Curt, Larson is both a paved and unpaved racer.
He has a very broad cross section of racing he is good at.
If I look at the past, Sir Jackie Stewart was the first "Best Racing Driver" I can think of.
He has competition from Graham Hill, and I'm sure others had they lived.
I pick Sir Jackie for how he leveraged his racing into extensive relationships, wealth, family, trophies, a title, etc...
I'm gonna pull a quote from another thread here.
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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Racing, all sports, academics, piloting, etc.: You can improve average, make them excellent, but you can not teach gifted, you can only hone the gift, give perspective.
We all know it, most just do not want to admit it.
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If we take the honing example, a race driver is a blade.
There are many different blades and many different things to cut.
Is a Rapier better than a Dane Axe?
The answer to that depends on the use case.
Driver's are honed by teams, their knowledge base and communication methods developed for a joint endeavor.
Some drivers would not have achieved as much were it not for a co-driver that was good at sitting down with the engineers so that both drivers would have a better car.
It's an aspect that without direct contact and knowing the workings of the teams and drivers can be difficult to know.