The Discipline Behind the Adrenaline

From the outside, air racing looks like pure adrenaline, jets roaring past pylons, and the thrill of speed. But behind those minutes in the cockpit lies weeks, months, even years of preparation and discipline.

Discipline looks like:

• Long days in the hangar making sure every detail of the aircraft is safe.

• Endless checklists, paperwork, and inspections.

• Fitness routines to handle G-forces.

• Studying footage and walking through emergency procedures until they’re second nature.

  
  

The adrenaline lasts for minutes. The discipline takes a lifetime.

It’s the small, unglamorous, unseen routines that make racing possible.

The truth is: anyone can love the roar of an engine. But it takes discipline to love the grind that comes before it.

In Roswell, when the flag drops and the race begins, what we will feel in the cockpit will exist because of all the hours of detail, structure, and focus that came before.....

The discipline is the foundation of the pilot.