Why It's Almost Impossible to Become an F1 Driver
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.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 💀
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...
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
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.
hundreds of hearts shattred after watcing this video
Shattered even.
Mine as a future father 😂
Lol with this math you mean 5 billion
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.
@@quAdxify I'd say it's about those who want vs those who can afford. If one wants to become an f1 driver, finances is one of the limiting factor that decreases their chances, so those people still should be included in the stats. But surely 5 billion just doesn't make any sense.
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.
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.
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 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.
Start sim racing
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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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
I support you G! What's your name?? I'll remember it when you become the greatest formula 1 driver in the world. My wishes to you on your journey 😊
We never see the ultimate skills of what humanity has to offer. Instead we always see the the ultimate skills of the millionaires have to offer, Ill bet there's a difference, there will be somebody out there with nothing and yet could wipe the floor with them all, same in the motorbike world
Legend says that to qualify for this guy's 5 billion number all that you need to do is say, 'motorsports are cool'.
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.
A lot of people dont think about the price that this takes
Makes you wonder how crazy the grid could be if the seriously talented could give f1 a shot without needing crazy money
And this is why we sim race haha
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 😂
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 😂
This video is literally the best advert for buying lottery tickets
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
Which F4? What’s your name? And how much money did it take you?
I know it might seem weird a stranger is asking you a thousand questions but tbh I am really curious.
And I wanna see my chances
Its crazy that the 2025 driver line up includes THREE new drivers coming up from F2, Kimi Antonelli, Ollie Bearman and Jack Doohan, and its gonna be so interesting with so many rookies all in different teams fighting for points next season.
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 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
I agree with your saying but sadly when Jean (the oldest F1 driver to win a go at 41) F1 and motorsports were just starting out. Now in the modern era the chances are so slim after 13!
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.
The only thing for football is something for a goalpost, well said sir, keep kicking that goalpost.
These statistics are completely fucked. 5 billion people have not tried to make it as a F1 driver LOL.
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.
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
That's not a bad idea but a driver still has to have an income to live on .
The mention of 5 billion ruined the whole comment section
Kinda inaccurate. It's not 1 in 5 billion, its 1 in (the amount of people that try). You drastically increase the odds if you actually go into karting and pursue the dream. 4.9 billion aren't interested and don't really count whereas the lotto is mathematical calculated odds.
I'm sure is more like 1 in a couple hundred thousand or the amount of people actively pursuing being a driver.
wish i got into karting as a kid instead of being into scooters and skateboards and yugioh 😂
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.
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...
If you win the Powerball, you can then fund your own dreams ...
Connections would be a big factor here, I wonder how many talented drivers get cut because of not knowing big players
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
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
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
It helps to define who you want to include into the stats. I mean it's easy to compete with someone who don't want to compete with you. If you start with 5 billion people, and you just WANT to become an F1 driver you are probably outpaced most of them already. If you have the money to start karting you get straight to the top of that list. If you are age appropriate then you are at the top of those who do carting and so on and so on.
Surely, it's unbelievably hard to get to F1, but if one just wants to manipulate and stretch the numbers there are always ways to do that. It just doesn't help.
100000% correct. I only made it as far as 1 go kart hobby season. Money ran out. The end
I was watching motorcycle racing on Amazon a few months ago and it must be even harder because they all seem to have to be ridiculously handsome
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😂😂🤙
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
No.
Ask Alex Palou. He was a guy who didn't find his speed until he was around 20 and almost won Super Formula as a rookie.
Now as of today he is a 3 time IndyCar champion and it's only his 5th season at 26 years old.
But he'll never have a shot at F1
5:07 Alberto Naska showing on the video, thank you for sharing such footage on his cockpit!
nah, I'd win
Did that guy literally got evaporated by lightning?
Win the lottery, take driving lessons, and buy your way into F1.
No. You have to demonstrate some level of talent at the lower levels. Money can’t buy you points for a super licence.
The analysis is cool but the numbers make no sense, the original pool has to be a) only males b) only people who actually apply themselves and start karting at least on an amateur level.
Lakhs of hearts broke after this video.
But its a fact,
May be you can pray to god that, if there is another life after death, give me a family like Lance stroll
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.
