I finally got around to watching Ford vs. Ferrari, which prompted this post, but I have thought about this for awhile.
Besides having courage, because it’s dangerous, and a rich sponsor for a car, what exactly is stopping a normal person from learning to drive a stick well and being able to do this?
Thanks in advance.
In: Engineering
Race car driving requires making moves before the need becomes apparent. For instance, you may need to slow by half on a turn that in itself you could take faster, but you already need to be decelerated for another turn right afterwards.
On a closed track with enough practice, a normal person could get pretty good at this. However, when you factor in that there will be other drivers that you need to avoid crashing into and compete for position against, you now need to make adjustments to all those timings very instinctively.
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