Why It's Almost Impossible to Become an F1 Driver
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2024
- Ever wondered about the odds of becoming a Formula 1 driver? In this eye-opening video, I dive into the astonishingly tough journey of making it to the pinnacle of motorsport. Starting from the grassroots of karting, I explore every step and the immense challenges faced by aspiring drivers. I compare these slim chances to those of winning the lottery. Join me to discover why securing a spot in Formula 1 might be one of the hardest achievements in the sports world!
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Money would make your journey short
I don’t have that
You still need to have tremendous skill. Money alone won't get you a seat. Did you not watch the video lol
@@a1160757 no one said that??
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Plus the skill is just not to kill people
@@a1160757 Look at lance 💀
So youre telling me out of 8 billion people, 5 billion of them are interested in becoming a F1 driver? that's more than 1 in every 2 people on an average. I've never met anyone who was interested in F1. I'd even argue that 5 billion people never heard of F1
Stroll family: Financial backing is only what is needed.
Yeah, Stroll didn't get a super license or win anything at all before F1.
tell youre a DTS fan without telling me youre a DTS fan moment
@@mechanixs4435 I don't watch it
@@mechanixs4435never even watched drive to survive. Stroll still shouldn’t be in F1, and if his dad wants to win a constructor’s, he needs to fire him.
@@treytonlandplayz3151 his career was on a rise. he dominated F3 and F2, he is a "paid driver" because his father owns a team, if his father wouldnt own a team, im more than confident that stroll would get his place in F1 due to his F2 and F3 achievments, i admit he is shit in F1 however he gets way more hate than he deservers
There’s literally no other sport in the world that only has 20 participants per year.
Football
There is multiple divisions of Motorsport though.
@@AJ-dx6bn - football has hundreds of players in the NFL.
@@Mr_Dusty. - right I understand that. But I’m just strictly saying in F1 as reaching the pinnacle of Motorsports as a driver there’s only 20 seats available, and there’s about 8.5 billion people on this planet. Slim margins. But yes there are many seats available at the professional level in other categories.
Chess Candidates Tournament has 8 players every 2 years
This video is to a degree innacurate. there aren't 5 billion people actively wanting to get into f1. sure kids could dream but the actual percentage would be low but still a lot higher than the number you suggest. Have to take into account how many kids try to get into the FIA karting world championships and how many end up being able to participate and go from there in terms of how many people participate in each driving category.
Came here to say this. That’s not how you’d work out the chances. 99.99% of the population has exactly 0% chance.
Thank youuuu 🤦🏾♂️
Bruh it’s only 8 billion in the world and he is saying 5 billion want to be in F1. I never met anyone who ever wanted to be a F1 driver. I’m sure there isn’t even 200k active drivers in all F Divisions
@@saucegotti9416your right this video is lowkey in accurate
came here to say this
hundreds of hearts shattred after watcing this video
Shattered even.
Mine as a future father 😂
Lol with this math you mean 5 billion
i think the most tragis thing abaut this is not our misable unsolid dreams that never materialised, but the unknow amount of talented young boys and girls that were never able to surpass the nacional karting leagues. We know lewis hamilton did, but how many more stayed forgotten???
My local Karting track. The owner bought the track for his daughter back in the day. They used to race Lance Stroll in Karts. She’d beaten him multiple times. Unfortunately they just didn’t have the budget that the Strolls had to fund her racing career. There’s plenty of talent out there, like most we all lack the funding to go far.
Lando Norris won the F1 recently although his dad is a millionaire having played around with pension funds for a number of years. It probably helps having links to billions of dollars
Apply that logic to all sports. The best may not be the best, only the best we know of
Forget about going beyond national karting leagues; how many can't even make it to the grid because they are too poor to start racing, forcing them to abandon their dream and begrudgingly go to academics against their own will?
Please reread yourself before posting...
One sure way to not become an F1 driver is to not try at all. The 5 billion starting point is way too high. Who knows the true number? We can only count people who start a motorsport career with the serious intent that F1 is their goal, and that would be a lot less than 5 billion.
It starts with the one having the financials to even try, the of those only a small fraction will actually want to do it, so I doubt this will be more than a couple of millions to be honest. Not too many families can support a 10k per year hobby for their 8 year old lol and those that cant dont really have any chance, even if they wanted to.
