I believe it goes deeper than memory recall. A lifetime ago when I was in college I used to read a newspaper called Autoweek (before it turned into a rag) that had a regular column written by an up and coming Formula Atlantic driver named Bobby Rahal. He told of a rare phenomenon (I don’t think it had a name back then) that only happens when the driver is in second place or farther back. He slips into a sort of trance like state where his only focus is the car in front. Loss of peripheral vision, most sound perception, feeling in arms and legs, no sensation of pain or discomfort. The driver would sort of “join’ with and become part of the machine and time would seem to slow down. As “part” of the machine he would become almost “superhuman” and the car would suddenly start turning faster laps with incredible precision (because everything else had “slowed” down). The key thing here is that the driver would never be aware of it when it was happening, only some time afterward and the “trance” would only be broken by something like the checker flag drop. This supports the ‘reformed memory’ theory except for one thing. Referring to the recorded lap times they actually got faster and more consistent during the time this sort of “trance” took place. This happened to me once (outside of an accident) in 10 years of racing and all of the above happened and I never remembered the newspaper article until even years later. I’m just wondering if some people could be subject to a more “drastic” form of memory “reform”.
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