168: Is What NASCAR Teams Breathe Affecting Performance?

About this episode

This episode explores the impact of what NASCAR teams breathe on their performance during races.

Click to Send us a text! The track has a smell that every NASCAR fan knows by heart: hot rubber, race fuel, and heat-soaked asphalt. We love it, we chase it, and we rarely ask the uncomfortable follow-up question: what are we actually breathing in while it’s happening? If you can smell it, you’re not just noticing it. You’re absorbing it, and repeated exposure can become a real performance variable for drivers and crews. We dig into why this matters by comparing race weekends to manufacturin...

People in this episode

Host: Jeffrey Mort

Topics covered

• NASCAR
• performance
• air quality
• health effects
• driver safety

Keywords

• NASCAR
• performance
• air quality
• health
• drivers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NASCAR

Places: the track

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