I grew up stupid poor so no chance at getting into Karting as a kid. Now that I can afford karting, I'm too old.
No way man. How old are you? You’re only kidding yourself if you think you’re too old. I race and plenty of these guys are mid 50s. I started two years ago at 38. Gearing up for my first competitive season.
Your assignment is to get to a local track and check the scene. Do some rentals. Or you can just sit at home and think you’re too old. Whatever.
Honestly go check out your local track. Check out the equipment people are running. I run a Briggs and Stratton LO206 it’s the most basic entry level karting and everyone is on an equal playing field as the blocks are sealed and can’t be modified.
Do yourself a favour and go have some fun.
@@SimRacingVeteran what makes you think a professional race team in any race series will hire someone who can only afford to start karting at 40 years old and race cars 5 years later, all with his own money? I can't imagine a race team in F4, F3, F2, WEC, WTCR, Super Formula, Indycars, nor F1 hire a 50 year old as a debutante.
@@wanr5701tbf, some teams might. But they won’t be any in the FIA formulas. Rally driving and other lower motorsports you might have a shot.
I did karting for 5 years from 2012-15 and again in 2018 got only 1 win but just ran out of money and I wasn’t going to go anywhere with it.
this make me like 80 times more motivated
Yep they won't give you a 1 million pound car to spin about if you don't have some experience though. I would recommend getting some experience before trying to join the f1
Sarcasm?
@@g.w.7893 yes
@@g.w.7893 and no
Ihhh there are not 5 billion people interested in becoming an f4 driver 😂
He meant 5 million
Probably even less. Karting itself probably has less than a million people who actually had the finances.
@@lk5388 were talking 10s of thousands of kids. definitelly not even 100s of thousands, so these odds are quite useless.
@@laius6047 ye probably like 100k ish maybe even less. Im coming from one of the richest countries in the world and I know of exactly one person that wanted to do this throughout my entire life, so the odds for those that have the financials and also want to do it are probably not great but way way way higher than what he made it out to be. Maybe even 100k is too much, it may be closer to 10k or something.
I'm from Finland and I'm so damn proud about what this small country has achieved in this sport from 90s to current day. Mika Häkkinen, Mika Salo, Kimi Räikkönen, Heikki Kovalainen and Valtteri Bottas were all people who were able to hit the jackpot! These guys definitely didn't have rich parents to pay their career, no. It was all about being good at something, trusting in yourself and just working your butt off to get yourself there. Of course being in right place at the right time with right people, so it's also luck but still..
You kind of have to be rich to get your kids into karting in the first place.
Leo Kinnunen and later success Keke Rosberg winning champion opened that door for finns to f1, its snowball effect that still goes. Without Keke there wouldnt been Mika either.
Gotta also mention recent driver Oscar Piastri as well. The lad won everything before F1 basically. Spent one year in Alpine as reserve driver and its now at Mclaren.
Kimi: "Bwoah, I was just racing for fun, but then Peter (Sauber) called me up for some reason."
* he only raced Formula Ford and Formula Renault UK after kartinf before F1
We missing Kimi don't we?
@@basukisugito3275 yes we do.
For anyone saying that compareable skill to people on the grid is a prerequisite above money. Let me remind you all that *Nikita Mazepin* was once a F1 driver...
And that lance stroll is still a driver to this day
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Don't worry people, even if f1 is too much for most of us, remember that it's not the only form of motorsports on the planet. You have touring cars, endurance racing, which is very demanding and with a bit of skill and determination and maybe just a little money you can get a gt class seat.
I love GT racing
yes but F1 is F1 nothing even comes close it's like the highest quality 10 out of 10 hottest chick in the world and you want to substitute that chick with some easy sluttttt down the local bar that give it way in the back WC for a drink or two
Ye but you pay more than you win in these races
@@harirami4024 well yes that's true but at least you go racing. What i noticed in most forms of motorsport is that you don't actually get paid for it, you just do it cuz you like it. People are more passionate about it as well.
I think it'd be awesome if they had global karting championships, it'd be much more accessible.
