“But each category sees its own complications. If you look into a faster car with more downforce, it also requires more braking force, which then requires more pneumatic assistance for me to achieve the same brake pressure as an able-bodied driver. With the TCR car, the Hyundai Elantra, you have to apply the brake very hard.
Even though Wickens, who along with wife Karli are expecting their first child in mid-July, has had to get used to totally different technology to compete behind the wheel, yet some things are the same, kind of“It's like riding a bike, but it's a very different bike, I guess is the best way to describe it,” Wickens said. “Racing has been my life since I was seven years old. It's something I worked very hard to get to the level I was at when I was racing in IndyCar in 2018.
“A TCR car has quite a bit of space inside of the cockpit to fit some of the hand control devices that we need. IndyCar is a whole new can of worms.”