once you start racing a clock, you start taking your driving personally, when you do that, that can start to actually feel the car and what its doing. You can start feeling when the car is struggling and when its happy. The car fully becomes an extension of the driver and you start treating the car like another person. once you get comfortable with your car being an extension of yourself you can then push each others boundaries farther out until you hit a euphoric limit, which you will then look back at the past and look at the present and come to reality..