One area that is not often spoken about when talking about performance is sleep!
However this is a crucial area of any top driver to get right as it affects so many
different parts of your performance.

Energy drinks like this do not improve performance. They just hit your pleasure center and make you feel good! There is no true substitute for sleep.

Getting enough sleep is equally as important as getting enough food and water, however many drivers forget this simple fact.

A recent study investigated the effect sleep deprivation had on reaction times. The action studied was simply pressing a button when the sound of a beep was heard.

The study found that reaction times of simply pressing the button dramatically decreased as sleep loss increased. A sleepy person is extremely unpredictable on this task whereby they are hearing a beat every ½ a second and then pressing the button. A well rested person is stable, predictable and does not struggle with this task at all.

As the sleepy person begins to miss beats they begin to overcompensate for these missed beats by pressing the button faster and more often, this results in an extremely strange and erratic pattern of results when compared to the regular stable presses of the well rested person with 8 hours sleep. If lack of sleep is causing erratic results on pressing a button, imagine the potential effects it is having on your driving where split second and accurate reaction is essential!