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Robbie Anderson

Robbie Anderson

Dr Robbie Anderson is a UK performance psychologist, Head of Performance Psychology at Hintsa Performance (Formula 1) and Director of Performing Minds.

Sep 18, 2026

13:10
Maybe I should give my mum a ring.
13:11
Yeah.
13:12
Yeah.
13:13
You know, I'm not a robot.
13:15
I'm not a robot.
13:16
That's one race weekend.
13:17
There's three of them back to back and you travel in cross time zones.

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19:09
one I
13:01
Do you have, do they have pictures of when it was
13:06
first opened? Have you ever seen any? So we definitely are always on the search, you know, like as people like kind of pass away and, you know, pictures get moved around and thrown away and stuff like that.
13:15
I do have some like 90s, you know, late 80s pictures.
13:19
But not very many.
13:21
Actually, in my office, I have a huge frame.
13:23
My uncle actually gave it to me when I bought the business.
13:26
But it's a huge, like, you know, portrait, and it's my grandfather and his brother.

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51:59
You know,
25:25
and some will be a proactive approach and i know we've talked offline about the role of things like kind of simulators and mental rehearsal what are the kind of the proactive ways that drivers and performers in this world are kind of using psychological principles and some of the modern tools that we have to form better to get better at their sport
25:45
There is definitely the use of simulators.
25:47
I mean, the simulators in Formula 1, for starters, you know, they might have a foam simulator, which is a little bit like what you might imagine seeing in an arcade, you know, where you can see the kind of seat and steering wheel and everything else.
26:00
Now, Don't want to undervalue how different the home simulator is compared to our arcade ones.
26:05
They're very...
26:07
When they're programmed well, when they're calibrated well, they give a good...
26:13
For race lines, for breaking points, for other kind of track-specific bits of information, they're really helpful.
30:29
Are you on turf? Are you on, you know, are you in a dome? Are you on, you know, a 3G surface? And, you know, all of that is still hard to replicate.

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