"Starting as young children" is typical for professional racers.

In that regard, she is not advantaged (compared to her professional peers).

-scheherazade

The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a large fortune.

Given all of her advantages, I wonder how many other child racers would do as well. It's hard for me to call her a prodigy when her skill may be average for someone who's been racing for 8 years with top notch equipment and tutelage. She certainly has some advantages most people don't.

i wonder where those lead 4 racers placed?

To everyone who thinks they'd do better, saying "oh i'd just turn this way here, then back here, don't oversteer, dip the clutch, you'll be fine, dangerous over reaction." You should know that you don't get to plan it out like that from the relaxing comfort of a computer chair.

Put yourself in her position:
- did she sleep last night or did the kid keep her up?
- perhaps just off a long work shift?
- thinking about 10 other things
- maybe a drive she does every day i.e. boring, not something to hold your interest
- condition and grip of road surface
- and so on.........

It happens when you least expect it (you *always* least expect your car to slide) and unless you're a regular drift racer you don't instantly identify the sensation as skidding.

Source: rolled a car after skidding on an oil spill

The route planners should be bared for life from planning race routes.
Epic fail...and what gives with not giving the lead group a lead? Even if t h e organizers can't get their shit together, the racers should have just waited...what if they had been that far ahead....and now there's precedent to just say "screw it, it's now a 5k race....go!"
I would be ever so pissed.

of you or the racer?

I have raced this track a ton in Forza, but never as clean as this. Maybe I should trade in my modern supercar for some old school open wheel racer.

God forbid they ever put a prop on upside down.
You racers know what I mean...

I always think those drivers must be master multitaskers to be able to listen, translate, anticipate, and drive balls out all at once. They're rivaled only by jet sprint boat racers, who take all the directional information, speed it up by 3, and make it 100% hand signals....all on water at fighter plane g forces.

I do better driving blind over listening to fast pace notes....I just can't do both at once very well.

People are paying them to develop the game. As far as i know, very very people have spent up to 100K.

Even if someone has the best stuff. If they're terrible pilots, a good pilot with a cheap ship can easily beat someone in a expensive ship.

Yes people are pumping money into it, development is taking time, but the game is huge and a lot ifs being developed as far as ultra HD graphics, going from huge area flight and ground based combat.

"Oh but battlefield has flight and ground based combat!" yes all within a confines of a couple 10 KM. The bengal carrier is supposed to be in complexity of a couple BF maps crammed into one area.

But going back, once the game goes live fully, no one will have the ability to purchase in game ships with real money, though who knows, that might change.

But going back to "pwning newsbs" any one with a decent ship with excellent piloting skills can pwn someone with ha ultra expensive ship. This certainly isn't a , paying top dollar and being on top. If you're gonna pay top dollar, you're gonna be in the arena commanders playing vs bots and now vs other players in dog fight melees. Those people are going to be good because they're gonna be excellent pilots.

But, the game isn't all about dog fighting. You can be a miner, a merchant, a racer, an explorer, heck farming is going to be implemented as well.

But I mostly have a sense you don't actually understand the game in general. The game is leagues ahead of no mans sky just for the fact it'll be a persistent universe with players all over the place that you can interact with.

Totally agree with power ups. It should be doable with augmented reality in a way that's not possible with other sports.

Maybe fly at 75% power unless you hit a boost. Pick up offensive power ups you can target at other racers to reduce their power momentarily or send them into a 3 second hover mode.

*length=4:27 Drift on speed racer!

I'd assume anyone who's followed car racing at all would know it, but I was talking about the vast majority of people who knew Paul Newman only for his films, salad dressing, and Keurig K-cups.

I've never known anyone who had any idea he was a professional racer... but then of all the comment threads on all the video aggregators on all the Internet, you walked into this one and changed all that.