Well, talent is based purely on natural ability (or as some like to call it "God-given gift"). Whether its how someone thinks, how someone reacts, it can a number of different talents. Personally, I feel that perhaps the difference or thing that I consider extremely important when it comes to driving a car fast, any car at that is knowing how to maximise it and before you can do that, paying soo much detail to how the car responds to your inputs (example: applying throttle in the XRT so that when you hit the throttle when you're around 35%-40% round the corner, upon completing the corner, you get max turbo boost and causing a bit of throttle steer or sometimes, very small skid to get the car to turn in just a bit more). I'm not saying thats anything special, I'm just saying thats how hard I think and try to understand the car by maximising the amount of power I can get out of it in a corner.
Thankfully, yes, I
may have some talent but I also remember as well that back in the very early days of LFS, I wasn't very quick. I was generally struggling to get within 2 seconds of a WR on a combo which I would've driven almost 50 laps while now, I can get within 1-1.5 seconds of a WR in a matter of just 5-8 laps so I believe that my experience is what lead me to this level. Perhaps as well its because of my understanding of how to maximise the various different cars but I believe that people like Bawbag in their first LFS days were no different to how I was, perhaps better, same or worse, I couldn't tell because Bawbag was involved in LFS well before I was but my point is that he wouldn't have been anything special in those days. Unless someone can drive for only, say, 10k kms (including offline
) and then goes off to set numerous WRs, then I will realise that there are some who have an unexplainable ability to drive a car really fast in a very short amount of time. Even if you can tell me that there is infact a driver who is like that, you or I cannot judge how many kms they've driven as there is no offline mileage counter to account for. Bawbag is skilled, hannu is skilled, biggi is skilled <- No doubt about that!
but something we, ourselves, unless we run some sort of lab rat testing
, we can never know how many kms in total a driver has driven, I mean, even I don't know how many I've driven in total either!
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At the end of the day, I drive and try to improve to be the best, I'm not the best now and I may not be later either but I keep on driving anyway for the possibility that I can be (by the way, all this is largely if not completely to do with real life reference, while LFS has somewhat significance, I'm nowhere near as serious about sim racing as I would be about the real thing).
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be watching a fantastic show called "Trap Door"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=q9H ... amp;mode=user&search=