Yeah I agree this is one of the least accessible for most average people but I disagree with how you did your odds.. it’s really actually if you have the money and a family willing to fork up the cash.. your odds are considering population as a whole, and not every single one of us wants to race cars lol..you just have to be part of the small few that want to drive firstly and then secondly have the cash to do it.. sure your odds are still astronomically small but much better odds than your 1/300 million chance.
something has died in me today
Don't kid yourself bro. Your profile pic should've told you that your waaaaaaay past the age to start. I wanted to be an f1 driver too. Now I just stream full length f1 races ..not even competitively 😂
A lot of people dont think about the price that this takes
I'm not surprised at all. I never wanted to be an F1 driver, I wanted to race with carts and entry level cars like gt86 or mx5 in regional race compilation s but sadly for me my country Bangladesh has the 3rd lowest car ownership because of not having an automobile industry, hight population density and crazy high tax rates. Only 0.4% people have cars. 😢
We cannot afford car culture, honestly. Less area, lesser road networks. Even if we had an automobile industry, it still won't allow motorsports like F1 to thrive. Owning a piece of machinery is very lucrative.
Formula E, otherwise, seems like more open minded to car culture and it's fans. Not saying it's cheap, but more interactive than F1.
This video is literally the best advert for buying lottery tickets
Getting to F1 is 95% money and 5% skill. You could be the best there ever was, but if youre broke, tough luck.
That is true for some and is a bullshit comment for others (Hamilton and Schumacher, they both were not wealthy).
nah, I'd win
All hope is not lost esports are growing every year and a good racing setup might only cost you a couple grand if you want to get serious. Might not get you millions like f1 drivers but the pros are definitely getting a pretty penny back from there investment
You’d be better off building a business and buying all the cars you want than being an F1 driver. If the odds are that low for a comparatively small payout - it definitely isnt worth.
You will never chamge my mind that F1is just rich people go karts
How it’s always been.
Like it's ever pretended to be something else. Any other race series is more impressive but F1 is the most fun.
I was 13 in 2012 when i had the dream of becoming an F1 driver. That dream died many years ago because it is simply impossible to reach it that far. You really need 3 major things: Money,network and talent. Max is doing great because he had a huge talent and his father was a former F1 driver, that opens doors. But playing in the Champions League final is more feasible than becoming an F1 driver, so i’m happy that my sadness for not becoming an F1 is forever gone..
And this is why we sim race haha
People need to stop thinking you can use statistics whenever you want.
You absolutely cannot compare being hit by lightning versus trying to get into F1.
One is an act of nature and one is something you actively train for and participate in and apply for. They are entirely different.
2:10 Ayoo that was my mechanic in Parolin 😂😂
It would be more relevant if you calculated the odds of becoming an F1 driver among those who tried carting instead of the majority of world population. There is a pretty big difference between having some sort of interest in motorsport and actually try to pursue a racing career.
Great Video like always mate!
Thanks for the support mate ❤️
You need to mention age restrictions… because of Max V., we have another barrier to entry. 13 new drivers in 10 years, young drivers will be old and rusty before starting.
Bad math, I’d start with the amount of people who are in f4 after karting, because not everyone in karting wants to become an f1 driver (a lot of hobbyist) let alone 5 billion people 😂
Yes it might be hard to get into F1 as a driver, but it's even harder to get into F1 as a photographer. They simply don't let some aspiring amateur photographer with their point and shoot camera alongside the track.
100000% correct. I only made it as far as 1 go kart hobby season. Money ran out. The end
thank god I'm happy just watching F1 and playing the games ^.^
5:07 Alberto Naska showing on the video, thank you for sharing such footage on his cockpit!
If you win the Powerball, you can then fund your own dreams ...
Everyone take this moment to appreciate how easy and accessible sim racing is ❤
Legend says that to qualify for this guy's 5 billion number all that you need to do is say, 'motorsports are cool'.
Just wanted to say your vids are amazing. It's actually gotten me into F1.
U guna be a driver ?
@@Benucci_music I just pretend to be in my Celica and Supra
Nothing is impossible gang follow your dreams.
