The good news is you obviously have some excess mental capacity while racing. Could make you an excellent development driver. I find almost all the time I have capacity to think about anything else, sometimes its handling, sometimes its the winners speech I’ll give lol.
But by far my best performance have been when I’ve got into the zone and I literally cannot remember anything about those races, i didn’t have capacity even to log what was going on.
Some drivers (likely without knowing it) do things that keep them in the zone, like ducking once a lap, doing a little jump in the seat, flexing their hands.
There’s some good other posts about “Getting into the Zone”
This book is good too:
https://www.amazon.com/Overdrive-Formula-Zone-Clyde-Brolin/dp/0956473806