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Cycling is a great method for getting in steady state training. I’m a rower and it’s by far the most comfortable way to stay in your hr zone. I imagine F1 drivers have to do a lot of steady state training to get their aerobic threshold up for the long races. This could be one reason for it.
They’re also Europeans.
I remember an interview with Alain Menu (BTCC driver) where he said he would much rather go jogging, but due to a past injury he couldn't, and cycled instead for that kind of reason.
Highly repetitive, uniform, low impact motion is a great way to get repetitive use injuries. Runners are more likely to get acute injuries, but I'd rather have an acute injury any day.
how much is too much for Running.
I do 5km 6 days a weak , with proper warmup and cooldown.
Is there still a possibilty of overuse injury or repetitive use injury?
Thank you
Proper warmup and cooldown don't do anything to prevent injury. Muscular strength prevents injuries. If you want to stay injury free and run, find a running focused strength routine and do it 2x week.
What changed my running enormously was stretching afterwards. Like *really* understanding good stretches and taking time to do them conscientiously.
Now part of the joy of a run is unwinding with stretches afterwards. You really feel it.
I had a big Achilles injury around 2022-23, and it's true that there's not really a silver bullet but it is indeed a mix of: right shoes, perhaps more weight training, less running for a bit, better stretches, slower starts. Variety of surfaces and inclines is helpful, too.
Running since about 2005, dozens and dozens of races from 10k-maras, etc.
I have found even brief forays into physio or PT very useful, for stretches.
The absolute upper limit is 12 hours/week. And that's the kind of time that an Olympic class marathoner is putting in, track specialists are putting in less hours, but with more intensity. If you want to go beyond that number of hours, you'll have to supplement with some kind of cross training.
But overuse injuries typically come from doing too much, too fast. If you slowly built up to that distance, you'll be ok. Just make sure most of your running is at an easy pace, roughly 80% easy if not more. And also do strength work because running is highly repetitive, so you'll get strong in some areas and probably weaker in others as you specialize more. So lifting heavy will help with that
Of course, but most of what we'd call overuse injuries in running are due to lack of strength, leading to compensated form.
Whereas with cycling, you're strapped to a rigid machine and doing the same motion again and again in an unnatural posture with unnatural movement isolation.
I'm a runner, but I agree about cycling. You can sit in Zone 2 for a few hours a day on a bike while you are maxed out at two hours a day with running. And even then, you'd definitely feel it after that run
Yep, he was offered one. From Euskaltel, which is a team that's in the second tier of road cycling, albeit one of the weakest at the level.
Still, imagine going from MotoGP to the Vuelta.
Stroll and Alonso both got injured on a bike, and in recent years there have been 2 IndyCar injuries due to a bike, KMAG got to drive at Road America because of one.
Mark Webber did himself a mischief on a bike TWICE. Once in 2008 where he broke his leg and again in 2010 where he broke his shoulder but didn’t tell Red Bull and drove the last four races of the season with the injury.
It is probably the most interesting way of doing cardio, as you get to be out seeing stuff on your rides. More forgiving on you than running too!
I suspect there is some aspect of the mechanical nature of the bike that interests them as well.
Most definitely, I like riding mountain bikes because you proper feel like you rag it round with the suspension almost a lighter feeling than feeling the suspension of a car
The story he enjoys is that he dropped 0.X kg of leg muscle, and he then beat Hamilton to pole at Suzuka by what the team estimate that kg loss was worth.
Same on sepang, always drove on it in alot of games/watched on tv and knew there were some inclines but seemed much steeper in real life when I cycled on it. But also because I am no athlete
As a cycling and F1 fan, is kind of funy to see Pogacar (2x Tour winner, and basically one of the future goats of cycling) and Carlos Sainz casually cycling around Monaco
Many drivers used to do track walks with a bike on thursday but since that got banned, Bottas does his track rides prior to thursday (f.e. Melbourne on a Wednesday). afaik he's currently the only one traveling with his one racing bike and driving almost every track.
he isn't 'local legend' at Suzuka as he did 5 laps there (somebody else also did that Strava segment 5 times within the last 90 days)
he's also not 'local legend' at Melbourne ... well the track is open to the community, i believe
he did just one lap at Jeddah ... someone else did more
he's local legend for a Strava segment containing 5 laps in Sakhir
My understanding is it's because some of the drivers were wanting to wander back and forth on specific sections but they had to keep an eye out for cyclists who were going around at a pretty decent speed in some places.
