PURE | CALM - Hey, it's mixed class Le Mans endurance racing.

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Basically, I just ate two granola bars before the race, and had a bottle of water and a can of Amp on my table where my Wheel/TV are.
 
Was very great racing with you guys in the beginning. Kept making stupid little mistakes over and over and kept losing any advantage I had gained after falling to the back. Usually don't make alot of mistakes so gotta say one of my worst races for myself driving wise, but still had a ton of fun there.
 
Awesome video Otto, make more! xD then I will :)

That was definitely an epic drag race down that really narrow straight, good job to both of you keeping the balance between you whilst still having a straight on game of chicken 👍
 
It was for JGTS..

Basically, it's all about what you eat and drink.

If you eat "fast" carbohydrates, your blood sugar levels will drop too low in the end of the race.
A "fast" carbohydrate is any kind of candy, soda, redbull, pasta and rice with short cooking time. I.e 3-5 minutes (pasta).
The longer it takes to boil your pasta, the less processed the base food is..
The less processed the food is (close to the natural and pure format of the food), the slower your body will distribute it to your body.
The slower carbohydrates will not rush out in your blood, it will provide you with a more even flow of energy.
So you can say that a meal containing "fast" carbohydrates and a meal containing "slow" carbohydrates will give you the same amount of energy.
But the slower carbonhydrates will supply your body in an even pace over a longer period of time, and the fast ones will "throw" the energy out in your body, giving you a "kick" of energy, that lasts for a maximum of ~30 minutes.. Then your energylevel will fall drasticly, and by the 1 hour mark, you have less energy in your body compared to what you had before you even took the meal.

It's a bit more complex than that, but it's enough information to highlight the importance of what you eat and drink.

When it comes to fluids, there's nothing that beat water.
Thirst is not a good indicator of your level of fluids inside your body. When you feel thirsty, your level is already too low.
Keeping in mind that your body can only reload the fluid stock with 1dl / hour, you'll not be able to get your level up during the race.
It's important to drink often, but in smaller doses to ensure you keep your levels at a decent level.
Beeing thirsty 30 minutes in to the race and as a result drink 1l of water in a minute will only make you to visit the bathroom, and still not getting your fluid levels up to par.

So basically:
Drink:
Make sure to start drinking water in small doses from 24 hours prior to race.
Do not drink soda or redbull or lemonade during the last 12 hours at least (if you feel that you need to drink something else than water).

Eat:
Look at your plate.. "Divide" it in 3 equaly sized fields.
1/3 wedgetebles
1/3 carbonhydrates (the slow kind. Something like 13-15 minute pasta).
1/3 Protein (Skip ham and red meat. Salmon, Chicken, Tuna and egg are good sources of protein).
Make sure to eat according to this model at least 36 hours prior to race.

Things you should NOT eat or drink from 36 hours prior race:
Candy in any form.
Chips/Snacks
Soda
Energydrinks (redbull, monster, powerade etc)
Anything that containes "fast" carbohydrates or high levels of sugar.
(Sugar is the same as carbonhydrates).

If you want to eat during the race, drink water, and eat something really basic like: Hard rye bread. Perhaps with some cheese on if you want it a bit more tasty.

I hope this makes sence.
This is a pretty complex subject, and I hope you guys understand what I tryed to say. 👍

Following these advices, I'm sure you'll notice that you won't feel like you lack concentration and stamina in the end of the race.
A 3 hour race will ofc in any curcuimstance be a tough task, but eating and drinking can help you to perform thru the entire race. 👍

Oh, just one more thing..
You can drink redbull or eat a candy bar when there's 15 minutes left of the race to boost your energy in the end of the race. Cause afterall, if your energy level sinks after the race, it won't be a problem (from a competative point of view).
However, energydrinks and candy are never good for your health. 👍
But if you win at LaSarthe, who cares about health.. ;)

This might be helpful to you Alex ;)
 
Yup, thanks for posting Jordan:

Hey guys a question. My World Sportscar Championship guys are running a 500 kilometre race of Le Mans 2005 NC this sunday. I know its less than what you guys ran, but it is still the longest race of our championship and longest I have ever run myself... would have any advice on how to condition yourself for the race? To stop your concentration from going?