The lowests positions on the championship on f1 should be free to new f2 drivers, if the drivers don't succeeded by consecutive years, they're out. by doing that, those drivers would recive lower salaries, and the teams would have more money to spend on the car, and the people would have bigger chances to be a world champion at least 1 time
Well that was a happy video to watch before bed
I love it how your basic assumption of “has passing interest in Motorsport” is equivalent to “willingness to pay tens of thousands of pounds to compete”, but sure, whatever helps you calculate those numbers.
I won the @Driver61 sweepstakes. So the odds for me are about 1. For 3 laps 😅
Nice. Godlike when you get there.
I’m about to Make it to FORMULA 4 and this video popped up man Devastating to watch absolutely gutted 😂
Congratulations mate 🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@howcanyou9151 appreciated man
Damn bro your parents are rich asf
Not if you are lance stroll
You throwing random numbers really shows that you truly don't understand how probability works.
My calculations should be taken with a grain of salt as it’s impossible to know exact numbers for most parts but I based it on how they calculate odds of winning the Powerball.
Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️
Hi great videos. Very informative
Man you cannot Just pick a random number like 5 Billion, devide it blindly and then use it as the reference Point
@matthewd9431 stop crying man it's never that deep
Very well put together video nonetheless, really good job
@DailyFuelUp -
Good video. The actual odds, while still extremely long (100 millions) would need to be discounted by at least 50% up to maybe 75% to take into account the drastic variability of pay and partial pay (sponsorship) drivers within Formula 1. To this day in both F1 and GP2 outright direct pay, and driver-specific sponsorship are critical factors in whether or not one can advance into and sustain a seat at the Formula 1 level. The exception (of course) is pure natural talent - if one is a Schumacher, or Hamilton, or Verstappen.
Street racing is beyond impossible
That thumbnail with Ferrari Schumacher helmet is hot!
5:08 ALBERTO NSKA MENTIONED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im starting karting soon I at least one to try my best to get into a low tier racing series
Go for GT
Just go to endurance racing man
@@dinonuggie1908 Yeah thats probaly the one
and they suddenly appear in WEC
Looking at the current grid most of the drivers are there either because of money, relations, dad , etc..
At the same time I don't mean they don't have talent (Max, Carlos, Leclerc, Norris, etc)
damn, there goes my dream
Nyck de Vries sacking was so uncalled for, they brought back Ricciardo who did not add anything to that seat either, but yet, we have people like Stroll or Saergant taking up seats with ridiculous performance for years in a row...
Got to have a rich daddy pay your way in about anymore.
or sponsorships if you get lucky maybe
Who could it be…
It’s always been like that.
Lewis Hamilton didn't
Mraxx
So, you’re saying there’s a chance?
Yeeesss!!
Nice Dumb And Dumber reference
i thought i should workhard so that i can to my son :
"dont worry abt ur studies my son , be best in what u do , dad got all ur back"
but now realizing i should workhard so that i can say to him :
"money i never gonna be a problem , the only purpose of ur life is to become a F1 champion !"
and we gave birth for u only for that !
jff but i should work hard atleast to say the frst stansa
First of all: You must be born rich and with parents who care about you a lot so they can afford to and will finance you a karting carreer from very young age. Otherwise there is simply no chance...
can you still become a f1 driver at 20+ years old? (If you get really crazy fast and have acess to the money)
No. Have you even started Karting?
If you find a way to get lot of money by doing some business yourself ye there will always be a chance
Solo Developed an MMO.
I got this.
I personally think to become a F1 Driver. In exchange for it. Your family, yourself & everyone who supports you in this early journey would have to give up something big without ever knowing if they would make it. I feel that is the biggest challenge.
The odds are calculated wrong. You are assuming that a person is competing against the entire world population. If you are a young kid who starts in Go Karts, you are probably in a population of around 40k to 50k kids around the world whose families have invested in them and are REALLY serious about racing. These are still very long and difficult odds.
Lance Stroll and his daddy's money have entered the chat.
yeah im sticking to sim racing
Pls can you make a video about Ronnie petterson Aldo called the super swede
Even Karting at a low level running a Briggs LO206 I’m over ten grand on investment.
Before having watched the video, money, stature, driving skills and physical ability off the top of my head. Could probably add mental aptness to deal with the politics, media and fame.