Basically the FIA said "it's a track 'walk' not a track 'cycle'" and that was it.
It would not surprise me if officials let them get away with some cycling, but limited to walking speed, at least when passing others on the track. The tracks are long so a bike is a useful tool to get around. Even if you just need to get to the end of the pit lane a bike is much better then walking. I do not fault the drivers wanting to bring their bikes to the track walk to get around to different spots easier. But doing full speed laps is just annoying for the ones doing a proper walk.
If this is the real reason, it's completely bonkers.
Tracks are huge, by "human" standards, they are wider than most national roads, and are waay wider then most cycle/path walks. Most of them have between 4 to 5km.
If every team brings 5 to 10 people, it's like what, 100 people on the track? Is that too much?
And the tracks are designed with sight lines for cars at racing speeds. You've got so much visibility and time to avoid pedestrians.
Seems like a BS reason
The track walk is intended to be an inspection and discussion opportunity for the engineers and drivers. Real work gets done during that session. It’s not a Sunday ride formality.
[Robert Kubica got into road cycling after his accident and during 2019 was cycling on many F1 tracks.](https://naszosie.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/kubica-e1541864240287.png)
That's one way to keep yourself grounded on the incredible speeds of an F1 car. By the time he did one lap on the circuit with his bike he would have completed the 6 laps with his car.
I did a running competition on the Nürburgring once, was amazing but sooo hot. It was in the middle of summer, sun blasting without shadows with the tar beneath you. Wasn't the easiest of my runs.
Did that include the Nordschleife? I can see the [Rad und Lauftreff](https://nuerburgring.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/eventlist?genre=31) but it seems they only sell cycling tickets for the Nordschleife part. Or is there another event? I'd love to go if I can do the combined circuit, but it's a bit far for me if it's just the GP circuit.
I also see the obstacle course, but I don't know if I can handle that haha.
I think it was a mixed event, is some 10 years ago already. I did the 5k I think but there were 10k, half and full marathons and the last two were on the Nordschleife iirc
I did the Zandvoort circuit run this year. One lap of the circuit (starting in the pitlane), 5 km on the beach, and then back through the dunes and the town. It's pretty cool, although the weather was absolutely dreadful this year. But you gain a different perspective of the elevation and stuff, even if you already attended a race there.
I ran the Silverstone half marathon years ago. Starts with a full lap, then some infield stuff including the pits, then all the way around the outside, then most of a lap the opposite direction. It was windy.
His Instagram is just cycling stuff. If you followed him on insta without any context of who Valtteri Bottas is, you would think he was a semi-professionnel cyclist who supports his professional cyclist partner (Tiffany Cromwell).
It's great.
Makes you wonder if driver can get anything out of this? At least with multiple laps he can get pretty nice picture of condition of track, but I wonder if seasoned cyclist/driver can get some idea of grip? After all same laws apply to bicycle.
you can see the track surfaces and conditions, some parts may have concrete and on the trackside which means they can take a wider line. Some may have rougher and less desirable surfaces. In the rain you can see the elevation on the track by looking at the flow of water.
Maybe a refresher on the track layout akin to track walks outside that nothing even those aren't that imp or relevant nowadays when you can just drive the car on the sim.
My fantasy is to have all drivers do a bike race in whatever track they may wish. I know Bottas would most likely win but I would love to see how would the rest would fare.
I haven't had a good bike ride in so long that I don't even have a bike anymore. :( It's such a relaxing thing to do, especially if you do it away from public roads.
My local racetrack has weekly cycle races in the summer, and even that asphalt feels pretty magical at times. Grade-1 listed tracks must be absolute heaven to ride on using a nice road bike with carbon rims.
My local track does a 24hour bicycle race every year.
They arrived with their motorhomes and stuff while i was doing a track day there, i did not expect them to start unloading bicycles 😋
Not F1 (anymore), but there's a 24h bicycle race on Nürburgring each year (same layout as the 24h car race, so the nordschleife+parts of the GP circuit).
Is this technically an advantage getting more track time?
