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Granted, my youth and health are definitely an advantage.Yes, practice is key to most things. But..
As an example my wife has
rheumatoid arthritis and she can play Rayman for half an hour and that's it. So no way she can practice the amount needed for something like this. Could be the same for him. We just don't know.
Or like me, who has wife and lots of kids, a limited time on hand to play leads to a limited time for practice. It's certainly doable for me,but I often stop practice and start racing whit TCS so I can be competitive.
But considering I'm studying automotive engineering after not having done maths for close to a decade, time is not something I have a great deal of either.
I had very little practice for last night other than using the XJR-9 for daily mileage whenever I could squeak it in.
Plus I definitely failed my exam this morning so I probably shouldn't have raced to begin with
My main point, though, is that I think racing/GT is one of those things where you can't progress without pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. I started out AT, traction control on anything above group 3, and was ridiculously slow. Throwing the stabilisers away and learning to do it all with my fingers wasn't as much of a process as it initially seemed.
I'm far from the world's best player but I like to think I'm always improving by pushing my own limits, like by driving an incredibly unforgiving car for a 90 minute endurance race. I COULD have picked a car I feel ultra comfortable in, like the 4C gr. 3, but would I have learned anything about myself that I didn't know already?