Preparing for an SCCA event is about more than getting your car ready. From driving to keeping the car ready for the next session or heat, there are a lot of things throughout the event keeping you from taking care of yourself. The most important of your needs are nutrition and hydration. A lack of either takes away your edge and may keep you from achieving your goals.

Kenton Koch runs through his 10 tips for preparing yourself for the weekend ahead in a recent Mazda Motorsports feature. Click here to read Kenton’s list.

Kenton Koch is a Mazda Scholarship Driver currently competing in the Cooper Tires Prototype Lites Powered by Mazda Series. He claimed to the Championship in that series following up his Championship in the SCCA Pro Racing Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup in 2014.

Photo credit: Steve Bernstien