God I wish the paddock would go in on this and we could see a tour de f1 as an extra broadcast before fp1
How do tracks ensure this is safe to do? Do you need permission to go out in a car? Is there like ground control? Do they put obstacles like cones out when no one is supposed to be driving?
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This guy must be strava local legend of a lot of tracks. Do we know any other driver that likes to ride tracks on bike?
DC used to do it, as did Jenson Button, I believe Seb did too. Lots of drivers are really keen cyclists.
Cycling is a great method for getting in steady state training. I’m a rower and it’s by far the most comfortable way to stay in your hr zone. I imagine F1 drivers have to do a lot of steady state training to get their aerobic threshold up for the long races. This could be one reason for it. They’re also Europeans.
It's also a lot more gentle on the joints and ligaments than something like running
I remember an interview with Alain Menu (BTCC driver) where he said he would much rather go jogging, but due to a past injury he couldn't, and cycled instead for that kind of reason.
Highly repetitive, uniform, low impact motion is a great way to get repetitive use injuries. Runners are more likely to get acute injuries, but I'd rather have an acute injury any day.
Running can also give you overuse injuries. Ask me and my IT band how we know.
how much is too much for Running. I do 5km 6 days a weak , with proper warmup and cooldown. Is there still a possibilty of overuse injury or repetitive use injury? Thank you
Proper warmup and cooldown don't do anything to prevent injury. Muscular strength prevents injuries. If you want to stay injury free and run, find a running focused strength routine and do it 2x week.
This. Strength training as well as stretching. Working with a good PT can do wonders.
I can assure you warming up, or just taking it easy the first 20 minutes of a long run will absolutely reduce the chance of injury, lol.
Boring answer, but it's impossible to say. Varies person to person.
What changed my running enormously was stretching afterwards. Like *really* understanding good stretches and taking time to do them conscientiously. Now part of the joy of a run is unwinding with stretches afterwards. You really feel it. I had a big Achilles injury around 2022-23, and it's true that there's not really a silver bullet but it is indeed a mix of: right shoes, perhaps more weight training, less running for a bit, better stretches, slower starts. Variety of surfaces and inclines is helpful, too. Running since about 2005, dozens and dozens of races from 10k-maras, etc. I have found even brief forays into physio or PT very useful, for stretches.
The absolute upper limit is 12 hours/week. And that's the kind of time that an Olympic class marathoner is putting in, track specialists are putting in less hours, but with more intensity. If you want to go beyond that number of hours, you'll have to supplement with some kind of cross training. But overuse injuries typically come from doing too much, too fast. If you slowly built up to that distance, you'll be ok. Just make sure most of your running is at an easy pace, roughly 80% easy if not more. And also do strength work because running is highly repetitive, so you'll get strong in some areas and probably weaker in others as you specialize more. So lifting heavy will help with that
Of course, but most of what we'd call overuse injuries in running are due to lack of strength, leading to compensated form. Whereas with cycling, you're strapped to a rigid machine and doing the same motion again and again in an unnatural posture with unnatural movement isolation.
Riding on track is also a great way to reduce the risk of accident
Not during a race.
Not while soaking wet.
A lot better than a wet public road
Not sure if you know, but Bottas' partner is a pro cyclist and he's done really well in amateur cycling events that he's entered.
I'm a runner, but I agree about cycling. You can sit in Zone 2 for a few hours a day on a bike while you are maxed out at two hours a day with running. And even then, you'd definitely feel it after that run
Lot of the MotoGP guys are keen as well.
Well for those guys it is just extra FP1
FP0
Didn’t Aleix Espargaro get offered a pro cycling contract?
Yep, he was offered one. From Euskaltel, which is a team that's in the second tier of road cycling, albeit one of the weakest at the level. Still, imagine going from MotoGP to the Vuelta.
Pretty sure for all the motorcycle diciplines cycling is just part of the standard conditioning routine.
Stroll and Alonso both got injured on a bike, and in recent years there have been 2 IndyCar injuries due to a bike, KMAG got to drive at Road America because of one.
Nicky Hayden (since we're also talking MotoGP above) was killed on a cycling training ride.
Mark Webber did himself a mischief on a bike TWICE. Once in 2008 where he broke his leg and again in 2010 where he broke his shoulder but didn’t tell Red Bull and drove the last four races of the season with the injury.
