Race Car Drivers Bathroom Breaks

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Race car drivers bathroom breaks.

But when that need for relief comes along the drivers can t get out of their cars in. Driving for three hours in a boiling hot nascar can get a little messy sometimes jeff gordon elliott sadler matt kenseth kyle larson joey logano and mo. The sport s most popular driver added it only happens once or twice a season to him when he s racing. Stopping for a bathroom break is not an option and carefully manoeuvring urine into a bottle might not end well.

However you can reduce how often you need to stop by timing your liquid intake. It may take practice but trying to hold off drinking until you are about 1 1 5 hours from your next stop. The truth is nascar drivers are real people just like you and me and they use the bathroom just like us one leg at a time. David schenk from the sadler racing team told me just prior to a race you will see all of the drivers hitting the bathroom.

Not taking necessary bathroom breaks can lead to health problems most commonly urinary tract infections uti s. No wait i must be thinking of something else because the merchants of speed have their own unique ways of passing water. Additional requirements related to restroom facilities and bathroom break policies are outlined in osha s sanitation standards 29 cfr 1910 141 29 cfr 1926 51 and 29 cfr 1928 110. With the amount of racing they all do i m sure most of them have at one time or another.

In the tour and many other big races the race leader the guy wearing the yellow jersey is king. If he has to go he can call a bathroom break whenever he desires says stephen hall a.