A group of people armed with guns, standing shoulder to shoulder, are finding themselves being charged at by zombies.
“I don’t want to do this!” screams one of them. “I don’t want to do this!”
The footage, from inside one of London’s virtual reality game rooms, is enshrined on the phone of performance coach Michael Italiano. And the screaming voice belongs to a Formula 1 driver he works with, Yuki Tsunoda.
“Yuki hasn’t spent much time in London,” the Australian, formerly the trainer of his childhood friend Daniel Ricciardo, tells GP Racing. “And I’ve been living in London for six years so, when he got there, he was like, ‘Show me something I haven’t done yet’.
“And I knew he loves shooters! So I picked the scariest zombie game. But before we put our equipment on, I could see he looked really nervous. I’m like, ‘Are you okay, mate?’ And he goes, ‘I don’t like zombies!’ And I was like, ‘Look, you’ll be fine’. And he goes, ‘No, no, no, can we change this?’ And I’m like, ‘No, it’s too late, right? We are in here, we’re doing it’.
“So, right at the start, when the first zombie comes at us, he’s screaming! He’s like, ‘I just want to back out’. But then he loved it – he didn’t want to take the