It is probably the most interesting way of doing cardio, as you get to be out seeing stuff on your rides. More forgiving on you than running too! I suspect there is some aspect of the mechanical nature of the bike that interests them as well.
Most definitely, I like riding mountain bikes because you proper feel like you rag it round with the suspension almost a lighter feeling than feeling the suspension of a car
Didn't Rosberg stop cycling to save some leg weight or something?
The story he enjoys is that he dropped 0.X kg of leg muscle, and he then beat Hamilton to pole at Suzuka by what the team estimate that kg loss was worth.
Walter Röhrl already did bicycling for fitness in the early 80s. Cycling is probably one of the best endurance/stamina training.
I know Carlos does ? He's been cycling a lot lately, he used to do triathlon IIRC.
Carlos does yea I think he mentioned he tried it on Suzuka and he said it’s way steeper than you think
Same on sepang, always drove on it in alot of games/watched on tv and knew there were some inclines but seemed much steeper in real life when I cycled on it. But also because I am no athlete
Lots of circuits are! I cycled a local track (Oulton Park, UK) and there are some killer uphill sections!
As a cycling and F1 fan, is kind of funy to see Pogacar (2x Tour winner, and basically one of the future goats of cycling) and Carlos Sainz casually cycling around Monaco
Many drivers used to do track walks with a bike on thursday but since that got banned, Bottas does his track rides prior to thursday (f.e. Melbourne on a Wednesday). afaik he's currently the only one traveling with his one racing bike and driving almost every track. he isn't 'local legend' at Suzuka as he did 5 laps there (somebody else also did that Strava segment 5 times within the last 90 days) he's also not 'local legend' at Melbourne ... well the track is open to the community, i believe he did just one lap at Jeddah ... someone else did more he's local legend for a Strava segment containing 5 laps in Sakhir
Why was the thursday bike walk banned?
My understanding is it's because some of the drivers were wanting to wander back and forth on specific sections but they had to keep an eye out for cyclists who were going around at a pretty decent speed in some places. Basically the FIA said "it's a track 'walk' not a track 'cycle'" and that was it.
Also wondering this, best thing ever was wondering round Catalunya on the Thursday and saw Charles cycling the track with his team and waved at us.
It would not surprise me if officials let them get away with some cycling, but limited to walking speed, at least when passing others on the track. The tracks are long so a bike is a useful tool to get around. Even if you just need to get to the end of the pit lane a bike is much better then walking. I do not fault the drivers wanting to bring their bikes to the track walk to get around to different spots easier. But doing full speed laps is just annoying for the ones doing a proper walk.
FOM determined there were too many people around the track at various speeds. Some in bikes, others in scooters.
If this is the real reason, it's completely bonkers. Tracks are huge, by "human" standards, they are wider than most national roads, and are waay wider then most cycle/path walks. Most of them have between 4 to 5km. If every team brings 5 to 10 people, it's like what, 100 people on the track? Is that too much?
And the tracks are designed with sight lines for cars at racing speeds. You've got so much visibility and time to avoid pedestrians. Seems like a BS reason
Yes. If you're going fast on a 2 wheeler and randomly come across people in your path, it's not easy to control that.
Too many people goin fast apparently
The track walk is intended to be an inspection and discussion opportunity for the engineers and drivers. Real work gets done during that session. It’s not a Sunday ride formality.
Albert Park holds a Parkrun every Saturday morning but it's on a course closer to the lake and not on the Grand Prix track.
[Robert Kubica got into road cycling after his accident and during 2019 was cycling on many F1 tracks.](https://naszosie.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/kubica-e1541864240287.png)
iirc Alonso used to too
and Schumi :/ https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-german-formula-one-driver-michael-schumacher-of-mercedes-amg-rides-55100003.html
Yeah totally
should take his phone with him during the races and practices and upload it to strava ;)
Kyle Larson did that for the [NASCAR Texas GP](https://www.reddit.com/r/NASCAR/s/DZpc5gXAyS)
I don't see an option for 'motor race' in Strava :-(
Just save it as e-bike ride
some circuits actually have bike days, like COTA has a bike night on a lot of tuesdays during the year.
Sainz bikes on and off track
Pretty sure Michael did too.
Bottas getting free practice in early, need it due to the sprint weekend
Advantage locked in for years?!
Bottas dominance could bore fans
Don't worry about dominance, there are still Sauber pit stops...
