[WRC] News & Rumours 2018

[denkimi]

I am just curious if anybody here has tested their own reactions as they have aged?
See, everybody talks about 'fast reactions' and how younger guys supposedly have "fast reactions"...
But nobody ever puts any numbers to it... ever...
And nobody puts a number to what "normal" reaction is, and how much "faster reaction" is "needed" compared to a base line of "normal" reactions..

And then there are those --like me---who believe --or rather know---that "fast" reactions are trained in.
And that the whole (amateur) discussion --which may be true to some (quantified) degree ignores totally the role of experience, and that you do need "super fast" reactions if you don't get yourself into situations where fast reactions are needed..Experience counts

But somehow I beat the mean reaction time of nerdy game players with an average age of 19.7 years...
I turned 65 last December...

Reaction times, like nearly everything else, is largely learned and then reinforced by practice. It is largely what the US Navy "Top Gun School" calls a "highly perishable skill"

All you guys here are fans in one degree or another. let's see what reaction times you have..Follow the link, take the test, post results.

i think you're not getting it.
yes, reactions can be trained. yes, a 65 year old can have faster reactions than the average 20 year old.

but, at age 65 you will never be able to train your reactions to be as fast as you would have been able at age 20.

what was the name of the 60 years old French gentleman driver with 307WRC that used to beat works Fords on some tarmac events (I think in Bulgaria)? that was about 10 years ago

Dany Snobeck

its either not snobeck, or Barreis's memory is wrong.

snobeck has in his 40 years career only 2 times competed outside france. only once in his 307, in spain 2009.