I'm Will.

Sports therapist and human performance coach. I work with racing drivers and the people who run their cars.

Will Pope laughing, headset round his neck, in Invicta Racing kit

How I got here.

I trained as a sports therapist and spent my early years in football and rugby. Fulham FC, Weymouth FC, an internship with Newcastle Red Bulls. Then a long stretch in public and private MSK clinics, getting the injured general public back to full fitness and function. That work teaches you to be practical. People want to get back to their lives, not to hear a lecture.

Motorsport came through karting. I started looking after young drivers with Body Clinic Performance, from WSK Euro Series up to GB3, and realised nobody was treating them as the athletes they are. A driver's neck, forearms, trunk and eyes are under load for hours, in heat, with their life depending on the next decision. That is a sport. So I coach it like one.

Then I started watching pit stops. Twenty people doing a repeated, loaded movement under pressure, dozens of times a weekend, and nobody breaking down the biomechanics. I film the stop, look at where the load goes through each role, and adjust the choreography. Faster stops, fewer injuries. Both at the same time, usually.

Sports vision runs through all of it. Drivers and crew are only as good as the information they take in, so I train the eyes and the reactions as deliberately as the body.

This season I am with Invicta Racing in FIA Formula 2 and Car Collection Motorsport in GT3 endurance racing. Before that, GT Cup with Innovation Racing and a one-off 12 Hours of Spa with Optimum Motorsport.

Qualifications

  • MSc Sports and Exercise Rehabilitation
  • BSc Sports Therapy
  • Extended Diploma in Sport and Exercise Sciences

If you want to talk any of this through, email me. I read everything myself.

From Fulham FC to Formula 2.

  1. Football and rugby

    Sports Therapist at Fulham FC and Weymouth FC, internship with Newcastle Red Bulls.

  2. MSK clinics

    Years in public and private injury clinics, getting people back to full fitness and function.

  3. Karting to GB3

    Body Clinic Performance. Looking after drivers from WSK Euro Series karting up to GB3.

  4. GT racing

    Trackside with Innovation Racing in GT Cup and a one-off 12 Hours of Spa with Optimum Motorsport.

  5. Formula 2 and GT3

    This season with Invicta Racing in FIA Formula 2 and Car Collection Motorsport in GT3 endurance.

Will Pope laughing, headset round his neck

Will Pope

Sports Therapist and Human Performance Coach

Want to talk it through?

Tell me what you are dealing with, which series, and when. I read everything myself and I will come back to you the same day where I can.