Thread is here by the way, https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=251773

It was in the OP for a hot minute:

Endurance focus health preparation guide, don't just get the edge on track, in your body too!
By coach Denilson:

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=7188551#post7188551
 
Yes, Denilson is our resident physio, instructs soccer, runs teams, and has played it for a while in semi-pro leagues, so he knows what he's talking about 👍
 
Anyone do testing for GP/F?


First few laps seeing 1:58's. Definetly a 1:57 in me. Maybe just maybe a 56 with the perfect lap and tune. Still got some tweaking to do.
 
I'm still playing now despite my age.. :lol:
Still Semi-Pro, and earn the rest of my income from instructing and organizing the youth section in the club. And work part time as an Hotel Security guard.
For 3 years, I was a full-time player, but in a semi-pro league.. Had a good year the previous season so had a solid base to get a decent pay-cheque.

But from 25 (and counting) active years in football (no Eddie, not "soccer" ;) ), where most of my youth years was in one of Swedens biggest clubs, we had tons of health/food/gym classes in order to give us the tools we need to suceed aside from the actual game only.
And thru the years, I've learnt that it might not always feel perfect despite your efforts to eat and drink correct.
But what really does make an impact is when you eat and drink properly over a longer period of time.
In the beginning, your brain will start telling you that you need candy and stuff. That's a part of the brain that's called (directly translated from Sweedish) "reward-center".
It want you to "reward" your body with sweets..
So why is that?
It was'nt long ago that most of us on this planet had a limited supply of food.
If we go back only one century, we still needed the "reward center" to tell us that we need to eat when we get the chance.
Evolution takes a lot of time for a species that live in 75 year cycles.
The modern world and what it can offer us simply ran away from us too fast.
Now, while still beeing slaves to our "reward center", with the unlimited sources and channels to come across sweets have made us a fater species.

We can tame our "reward center" thru a strict diet.
Not strict as in no food.
Strict as in knowing what we're eating.
It's all about making your body used to less sugar/carbonhydrates. To a level that our bodies are still designed for.

I can guarantee that following a low carbonhydrate intakte will give you a healthyer body and feeling within 2 weeks. And within a mounth, you'll start to see results.
Add 2 sessions/week to exercize and results will show quickly.
It's all about motivation. And as we all know, if we can't see results, our motivation goes down.
So take a picture prior day 1, and always compare to that photo, and you'll see the results.
Just comparing with what you saw yesterday in the mirror will not give you any indication of your progress.

How much calories you can eat depends on how many calories you're using.
If you have an active job, you need to eat more carbonhydrates compared to if you're a multi-billionaire who only watch tv 7 days a week.

Something that can be worth mentioning is that when I refer to chicken as a source of protein (buils muscles), and mention pasta with long boiling time (13-15 minutes) as a good source of "slow" carbonhydrates is that both contain protein and carbonhydrates.
So why does chicken end up in the protein box, and pasta in the carbonhydrate box?
It's what the food contains most of that decides where it belongs.

The body need carbonhydrates, remember that.
But your body needs the right kind (slow) and the right amount of carbonhydrates.

When I'm in a period of 2 weeks without training, I remove the pasta from my plate and eat chicken and wedgetebles only.
A good sallad is defenetly a good way to make your meals tasty..

Here's a recepe to you who want to try something healthy and extremely good taste.

Cucumber
Tomato
Red Onion
Onion
Olives (not too much)
Feta cheese (not too much)
Walnuts
Bread croutons (not too much)
Alligator Pear
1/2 chicken

Slice all ingridients (not the chicken. The chicken can be go in ghe sallad slightly bigger) in small parts (1/2 inch pieces).
Add some *olive oil and vineger.
Add a tad of salt and black pepper and mix it all up. 👍

Last part:
*
Oil.. There's tons of different oils to use for cooking and eating.
There's 3 categorys of oil.
Oil from vegetables = vegetable oil
Oil from animals = animalic oil
Oil used to frie french fries in = Trans Fat

Oil from vegetables are much healthier than animalic and trans oil.
Some animalic oils are ok, but in smaller doses. Something like Omega 3 (from fish).
Trans Fat should be avoided at all costs.

