Not a super-driver but Enzo Ferrari used to daily drive a Fiat 128 [1] . Nowadays the former chairman of the VW Group and a member of the family that controls Porsche has just paid $18 million for a custom-made Bugatti.
Right. It's not what all the best and brightest are doing. It's what people like to read about, and what we want to be doing, even if most of what we do isn't that.
[1] https://youtu.be/lQSac0Jpz0Y