Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing is counting the days until its new 100,000-square-foot facility in Zionsville, Indiana, is fully operational. “It has been an opportunity to build a weight room and a program from the ground up, one that thinks outside the box in terms of optimizing performance,” Harber said. “This is something that fire departments have been utilizing recently,” Harber said of the practice. Harber called optimizing sleep “a passive advantage” to the team members. Given the emphasis on hydration, Harber has partnered with Skratch Labs to perform sweat analysis testing on team members to help improve concentration during a long and tiring race weekend. Drivers who perform in hot cockpits have long understood its value, but Harber said crew members wearing helmets and heavy gear should be in tune with their bodies, too.

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