Red meat and pork contain a lot of not desired animalic fat and should, if not be avoided, at least not base your food intake on it.
Birds and fish are good sources of protein.
Eggs and beans as well! 👍

That was it for this time.
I'm pretty interested in the subject and love to "talk" about it.. Hence this wall of text. :D:

Take care out there!
And I'll see you guys soon on track again!

Oh, just one more thing..
Since all in here are petrol heads, I'll try to explain it in short terms.
Protein = engine, tyres, Diff, Gearbox etc.
Carbonhydrates = Fuel
Vegtebles = the welding, bolts and screws that holds the car together..

How about that one? :) :cheers:
 
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Where'd you finish Joetruck? You signing up for this weeks ICGTC race at Tokyo?

Question 1: At the back of what was my pack before everyone started disconnecting them selfs. Me and Paul Mac where swapping spots though-out the pit windows, but I believe he had the more correct pit window than I. I couldn't stragized a pit sequence since I had no rain tires simulations done. I found out about the race 2 days before green flag. I would of loved more time to simulate, but now I'm looking forward to the Fall Round!

Question 2: I'll be dirt riding this Saturday at our local spot in Gorman California, so I'm only going to make Round 3 Unfornately, I love Tokyo especially in Rev (👍), so I not happy to miss this Round'



Rain couldn't be "dialed back" more than where it was at. So next time, when we do this as a spot race in late Fall of this year, there will be no rain.

Yes,... I was making my way up thru the pack with OwensRacing leading the way, and we caught up to the leaders when rain struck, and I made my 1st mistake in the wet.
 
Den loving your post man and theres some funny typo's too :).

Reading that i'm amazed that I am so thin lol. I don't eat much "wedgetables" ;) as I don't like most of there tastes, onions for e.g make me cringe if they somehow get into my mouth :yuck:. I eat alot of red meats (Steak , pork, beef burgers etc) and chips ofc :P. I eat alot of snack food too :lol:. Your recipe for e.g I only like chicken and cheese. (Unless its a disgusting blue one.)

Pluses being Scottish I eat a hell of alot of fish and we only use veggy oil :D. Whats haggis (Sheeps lungs etc) in healthy terms lol? :sly:

I'll point out i'm drastically underweight for my height and the national average even with all this ;). (48-50kgs 5ft 9/10)

Also what the hell is Alligator Pear? :confused:
 
Den loving your post man and theres some funny typo's too :).

Reading that i'm amazed that I am so thin lol. I don't eat much "wedgetables" ;) as I don't like most of there tastes, onions for e.g make me cringe if they somehow get into my mouth :yuck:. I eat alot of red meats (Steak , pork, beef burgers etc) and chips ofc :P. I eat alot of snack food too :lol:. Your recipe for e.g I only like chicken and cheese. (Unless its a disgusting blue one.)

Pluses being Scottish I eat a hell of alot of fish and we only use veggy oil :D. Whats haggis (Sheeps lungs etc) in healthy terms lol? :sly:

I'll point out i'm drastically underweight for my height and the national average even with all this ;). (48-50kgs 5ft 9/10)

Also what the hell is Alligator Pear? :confused:

Oh yea.. I was afraid a good few typo's should occur..
I have to blame some of them on my iPhone, and some of them on the time of night I'm at currently..
The rest (99,9%? :lol: ) is simply me not typing on my own language..

Thing with food and people is that we all react differently. You have a very high metabolism (most likely), so you'll stay thin no matter what you eat.
But just an advice: It's not all about your weight and what you see in the mirror.. It's what's happening inside your body that's not healthy.
I don't know you good enough to make statements about you, but in general, a lot of read meat and snacks will increase the risk of heart deceses for example. And you can't see that in the mirror.

