Insight vs Instinct

I have been searching high and low on the Internet and there is no where that I can find that actually describes what it is like to be a Formula One driver.  You can read anywhere what it takes but there is nothing about being a Formula One driver. About the raw emotions and reflexes that they have.

What does it feel like sitting at the start of a race, waiting for the light to go green?  How much control does it take to fight every single muscle in your body that you have trained all of you life to respond without thinking?  I know with competitive swim meets, crouched on the spring board, it takes every ounce in my body to fight the urge to dive and start to race.  Half of the time, I am tired before I even hit the water. 

It is true?  Does time and space slow to Matrix like speeds as you drive?  It must in order to see the pit boards as you fly by at over 180 miles an hour.  In the glimpse of an eye, there is so much information that is taken in.  I know that looking out the window from the back seat of a regular car on a highway, it is hard enough to read the passing signs.

How hard is it to fight the urge to stop, instead to continue to put your foot down going into a curve at 190 miles an hour just to over-take another car. A car that you have no idea where it is going or how fast it is going?  Does the Human Instinct not kick in?  Is human nature or instinctive reflexes not the hardest force to fight?  The hardest thing to train against?

When you come into the box, do you unintentionally hold your breath?  Everything could be set on the perfect pit. You obviously know that but is there ever a time that your body reacts to the lollipop before your mind does? 

Forget about the politics.  Forget about the team. What I would like to know, what I would love to have the opportunity to do is to ask these questions to a Formula One driver.  I would love to sit down and ask, in no particular order, a tenured drive such as Jarno Trulli, Mark Webber or Rubens Barrichello,  how is the race now different from your rookie year?  Have you reflexes and emotions changed since then?  What can an 'average' person compare what you do to?

As a 'average' person myself, until I get the chance to ask I would not have the faintest idea what is happening out on track. And until I do, I will not make any more assumptions on what I feel a driver may have done wrong or could have done different.  I know personally, I would find it extremely difficult if not impossible to fight my natural instinct in the situations that  you find yourself in every fortnight.

If anyone knows the answers or knows where I can find them email me! Please!