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so we try not to use sleep aids sleeping medications too much but there is probably a case where athletes and others around them need to perform for just having that one night reset with a sleeping pill on arrival in the new location as much as that's kind of the lesser of two evils it can improve somebody's outlook and mindset for the rest of the weekend to come
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and again most personnel will go back to Europe in between each of those races so most people have done a dozen long-haul into continental sectors over the last month or so
and there's an ideal to sleep management which we really try to adhere to as much as possible but there's a really pragmatic element to that as well and particularly around the psychology of arriving at an event
we do quite detailed sleep and jetlag planning for the drivers and on occasion for the teams as well but the reality of the schedule the weekend schedule the flights that can be chosen there's a limited number of flights to take a thousand people into each destination with limited flexibility so it's a case of being very pragmatic not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good
and this is not as much the drivers but the crews the mechanics and the engineers people who probably have a very narrow window to either get on to the new time zone or not and if they get to a point where there's been two or three nights of disrupted sleep getting into the phase of the week where the cars are on track it can be actually a quite a disturbing thing
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