If a guy who have a high metabolism and have trouble gaining weight, I'd suggest a lot of protein and the correct type of carbonhydrates and go to the gym.
The protein will help you build muscles.
Every time you go to the gym, you're braking down your muscles.
It's what you eat after your gym session and how much sleep you get that re-builds the muscles.
It's also important to eat soon after practice. The sooner, the better.

Alligator Pear.. I don't know.. But I thought it was english for something we call Avocado in Sweden.. Don't know where I got that from.. Lol
Perhaps Avocado says more to you.

Cheers mate
 
Haha yeah no doubt i'm a mess under my skin :lol:. (Aren't most Scots :dopey:?) So when you say protein and the correct type of carbs what foods would those be. I'm interiged as I actualy have been trying to put on a little weight and gain some muscle, got my own weights etc. (To aid me as a mechanic)

Btw you never answered what haggis like on the healthy scale lol?

Also as you can clearly see sleep is something I don't do much :sly:. So thats causing me to be meak and powerless then... :ill:
 
Protein: 1/2 Chicken. The meat only. Not the skin.
Carbons: 2 dl of whole wheat pasta (boiling time up towards 15 minutes).
Vitamins etc: Cucumber, Tomato, Walnuts
Fibres: Hard rye braed (nothing on it)

Fluid: Water

After your gym session, you can drink a protein shake. In most cases, I would've said to not drink the drinks that contains both carbons and protein, but in your case (high metabolism) it's perfectly fine.

And when it comes to gym in general, if you want to look good on the beatch, use weights.
If you truly want to be stronger, you need to do other types of exercizes than just weights.
Weights will in most standard exercizes only isolate one muscle group at a time.
So for you, I'd go with things like:
Chins
Burpies
Pushups
Squats
"The plank" be paralell to the ground with only your elbows and toes touching the ground.
When you can stand like that for 2 minutes, your core is solid.

Every move you do, and how strong you are doing it always come from the core muscles.
The core muscles are the deep lying abdominal muscles that surroubds you stomach and back.

Good luck! 👍


EDIT: I'm not an expert on haggis. But there's ofc reason why no one outside of Scotland eat sheep stomac.
Internals are in most cases (when put on the dining table) related to culture and history more than beeing a good and healthy source of protein.

Well, if you start working out properly, you'll per automatic be more tired, and more sleep would come as a result.
8 hours/day is optimal. But these days, no one have the time to sleep that much.. But 6-7 hours should do the job.
And again, it's all very depending on person. But the fundamental physics are identical to all of us. Some sleep less, some sleep more..

You've ever wondered why teenagers can't for their life wake up in time for school?
They grow a lot and need the rest in order to build up.. Simple. ;)
 
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I understood that for the most part just a few exercise names that have me confused lol. (Chins? = Sit ups? and Burpies? = No idea.)

I appreciate the advice though man I will deffo put this into practice as I really, really need the extra muscle ect :lol:.
 
Chins: A bar like 6 feet up.
Grab the bar with your knuckles pointing towards you.
Hang in the bar with straight arms. Pull yourself up until your chin reach above the bar, then go down again until your arms are fully stretched out and repeat.
Activates your entire back, core and arms among other muscles. 👍
Can you do 3 sets of 5 repeats?
That's a good start. 👍

Burpies:
From a standing position, you bend your knees, touch the ground with your hands and jump from there as high as possible. When landing, throw yourself forward in to an imidiate pushup position, do one pushup, up on your feet and jump as high as possible again.
Can you do 3 sets of 10 repetitions?
That's a good start. 👍
 
Ah ok, can do all bar the bar then as I don't have access to one unfortunatly but the rest i'll do, thanks :).
 
Anyone do testing for GP/F?


First few laps seeing 1:58's. Definetly a 1:57 in me. Maybe just maybe a 56 with the perfect lap and tune. Still got some tweaking to do.

