As part of its commitment to creating the leading circuit and kart driver training centre in Europe, iZone has opened a gym at its Silverstone base and joined forces with leading motorsport fitness company VOTwo. The aim is to bring the three core skills of driving technique, mind management and fitness together under one roof, working to one philosophy. This will enable drivers to more easily find and understand their Peak Performance State in all these three critical areas and to unlock their hidden speed.
Currently drivers use separate driver, mental and physical coaches with potentially different and conflicting philosophies; iZone can now bring these three areas together under one ethos so that skills development can be better structured and co-ordinated and therefore far more effective and rapid.
The new training environment not only includes much of the functional training equipment that is found in conventional gyms but is also tailored to meeting the specific physical requirements for motor racing. There are also specially designed pieces of equipment for neck and reaction training.
iZone is the first facility to offer combined simulator and physical training to better equip drivers for their role on track. The gym is available for iZone customers and sessions are conducted with a VOTwo instructor. Drivers can opt for full physical assessments in addition to training sessions. VOTwo can also provide motorsport specific physical testing, training, heat acclimation, MSA medicals and nutritional support.
John Pratt, iZone's Performance Director "iZone is all about driver's finding their peak performance state. There is no question that fitness affects lap-times and we know that peak performance can't happen without peak physical fitness. VOTwo has been involved in driver training from the late 90s with Benetton Formula One to the present day with clients such as the MSA, BRDC Rising Stars and many independent drivers, so they were a natural choice to work with iZone to create the high level of performance that we are looking to give to our drivers. VOTwo coaches have a rare combination of academic qualifications in physical science, coaching and medicine, experience working at the highest level in motorsport which complements iZone perfectly. iZone is all about unlocking the hidden speed in a driver, and a fit body and mind are a vital starting point in finding those vital extra tenths of a second per lap."
