There is a lot more to it than that. You don’t have control over it you do the manual/clutch. Bumper to bumper traffic is a good example. You just don’t see that in a race.
It’s just not the average joe’s automatic. The computer programs that run it is also a problem too. There are just too many different scenarios in regular traffic that never occur during a road race.
I defer to your knowledge. I don’t know that much about them.