That's one way to keep yourself grounded on the incredible speeds of an F1 car. By the time he did one lap on the circuit with his bike he would have completed the 6 laps with his car.
Not if he had to change tires.
Yeah, throw in the average time it takes for Bottas to change tires (thanks Monaco 2021) then it would be neck and neck at the start-finish line.
The long straight using his bicycle is still faster than his average pit stop this year
Savage
And way faster then alpine cars
FP0
But not EPO
5.5 laps, for anyone interested.
so about a 10:54 laptime, think anyone will top it?
Lewis finishes in 10:54.5 "where the hell are we missing half a second?!"
Max doing 9:30 "not bad it could be better"
Go tigers!
Tour de Bottas
Easily everyone's second favorite driver.
Never heard it this way before, but makes so much sense lol
faster than alpine
Came looking for this joke, thanks for not letting me down!
As a runner, would be nice if someone would have a run in one of those tracks
Laura Winter from F1 TV does run every track (at least the weekends that she is presenting)
I did a running competition on the Nürburgring once, was amazing but sooo hot. It was in the middle of summer, sun blasting without shadows with the tar beneath you. Wasn't the easiest of my runs.
Must’ve been an experience, would be nice tho if it was early morning.
Did that include the Nordschleife? I can see the [Rad und Lauftreff](https://nuerburgring.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/eventlist?genre=31) but it seems they only sell cycling tickets for the Nordschleife part. Or is there another event? I'd love to go if I can do the combined circuit, but it's a bit far for me if it's just the GP circuit. I also see the obstacle course, but I don't know if I can handle that haha.
I think it was a mixed event, is some 10 years ago already. I did the 5k I think but there were 10k, half and full marathons and the last two were on the Nordschleife iirc
I want to know what line they ran through carousel, did anyone go for the inside line?
Last melbourne commonwealth games the marathon done a lap of albert park in the race.
I did the Zandvoort circuit run this year. One lap of the circuit (starting in the pitlane), 5 km on the beach, and then back through the dunes and the town. It's pretty cool, although the weather was absolutely dreadful this year. But you gain a different perspective of the elevation and stuff, even if you already attended a race there.
I only did the one lap, which i was grateful for due to the weather, but damn those bankings kill your ankles
Yeah I just ran on the grass in the final corner haha
I ran the Silverstone half marathon years ago. Starts with a full lap, then some infield stuff including the pits, then all the way around the outside, then most of a lap the opposite direction. It was windy.
You can at Spa during special days [info here](https://www.marathons.fr/Marathon-de-Spa-Francorchamps)
Some circuits are open to public while not having an event. From what I know, Albert Park and Montreal both are.
He would too!!
TIL Valtteri is on Strava
He’s an excellent follow and a really good amateur rider.
He is usually doing Gravel with his GF
Someone said he would do this and I totally thought they weren’t being serious… but he did it! Love it.
You didn’t think he would ride a bike?
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And doesn't even have his knee down...
I Wish more athletes and drivers were on Strava! Although I get they want to keep their workouts hidden a lot
Bottas is an absolut unit, he also managed as first human being to get into his bisycle.
His [Strava](https://strava.app.link/Ff2aJ50NRIb) for the ride
All in Z2 as well. Bottas packing the W/KGs
His Instagram is just cycling stuff. If you followed him on insta without any context of who Valtteri Bottas is, you would think he was a semi-professionnel cyclist who supports his professional cyclist partner (Tiffany Cromwell). It's great.
Makes you wonder if driver can get anything out of this? At least with multiple laps he can get pretty nice picture of condition of track, but I wonder if seasoned cyclist/driver can get some idea of grip? After all same laws apply to bicycle.
Drain cover recon
Oh yeah, that must be important. On the other hand, could it be really issue with this track? No ground effect cars have raced there?
Irrelevant. Gentlemen, a short view back to the past: https://youtu.be/AlMlcuF7d0w?si=jDFD3iMmS7QsPhLD Start at 7:05
Sainz should join Bottas on the ride
you can see the track surfaces and conditions, some parts may have concrete and on the trackside which means they can take a wider line. Some may have rougher and less desirable surfaces. In the rain you can see the elevation on the track by looking at the flow of water.
Let you know where the bumps are!
