sometimes to be the best and the fastest you gotta use ridiculous settings / scenarios.
e.g. back in the golden LFS days a lot of top tier drifters used ~ 270 degrees of rotation to just make sure they can switch in tandems hella quick. It took some time to adjust but clearly it worked for them and for most their skills werent achievable.
Same goes for racing. It is definitely more fun and realistic to use certain settings, but hell sometimes if you wanna be quicker, lower degrees of rotation, smaller FOV etc, all those little things add up with time.