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It\u2018s important that the race calender is well balanced so that drivers can get proper rest periods in order to be able to push 100 percent at each event.<\/p>\nIt\u2018s important that the race calender is well balanced so that drivers can get proper rest periods in order to be able to push 100 percent at each event.<\/p>\n
Excerpts from the interview:<\/strong><\/p>\n What\u2019s the benefit of back to back races?<\/strong><\/p>\n The positive is that on the Friday of the second race, you get into the rhythm quickly. You save time by travelling direct from one race to the next and can adapt to the time zone a bit quicker, as you don\u2018t have to travel so far. The only thing is that there\u2018s not much time for physical and mental recovery after the first race.\n<\/p>\n How do you adapt your preparation and training with back to back races?<\/strong><\/p>\n I make the most of the Monday after the first race, in terms of relaxing and recovery. On the Tuesday, I do some easy training in the gym or some badminton, to keep the body and mind in correct mode.<\/p>\n Do you prefer to go from one race to the next or to have a longer gap between races?<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2018s important that the race calender is well balanced so that drivers can get proper rest periods in order to be able to push 100 percent at each event. This means that sometimes it is good to have back to back races and then some longer breaks.<\/p>\n Tell us something of the circuit in Bahrain<\/strong> <\/p>\n The corners can fool you and lead to errors because the track is very wide and quite often the apex of the corner is not obvious. For example the apex of Turn 14 is hidden as you approach it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Excerpts from the interview:<\/strong><\/p>\n What\u2019s the benefit of back to back races?<\/strong><\/p>\n The positive is that on the Friday of the second race, you get into the rhythm quickly. You save time by travelling direct from one race to the next and can adapt to the time zone a bit quicker, as you don\u2018t have to travel so far. The only thing is that there\u2018s not much time for physical and mental recovery after the first race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-interview"],"yoast_head":"\nIt\u2018s important that the race calender is well balanced so that drivers can get proper rest periods in order to be able to push 100 percent at each event.<\/p>\n