Were you sat in a box at 35-45 degC being subjected to vibration and high g loads? Were you sat behind a wall of spray so you couldn't see? Were you physically wheel to wheel with someone at 200mph? Did a mistake risk injury or worse? When you were playing your game and the computer suddenly decided to reboot did you just spill your soda in frustration or did you carry on at 180mph towards that tight right hander whilst simultaneously trying to brake, steer, defend/overtake, and sort the computer problem? Take Kimi's recent issue - he had to remember that the action required for that one issue was P4. P4 was 12 clicks on one button followed by 4 clicks on another button. So he'd have had know what the issue was, then what solutions might work, then remember a set of button pushes then carry them out, without losing count, all whilst driving a vibrating machine that will put him in the barriers if he takes his mind off it. Oh, and he has to race in close proximity with others at high speed at the same time.theblackangus wrote: I have played video games with more control's being used far more actively than an F1 car. Example ARMA III has literally a hundred + controls/options, and before that Tribes 1/2 I used around 136 keys/combinations with roughly 50-75 of those used multiple times per match.
It just doesn't seem like a top level driver should have a hard time with this at all.
Really, comparing video games to real situations is the sort of thing one expects from a ten year old.
