Physiological Responses During Racing Kart Driving

• YAMAKOSHI Takehiro

  Graduate School of Natural Science & Technology, Kanazawa University

• YAMAKOSHI Yasuhiro

  Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University

• MATSUMURA Kenta

  Department of Adult Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry

• HIROSE Hajime

  Department of Business Administration, Kinjo College

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• モータースポーツ時の生体情報反応—レーシングカート走行による基礎的検討—
• モータースポーツ時の生体情報反応--レーシングカート走行による基礎的検討
• モータースポーツジ ノ セイタイ ジョウホウ ハンノウ レーシングカート ソウコウ ニ ヨル キソテキ ケントウ

Abstract

Physiological monitoring was carried out during the motor sport of Racing Kart driving. In addition to highlighting the importance of physiological measurement during motor sports, this study may have social relevance through its potential to contribute to decreasing automobile accidents in overload situations by using appropriate biosignals. The measurement quantities collected in this study were instantaneous heart rate, HR, vector magnitude of acceleration, G, blood pressure, BP, and core body temperature, T_eardrum. After giving informed consent 11 healthy male subjects (34.4 ± 7.7 S.D. yrs) were tested in the racing circuit. We successfully monitored the physiological variables during karting, finding a statistically significant decrease in BP (p < 0.01) and a rise in T_eardrum (p < 0.01) immediately after the driving period. In addition, we have confirmed that HR was maintained at approximately 150bpm, which, by means of time-frequency analysis, could be explained by sympathetic acceleration. Furthermore, it is strongly suggested that the rise in HR could be closely related to the G forces to which the drivers were subjected. These results clearly disclose to us one aspect of the possible physiological responses and the importance of physiological monitoring during motor sports.

Journal

• Transactions of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering

  Transactions of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering 47 (2), 154-165, 2009

  Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering

Keywords

• blood pressure
• core body temperature
• heart rate
• motor sports
• racing kart

Details

• CRID: 1390282680242823296
• NII Article ID: 10025974165
• NII Book ID: AA11633569
• DOI: 10.11239/jsmbe.47.154
• ISSN: 18814379
• ISSN: 1347443X
• NDL BIB ID: 10377167
• Web Site: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/22583
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I10377167
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2009345496
• Text Lang: ja
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