Nico Rosberg built custom software to train his cognitive processing speed
Nico Rosberg · Nico Rosberg on the Booming Business of F1 | All-In Live from Miami · May 29, 2025 · at 5:02
Former F1 World Champion Nico Rosberg details how he trained his brain reaction time and sensory processing speed while competing in Formula One.
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“I even had a computer program, which I developed just for myself, actually, where I would have all these different inputs, so audio, touch, tactile had like a thing around here and even then visual on the computer, and I would be Catching these inputs, like, and trying to break my record, and the faster I would go, the faster the program would go. So I was trying to develop these kind of things that to train my brain to move faster and react quicker.”
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