[Sam_Mills]

When I drove we treated it as any other sport. We went to bed around 9-11 every night, ate clean, and drank lots of water. None of the "Pizza and Red Bull" diet you will often hear people brag about. We also split up the team so that we didn't have all 4 of our most competent students on the drive team. We had one drive team member who could program, but our other best programmer was in the pit, so that the drive team could recoup between matches.

If you have a mentor coach, this can be easy to enforce, but even with an all student drive team, mature driver quality students should be more than willing to take care of themselves to be at peak performance.