A white-walled, cupboard-sized room at Silverstone may not be the most obvious place to experience the potentially stifling conditions players will face in Qatar.
But a sky-high heart rate and a stream of sweat that drips onto a treadmill at Porsche’s Human Performance Lab after 45 minutes of work suggests otherwise.
Mirror Football has been invited to the racetrack to get a sense of just how taxing the climate could be in the Gulf state – despite promises of a new air conditioning system at all eight stadiums.
