Schumacher and the simulator sickness

You can be seven times F1 World Champion and be sick in a simple simulator... This is the case of Michael Schumacher, often forced to cut short his sessions in front of the screens.

Published on 26/01/2011 à 09:53

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Is this one of the reasons for his lack of performance in 2010? Perhaps one of the factors. Michael Schumacher unable to string together long sessions in the heart of the simulator Mercedes while his teammate, and all the other drivers, accumulate hours and hours of virtual driving.

For the first time, the Mercedes team admitted its driver's illness: “Throughout his career, Michael may have been affected by this motion sickness which affects his time spent in the simulator. »

Motion sickness is commonly called motion sickness or travel sickness and affects individuals in cars, trains, boats, planes, horseback riding, in space or in virtual reality. This is the case for Michael Schumacher.

If this lack of time in the simulator was not as annoying during his "first" career, the German is now paying dearly for this motion sickness while private tests are now very limited.