* a race he's never even finished before. Let alone win. Then there's him taking control of an N-1 Starfighter never having been in anything like it before and successfully piloting it inside the control ship and blowing it up, something none of the veteran pilots could do.
I did and I think you're overstating it. And you're ignoring the precedent that force sensitives tend to pick up skills quickly and be very talented with things that require fast reflexes such as piloting. Luke was a fair pilot in A New Hope, but had absolutely zero experience in an X-wing, or in combat at all for that matter. He never got a crash course on how to operate an X-Wing nor any real instruction on proper procedures but he picked it up fairly well anyway. The special editions and DVD versions add in a deleted scene where another pilot is questioning his competency with an X-Wing and Biggs comes in to vouch for him.
After the battle almost all the experienced, veteran combat pilots were dead and he wasn't and he was very quickly promoted to commander and reformed the remnants of Red Squadron into Rogue Squadron, the fighter group he's seen commanding at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back. Then there's him using the force to grab his lightsaber, something he'd never been taught to do, something he didn't even know was possible, but he managed to do it because he was desperate. Desperation tends to help force sensitives tap into abilities through the help of the force. This is an established trait of the force that was not new to this film.
