On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:47:07 +0100, "Mark Hewitt"
Only if you break it down to being "steering, braking and accelerating", in which case those skills are not learned on the motosport track, but when the driver learns to actually drive.
Let's pick one of the few situations that a public road driver and a race driver might have in common - where the driver in front brakes unexpectedly. The public road driver's expected response would be to brake also. On the racetrack, the reaction is to use it as an opportunity to overtake.
Well that's a lovely soundbite, but it does nothing to actually prove your point. I might as well have said "just because something looks the same to you, doesn't mean that they are not totally different"!
Have a think about how many different situations you or I could list that a driver on the public roads encounters every day that a racetrack driver would never encounter.
Then think about how many situations a racetrack driver would encounter during a race that a driver on the public road would never expect to encounter (I'd suggest that this is a far smaller set of events incidentally).
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