It started as ambiguity: How the cooling shirt ended Nascar?
Some drivers did not know. Others assumed it should be hendrick motorsPorts – or more specifically, Jimmy JohnsonWhat it always seemed to be at the forefront of fitness and nutrition.
Johnson said: “I was the first driver to wear one, but the man who started the matter was Chad Kanus,” Johnson said.
According to Johnson, the head of his crew has always been watching new technology as well as a comprehensive performance approach, which included Johnson. The seven times champion champion also dealt with cramping and was vulnerable to heat issues, so he put his hands on a cooling shirt and decided to test his effectiveness.
Johnson said: “When we used to draw cars, one of the bays is the roll of the car and will make it 100 degrees to accelerate the paint,” Johnson said. “[Knaus] Literally, one of our comrades went there with this dreaded shirt, connect it to the wall and sit there and test it by pretending to be in a race car. I will never forget to invite me, you will not believe that, this wonderful shirt works! I got this in the spray bread, and I cook it there, and it got the shirt, which is great! “
Johnson began to wear the shirt around 2018 or 2019. Initially, his colleagues only knew. His competitors did not want to know because it was a feature behind the wheel. Over time, it became general knowledge and a monkey from drivers drivers in the wake of Johnson’s progress.
Joy Logano He storms his distinctive smile and the big laugh.
“It is similar to jumping in a swimming pool on a hot summer day,” said the NASCAR Cup champion. “It’s a great feeling. It’s great.”
The simplest way to describe is a shirt with cooling technique. The shirt includes tubes through which cold fluid works. It has caused the driver’s comfort.
“I think years ago when we did snow packages in our suits and threw them between stops,” Eric Jones He said. “The endurance side, on a hot day, it is just a changing games. There were days when you got out of these hot races and have been accomplished and wiped, even as much as you trained or did not train. So, he changed it to the place where it was 90 degrees, I don’t think anyone worried about the heat in the car anymore.”
The driver’s comfort has evolved over the years. Snow, fans, and helmet hose, which are still used to detonate cold air at the head of the driver, were some of the roads that drivers tried to keep their temperatures. The helmet hose does not have the same effect as the cooling shirt that studies the surface of the latter. Today, it is difficult to find a driver in the field not wearing one.
Jones was not alone using “changing the game” when talking about the cooling shirt. Michael McDawellOne of these drivers tied the height in drivers using shirts to enter the following Gen Car in 2022.
“[The shirts] “You were concerned about running them because you didn’t know if this was a good or bad thing, but now, I know that there are still some problems from time to time,” McDowell said.
Shin van Jesbrgen Until his shirt is pre -made to make it cooler. It is important for the public relations representative to have a permanent reminder of “placing a wonderful shirt in the freezer for an hour and a half before the drivers meet” in their personal calendar.
Some drivers do not wear the shirt at the end of each week, and they make the decision based on the weather. Ross Shasin He is one, saying that there are times when he wants sweat.
“Martinsville had to use the bathroom because I was not sweating enough,” said Martinsville, had to use the bathroom because I was not sweating enough, “
When you are in the car, the shirt (or jacket, depending on the choice) connects under the absolute lawsuit with a pump. The pump can be installed anywhere, such as Cesar Villanueva, the inner specialist Kyle Larson In Hendrick Motorssps, clearer.
Pump cycles through water and a mixture of antibacterial and anti -fungal fluid. It helps in keeping the system clean, and if the liquid is not rotated, it can block. Of course, if it clogs, the pump will not work. However, there is more than one reason because the system may fail a driver during the race.
“You are just besieged in a bad situation,” Austin Delon He said about the failure of the regime. “There is nothing you can do about it, but it closes it, and you can empty water if you have to do so, but it is somewhat similar to the life line. It is very important to be the case.”
Failure means that the driver begins to boil. Liquids become hot, and there is no escape if the water cannot be thrown.
“It is great so that it is not so,” Logano said. “But more than once, it’s a great thing. Frankly, they have done a good job in developing this entire system. He used to be really heavy, and for this reason no one used it, and now you have a process in which you are very effective, and if it can help you mentally at the end of the race because you are physically, you are doing it.
“I don’t care how much the shape you are in, you will get tired after 400 or 500 miles. If you can keep yourself a little, you may be worth it.”
Of course, weight is a big deal. The driver’s comfort is definitely important, but the performance of the car, and precious weight costs at the time of the lap. Because of its effect, it was necessary to accept the use of the unit, which Villanueva said it might range from 6 to 7 pounds.
“I think we accepted some weight penalty in wearing it,” Chris Bosher He said: “Because you must make sure that you are as new as possible to fight at the end of these races.”
Tyler Reddik One was used in 2021 after losing weight. He noticed that he suddenly needed something to keep its basic temperature better because it was very hot very quickly, without, he says, isolation.
Reddick’s praise, though, is the ideal way to summarize the NASCAR cooling shirt.
“Many drivers use it,” he said. “I think what it does to cool the body may be the most effective thing we have.”