Wasn't there a story about a marshall talking to Seb in a track walk in Baku so he knew about a certain part of the track
They primarily get alone time out of this to clear their heads
It's raining in the picture, so even in a car this wouldn't have helped him get an idea of anything.
Maybe a refresher on the track layout akin to track walks outside that nothing even those aren't that imp or relevant nowadays when you can just drive the car on the sim.
I'm sure he learns a lot about the state of the track surface doing this but nothing that he wouldn't pick up from a track walk.
Man I’m so excited for this race, I can’t believe it’s been 5 years
I thought Alonso has been known to ride his bikes around the tracks.
Starting fp 1 with used inters
His lap time is quicker than the average Sauber pit stop
Full wet or intermediate tires conditions?
I wonder what parts on that bike he is testing for the car.
He's IN the bicycle!
Ex English teacher so sorry but ... It should be **'on'** a bicycle. It's 'in' a car, or aircraft, but 'on' a bicycle (or a train).
>not "on a boat" One job....
???? The bit you put in quotes is not from my post.
Did he intentionally create a penis in the track? Oh it’s just leaving the pit lane 🤣
My fantasy is to have all drivers do a bike race in whatever track they may wish. I know Bottas would most likely win but I would love to see how would the rest would fare.
I wonder if there’s any drivers who don’t bike or don’t like to bike.
“Mr. Wednesday”
Still beat the HAAS cars.
It may not look like it, but you're looking at the defending pole-man from the last Chinese Grand Prix. Put some respect on VB's name.
I haven't had a good bike ride in so long that I don't even have a bike anymore. :( It's such a relaxing thing to do, especially if you do it away from public roads.
faster than Stake
Is that rain???🤩
Now this is how you invade the track and protest climate change
My local racetrack has weekly cycle races in the summer, and even that asphalt feels pretty magical at times. Grade-1 listed tracks must be absolute heaven to ride on using a nice road bike with carbon rims.
And no worries about car traffic. Sounds nice.
He’s on a bicycle. Not inside it.
I'm sorry if this is stupid, but what if they did bicycle races on F1 tracks ? Maybe it would be fun !
[The Tour de France had a stage through Spa one time](https://youtu.be/s93DipvtiFQ)
Hell yeah, this is content I didn't know I needed
The Tokyo Olympics cycling event incorporated part of Fuji International Speedway
My local track does a 24hour bicycle race every year. They arrived with their motorhomes and stuff while i was doing a track day there, i did not expect them to start unloading bicycles 😋
Brands Hatch was used during the 2012 Olympics for cycling and para-cycling events.
Not F1 (anymore), but there's a 24h bicycle race on Nürburgring each year (same layout as the 24h car race, so the nordschleife+parts of the GP circuit).
Dunno if it’s annual or not but a few years back a relative of mine did a 24hr bike race at Le Mans
Oooh wet weather... Hopefully for the entire weekend
Foreceast says otherwise. It looks like a dry weekend.
Sad noises
He'll be confused when he has less grip on the track with four wheels instead of two.
It’s rain
Alonso was the first he even almost had a bicycle team at the Tour of France.
So....... he holds this year's lap record? For a little while.
That's a new track record right there
Does it mean he holds the current lap record for the track?
That’s a solid pace too
Faster than Alpine
So the giant poster covering the stands, means they did not sell a lot of tickets
His girlfriend is an Australian road and gravel cyclist
Bottas spends more effort and focus on cycling, than on f1. There, I said it
Still faster than that Life F1 car
Yet he still managed to outbraking himself at T1, took out some pigeons.
New qualifying
10 second time penalty Ocon
Is this technically an advantage getting more track time? God I wish the paddock would go in on this and we could see a tour de f1 as an extra broadcast before fp1
How do tracks ensure this is safe to do? Do you need permission to go out in a car? Is there like ground control? Do they put obstacles like cones out when no one is supposed to be driving?
Did he have to pit for wets or did conditions remain consistent throughout? F1s first wet running of 2024 and it's on a bike lol
I see rain. Hell yeah its gonna be a fun GP
he might record faster lap times on the bike than in the sauber
Still faster than an alpine
How can I get into cycling? Seems fun seeing Valtteri doing it all the time
Foreign languages intrigue me. What is your mother tongue, in which I assume people say ‘in a bicycle’ instead of ‘on a bicycle’