how to drink water in the car (Page 1 of 2)

We put in a cup holder to fit qt gadorade, a hole is drilled in the top where a piece of vinyl tube sticks out long enough to get under the helmet.

We use a 2-quart drink cooler (each driver has his own) that sits in a holder behind the seat, and uses a camelbak hose with bite valve.  We switch it out for each driver on our pit stop.

With 2-hour stints, heat and humidity in the south, it's a must for us.

We have a full drink system. A cooler is mounted in the car with 2x1 gallon jugs of water in them. A small 12v pump activated by a button accessible to the driver. A bite valve on a clear plastic tube runs to the driver who can drink when needed. Swap out the jugs between races and pump an iodine solution through the hoses to sterilize it before it each race.

Sippy Cup that sits in a bicycle-style holder mounted to the trans tunnel.

We chew gum.  Not just any gum, but caffeinated gum: https://www.amazon.com/Jolt-Energy-Gum- … _sxwds-bia

We use the Longacre system too, but we switched out the bite valve for the nice 90 degree Camelback. Works great and At least for ME I drain it every stint.

I have to moma hen all my other drivers who come in half dehydrated with a mostly full drink bottle.

Just bleed the air from the bag, bite and suck on the bite valve.
The bite valve keeps the liquid from draining back to the bag when you stop biting it.

I can never find the damn hose.....I will velcro it to my wrist next season

I just have the camelback hanging off the back of the seat with the arm straps looped around the seat wings.  Presuming my pink lil bod stays strapped in the seat, it shouldn't go far even in a flip.

Wow, all we do is stuff a bottle of water next to us into the seat.  During yellow flag, stuff the bottle under the helmet, extend lips over the opening and squeeze.

Technically, that's against the rules (3.F.8).  You're not supposed to have any loose items in the cockpit.

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Well... yes. Deuterium-depleted water is a by-product of the extraction of heavy water. There's at least one outfit that sells the stuff for its strongly-implied-but-not-actually-stated-so-don't-sue-them "health" benefits, with eight liters of water at 10 ppm deuterium going for $240 or six liters of the even lighter 5 ppm deuterium going for the same $240. A bit pricey, but just think of the weight savings over ordinary water at around 150 ppm deuterium!

Of course even greater savings (of weight, anyway) are available by also running this in the radiator and cool suit.