Reality versus Virtuality

The gaming world is huge business and development is constant. I have often wondered how the really good gamers would stack up in the real world. In the virtual world, they learn the moves, the strategies etc but could this learn't behavior actually transfer into the pressured role of the real world? Flying games and pilots, shooting games and the armed forces and driving games and racing. A story has just come out about the abilities of the racing car gamers, where they were entered into races as an experiment but were deemed too good to race at anything less than pro racing level. Could this be the start of opening up the expensive sport of racing to the masses? Could the next Nascar or Formula 1 driver be an ex gamer who started on an Xbox or PlayStation as opposed top grassroots karting?What do you think?