You forgot the one above F1,The FE
People saying money can make your journey short but then what about the skills??? Don't you guys think it requires skills to drive an f1 car its different then those formala 3 4 2 cars and lance stroll daddy bought him the seat but he's still talented not as the other drivers but at least better then all of us
How do you know Stroll is better than you or all of us? At the end of the day motor sports is rich kids vs rich kids, the talent pool is small. If your dad or my dad has Stroll’s money maybe we could be in F1 too.
Is that death footage at the beginning?
These statistics are completely fucked. 5 billion people have not tried to make it as a F1 driver LOL.
Liam Lawson: “tell me about it”
Well. Then I am fine with Mario Kart for now.
I believe sim racing is the future for driver development, and getting them ready for the real thing, it's a lot cheaper and the simulation is getting closer to real life every year.
So far Max Verstappen is the only one who's aware of how useful sim racing can be for real life and is actually planning to make a drivers development project around it
I believe it is still far off real life racing. Neither Hamilton nor Schumacher liked it. Though in Schumachers time he could test without limitation and real driving / real life tests will always be superior to any sim. Nowadays testing is heavy limited and possibly at some point sims will be close to real life indeed.
The sim racing can't provide those 5Gs turn force mate
Only some motion and vibration cannot be compared to the real thing,if you crash you are either injured or die NO RESPAWN NO RESTART
Maybe the key is to put toddlers into sim racing and ignore karting entirely.
i am a 34 year old man and i still dont know how to drive a car and i am going to make it to formula 1 ! it is not that i like it or anything just sounds really cool to add another adventure and experience into my life . think big boys nothing is impossible when you set your mind into !
Liar, 34 is when most drivers move on.
@@IbrahimAli-wi2ui what do you mean i am 34 for real
@user-md8tv5zf6r
Well, there's no way you're getting into F1. That's what I meant.
@@IbrahimAli-wi2ui no man, if you can visualize it you can make it! dream big ! everything is possible you just gotta to work hard for it
Soooo....eSports it is boys?
easy method:
Step 1: win the lottery (1 in a 292mil chance)
Step 2: get into F1 with the money (1 in a smaller amount of millions chance)
Step 3: infinite money glitch
If. You are really good, and also british, you have little more. Chances
Its really sad not many ppl speak about the dark side of F1 and brush it under the rug. In todays F1 vast majority come in to the sport either through their own wealth or through legacy connections. Legacy connections are someone who have a family member already been in F1 hence the path to F1/racing is much easier for such drivers and these drivers include Max Verstappen and Mick Schumacher to name as examples. Then you have drivers whose families can afford to sponsor their career and these drivers include Lando Norris, Nikita Mazepin and Lance Stroll. Ofcourse after Lando proved himself McLaren paid back the money paid by Norris family. Then you have drivers of the 3rd kind who basically come from nothing and are backed by legit sponsors whose sponsorship conditional upon their performance targets and drivera include Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.
I think 5 billion is a wrong, 50 billion is a much more accurate starting point.
So if I win the biggest lottery what are the chances that I buy myself a seat in 🤔
I wonder how proud these people are. How they are in person. Are they nice to decent people?
wish i got into karting as a kid instead of being into scooters and skateboards and yugioh 😂
In Short: Buy a racing seat for 1000€ and play F1 23 or F1 24.
No matter how small the chance is to get there I will start with my son karting in 1 year
best of luck to you and your son then
If you're Penelope Piquet, you will thing this math is wrong:
Her Granddad was a 3x F1 World Chanpion
Her uncle was a F1 racing Driver
Her Stepdad is an F1 3x World Champion (soon to be 4x)
You forgot her father in that mix. Torpedo Kvyat.
@@SimRacingVeteran true haha. They are so many.
@@paganini0332😂😂🤙
Did that guy literally got evaporated by lightning?
Formula Racing should have rules in place where only pure talent matters not money. It would make the sport tear the sky.
but who would want to fund that
Because it’s almost impossible to be born into a family with the interest and the money to make it happen. No one becomes an F1 driver through talent and hard work alone. The more talented and hard working a driver is, the less money and support it will take to get them to F1, but regardless it takes a (literally) 1 in 100 million combination of circumstances to make it happen.
Esteban Ocon is actually the most recent driver to skip F2.
You guys think I can still get in f1 with these chances?
I am good with football😊