From my pre-season testing all the cars run low to mid 1:57 in GTE.
 
@ Den : Very intresting what you write there, and oh so true. I have been eating chicken and veggy's all my life, hardly ever eat meat and never drink alcehol. I am 44 now, my weight is 64kg an i am 1m86cm long. My biggest sin in life is drinking Cola, every day about 1 liter...... But then again i am feeling in pretty good shape. I never go to the gym but I ride my bike and run several times a week.

Nice to see we have a 'swedisch cook' in the house, defenitly will try out your recipe ;)
 
@ Den : Very intresting what you write there, and oh so true. I have been eating chicken and veggy's all my life, hardly ever eat meat and never drink alcehol. I am 44 now, my weight is 64kg an i am 1m86cm long. My biggest sin in life is drinking Cola, every day about 1 liter...... But then again i am feeling in pretty good shape. I never go to the gym but I ride my bike and run several times a week.

Nice to see we have a 'swedisch cook' in the house, defenitly will try out your recipe ;)

Good to hear that!

You drinking so much coke is defenetly your "reward center" cravings that shows.

But since you do exercize, and also (most likely) have a relatively high metabolism, the "fast" carbons are used by your body as energy instantly.

"fast" carbons are negative because you add a lot of energy to your body in a short period of time.
The energy that you don't use will transform in to fat inside your body.
That's the bodys way to "keep" the energy.
Fat is energy.. So if you're really fat, you've bern eating much more energy than your bodys actual needs.
Coke is never good for your teaths though.

As an alternative to the sallad I mentioned, you can swap the chicken for tuna, or why not just add some beans.
Or boil 2 eggs and add to the sallad together with prawns. 👍

I'm at 189 cm and weigh in at 84 kg.
I might add that I don't follow these advices to the letter myself.
I drink quite a few beers from time to time, and also eat chips like once a week.
But what it all comes down to in the end is that just beeing aware of what you're eating, and what you should avoid helps out a ton.
But if we don't have a clue, we all end up eating read meat, skip the vegetables, drink coke, eating chips and candy, cause that's what our "reward center" are telling us -> That we need a lot of energy NOW!!
No, we don't.
100 years ago, we DID need to eat whatever we could get.
But there's no way our bodies had the time to adjust in only 2 generations.. The developnent over the last 100 years have simply gone too fast.
We're less active due to computers, robots, cars and internet etc, and eat more energy in general.. Leads to what is refered to as one of the modern worlds biggest health issues..

Just beeing aware helps a lot.
And by beeing aware, you can always alow yourself some sweets or a couple of beers once a week. No problem. 👍

Just make sure that your intake does'nt exceed what you're burning.

Get back to me on how you liked the sallad.
How much of each ingridience that you have in the sallad is up to personal preference. That's why I did'nt write exact amounts in the recepee.

Just be aware of the feta cheese, olives and bread crutons are there mostly for the flavour and concistens. Marked with (not too much). 👍
 
Yes, the 'ring's going to be excellent.

And as far as real life Le Mans goes, I'm really glad it's inspired more interest in some of you guys when before this series happened you might not have so it's great!

You should all definitely take the time to watch some of the race and catch the end this coming Sunday, it's just going to be epic!
 
Yes, the 'ring's going to be excellent.

And as far as real life Le Mans goes, I'm really glad it's inspired more interest in some of you guys when before this series happened you might not have so it's great!

You should all definitely take the time to watch some of the race and catch the end this coming Sunday, it's just going to be epic!

I'm watching the race most of this weekend before OK8 and MULE invade the WSC Le Mans 500k :lol: , its the only endurance race I watch for a looong time. I watched 14 hours last year live.
 
Yes, the 'ring's going to be excellent.

And as far as real life Le Mans goes, I'm really glad it's inspired more interest in some of you guys when before this series happened you might not have so it's great!

You should all definitely take the time to watch some of the race and catch the end this coming Sunday, it's just going to be epic!

but will it rain the entire time? ;)
 
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