of concentration and physical toll of taking corners at 150 kilometres per hour on a regular basis.

For Italian-Australian F1 driver, Daniel Ricciardo, he considers it a part of the job to educate the wider public on this. “People can go play basketball for an hour and understand how hard it is and how physical it is. They can go play football or something else,” Ricciardo said in an interview with supplement company Thorne.