(disclaimer: I barely watch F1 race)
I’m always puzzled when I hear people refer to a racer as very skilled or very talented, what skills could they possibly need? Isn’t the aim of the race to reach the finish line first? Shouldn’t you just get a really fast car and let it do most of the work, while you try not to crash?
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“While you try not to crash” you make it sound like an easy thing to whip a 90 degree corner going 160+mph. Try to swing the wheel that hard, now do it 20 times over. Once you start to drive you’ll learn how physically demanding it is. It’s also a skill to react that quickly and properly, imagine you come across a turn and there is debris on the road, you have to both react in time and make the correct decision to avoid a catastrophe.
Throttle control is, in essence, a skill. Maintaining the highest possible speed for a stretch of road is also a skill.
Any sport can be reduced the way you did. “What skills could a footballer possibly need? Isn’t the whole point just to kick a little ball into a huge net past 1 person someone? That can’t be that hard…”
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