Quote Originally Posted by janvanvurpa View Post
It was news to me that guys who sit in cars with power steering and paddle shift--some say they have AC --are athletes..Sportsman yes, drivers and co-divers yes..But athletes???

It was news to me, everybody agrees they are SUPERB athletes...
That's a gross oversimplification of what forces and stresses a competitive WRC crew deal with over the course of a rally.
Just because you don't understand it and have never experienced going that quickly in a car, doesn't mean others aren't experiencing stress and forces that require them to train and be conditioned in the same way any other top-level athlete would.