yes. his dad owned those teams too but yes. there's absolutely no way you can get anywhere near an F1 car without decades of training. Lance is one of the best drivers in the world. Let's make up numbers - top 1000 in the world? top 500 maybe?
your richard hammond anaology doesn't really work. he hasn't been constantly instructed by the best people in the industry that money can buy since he was 10 years old.
my point is - Lance has not shown that he has the innate instinctive talent to be the best driver in the world.