Can confirm. I once, with perfect calm and focus, steered into a bad slide on long slightly-downhill curve covered in ice. I'd never, ever done that in real life before then, in 15+ years of driving. I didn't think about it, didn't even worry for a millisecond. I'd 100% for-sure have hit a parked car if not for all the semi-realistic-but-still-arcadey racing games I've played.