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Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

Senility wins over experience in the end

These kind of examples are fraught with huge variations. I bought a car from an 82 year old guy. He had been planning to build a Cobra as his next car His wife had been driving this one and talked me through it's handling, the way it coped with drift, standing water the lot. SHE clearly knew how to drive. NOT the same kind of octogenarian who uses their car to go to the bingo.

Stirling Moss can STILL push the cream of the up-coming teenagers to the back of the grid

Experience of the right things is what makes the difference.

You will always find anecdotes but in general terms older people (70+) are not up to the quick decision making and the general business of modern driving. One point on the TV show was made (I know one example) that when the instructor asked a question the old guy struggled doing two thing at once and was actually leaning toward the instructor and veering the car that way. Extrapolate this to having to do a u trun in front of impatient traffic or similar.
Stiling Moss indeed.