Perhaps instead of who someone is but who they can fake.
To another extend, "good looking" and fit for a male usually go together.
And F1 is a physically demanding sport.
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Originally Posted by 911 Rod
Car racing, golf, tennis and other sports are about who you are as you are growing up.
There is a reason all the F1 drivers are good looking.
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I've dropped off the racing world.
But off track talent is not to be ignored.
Testing has limits and bans.
Important to being the best race driver today is to also be a good test driver.
The feedback loops between engineers and driver to wring ever better importance can drag a team up or down the grid.
There are driver's that have moved to lapped traffic teams, and by the end of their first season are scoring podiums.
Those guys have a special something as a race driver that can go beyond the limits of their on track driving.
When I look at Alonso's move to Ferrari, the car's went down the grid, not up.
Was it him? I don't know.
It got better when Kimi returned.
And Kimi at Lotus, wowza!
Kimi drives by the front of the vehicle, and that can make crossing over into some forms of motorsport a bit difficult.
Larson might get surprised in kart racing at how good Verstappen would be.
I'm no longer out at the kart track like I used to be, but Larson still had room to improve years back.
His short track racing before NASCAR, he was very very good.
To some extent the many forms of racing are like the many forms of "sports ball".
Trying to decide who is the greater sports ball player between players that do not play in eachother's specific sports is likely to be a unresolved attempt.