Loughborough University in the UK, together with Abarth, studied how driving affects a person's mood. It turned out that a day on the race track can make a person twice as happy as going to the gym.
During the experiment, the project team studied the facial expressions and heart rate of the participants. Each participant was also given a medical watch and self-assessment sheets to measure mood after driving on the track and exercising in the gym.
On average, participants were 59% happier after driving around the race track than after a workout at the gym. By type of exercise, compared with track driving, participants' mood increased 4% less after strength training, 20% less after strength training and cardio training, and 116% less after cardio training.
Interestingly, the subjects did not even need to drive for their mood to improve after driving on the track. Being in the passenger seat next to a professional driver made the participants 77% happier than a workout consisting of cardio and strength training.
Source: Carscoops