Can smell make you drive faster on the track? Contributing editor therealbrettberk looked into an MIT experiment which investigated the impact of smells on a racecar drivers performance. “Stress and driving are strongly correlated, and there’s a lot of research around that topic,” says Awu Chen, a research assistant in the MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group. “And there have been other studies that have measured the impact of scent on regular driving, for example, using mint to keep people awake.” Read more about the impacts of smell on driving at the link in our bio. #racecar #simulator #carsofinstagram #roadandtrack Photos by quesofrito