Quote Originally Posted by Martin Brice View Post
I've entered the HPM four times - each time I drove the five hours up on the Friday morning and dozed during the day, and stayed on the saturday night and drove home on the sunday. Once I did it with two blokes who finished and stepped straight into the car and drove home to the south-east, taking it in turns to doze in the car. But the equation is different for everyone - maybe SRF had to catch a particular flight after the event and planned to sleep on the flight? Perhaps a short drive to the airport would have been OK. On this occasion, it seemed not to have been.
I think you are right, the equation is different for everyone. I suspect age plays a big part. I did the HPM in 1981 and drove alone to Leeds afterwards without feeling at all sleepy, indeed I suspect I was as high as a kite (on euphoria, not drugs, except maybe too much chocolate!) I even stopped off to visit friends on the way home, to boast about it all. It would be very different now.