#651 - Le Mans 24 Diet & Training with Phil Hanson

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🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Want an insight into the diet and training of a Le Mans 24 race car winner? Well you're in for a treat as Phil Hanson from United Autosports who is the youngest driver to win the World Championship and to win the European Le Mans Series & 24 Hours of Le Mans race joins me to talk shop. We discuss his journey into the sport, his approach and mindset, his simple approach to nutrition, what data he values to fine tune his body, and how and when he trains.

A fascinating conversation with an elite racing car driver. Check him our on IG @philhansonracing

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Ben Kummer radio. I hope you're all having a awesome day and I'll tell you
0:06.4	what today we're going to get into a sport that I've never talked about on this show. I'm
0:12.2	very excited to talk about it because there's a racing car driver that lives inside me
0:18.5	and I've never talked about this online. I don't think it's relevant to my work but I am
0:23.5	really into cars. I had my first, we won't call it a sports car, but I had my first sports
0:29.2	car at 21. I then had a goal in my personal life connected with my business that I always
0:36.0	wanted to own an Audi TTS which I think is a beautiful car, I love it and then I had
0:41.0	a Lotus Elise Exige Cup R at one point in my life like I absolutely love speed, love
0:47.0	petrol and then to be able to have a conversation about that connected to health and fitness
0:52.4	and performance is going to be today's show. So I'm very excited to welcome a guest onto
0:58.9	the show that is a world endurance champion, the youngest driver to achieve this, won the European
1:07.0	Le Mans series and was the youngest everbrit to win the Fainte 24 hour Le Mans. Oush! And it's a
1:16.4	racing driver for United Auto Sports which is owned by McLaren F1 Boss Zack Brown. Phil Hanson,
1:25.9	welcome to the show. Thanks a lot, thanks for having me Ben. Oof! I look at your Instagram and I have
1:32.4	a little scroll and I'm like this dude's living the life, surely most sport, countries, good food,
1:39.4	you know, glitzy, like do you love it? Was it always like something you wanted to do?
1:46.3	Yeah, I mean it's something that I think a lot of us won't be able to do with our lives like
1:50.1	you said there's a small racing driver beside of all of us and although it's not as great as
1:56.9	always seems I'm going to try and make this amazing paradise that I live in seem a little bit more
2:01.8	realistic which is you know I've traveled to many cool places in my life for racing Japan, China,
2:08.9	Thailand, America, the States but quite often it's hotel racetrack hotel airport. I'm trying to
2:17.0	change that now I'm trying to make make a bit of a trip of places I want to visit more like I've
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