Pay enough attention to racing, and it won't take you long at all to discover that racers are usually cut from a different cloth than most people. Never mind any discussion of talent; the sheer amount of discipline it takes to get to the highest levels of a given motorsport is simply on another level.
So it's one thing to be able to say you're a former MotoGP racer, and it's completely another to also be able to say that you successfully went on to run in the Dakar Rally and even manage to win a stage on your first event.