He said 1 in 15 million make it idk if that’s counting from f2 f3 and f4. Idk if it’s accurate or not but it’s very difficult even if ur good there aren’t many seats open to get in and money hurdles on top of it. It is only 20 drivers split between 10 teams.
Being born rich or into a family with someone who was already an F1 driver is certainly a step up
Let's not forget Zhou Guanyu. He didn't win a single F2 title but is in F1. It does help having The Chinese Communist Party behind you
You have a huge chance of being a billionaire vs an f1 driver
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.
Not if you are lance stroll
thank god I'm happy just watching F1 and playing the games ^.^
In fact, the chances of getting into this sport are even lower, since at least one place will always be reserved for the son or some relative of former Formula 1 racers
How about Rally ? I wanna do this
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
and they suddenly appear in WEC
the probability of these vdieo doesnt make sense how 5billions are trying compete for 560 seats ?
*20 seats
Soooo....eSports it is boys?
So, you’re saying there’s a chance?
Yeeesss!!
Nice Dumb And Dumber reference
Bro is trying to crash my dreams with that intro 😂
I made it to renault campus. If I class as top 5,I'll transition to formula 4 then I'll climb up little by little but I'll be come an f1 driver, and I'll be the first algerian as an f1 driver and I'll win in monaco. Mark my word. 🙂
your initial premise is wrong so then all your calculations. In reality, 5 billion haven't heard of F1 and the rest up until 7.8 billion don't care about it. Do you think F1 has a viewership of at least 5 billion? You must had misread the source info, probably at most 500 mil
Sometime I like to forget about the odds and actually going for it
Well that was a happy video to watch before bed
Sometimes I like to forget about the odds and actually going for it
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.
If you are karting and so on since 4 then you learn the skills like anything else along the way
If. You are really good, and also british, you have little more. Chances
yep its all about the £. I have a mate who is brutally fast - whenever we go karting he wipes the floor with everyone. But he got hammered by the guys who threw endless wads at it. Even Senna, for all his brilliance would likely to of had to settle for being an exceptionally fast bus driver had his family not been rolling in it. Funny how they help support women coz they have different body parts when thats not the issue. Its a lack of cash - regardless of gender. (not taking away the skill some of these guys have, but we need to put it in perspective)
I’m in karting got 23 wins and got sponsorship backing for f4 but I might want formula e
How old are you I’m 10 and I’m just gonna start doing karting I’m also in the USA could you help me? I was thinking to do f1 or formula e
5:20 Bro needs to go to college to calculate the math number properly.😂
Street racing is beyond impossible
That thumbnail with Ferrari Schumacher helmet is hot!
You're so wrong. I'd even argue 1 billion people heard of F1. You're off by billions miles
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.
So if I win the biggest lottery what are the chances that I buy myself a seat in 🤔
5:20 - This is in the wrong calculation. Yes, there are 5 billion racing fans. How many of them are aged 8-14? Maybe 200M, now you cut that 50% by males only, for those 560 male seats.
Now again, from those 100M, how many of them have money to fund that? Maybe 0.1%, so that is again cut down to 10.000, and from those 10.000, how many of them have talent, wellness and so on? Maybe 1k, so yea you have 50% to drive in F4 IF you have money....
A key objective is MONEY.
Lance Stroll laughing at this video 🤣🤣
damn, there goes my dream
Dude stop with the stupid 1 in X million chance of becoming an F1 driver rubbish.
The chances of me becoming an f1 driver are zero percent, because I’m not even in Motorsport and in my late twenties.
A kid karting every weekend already has massively greater odds than your video states.
I get what you’re going for but you’re acting as if people are randomly getting chosen from the population to become F1 drivers 😂
Makes you realise just how privileged some of these guys are, how much sacrifice their parents go through financially and time, I’m thinking Lewis Hamilton and all his moaning now makes me even sicker.
Solo Developed an MMO.
I got this.
Even Karting at a low level running a Briggs LO206 I’m over ten grand on investment.
f1 game i buy it mine i play until im bored
So I win the lottery and then I become f1 driver
No. You probably will run out of money before getting halfway there.
Just make the new team
Another reason why we need at least 2 other team in F1
And more engine freedom, its almost a spec serie at this point but only 3-4 team get to make some point, with redbullb winning almost everything #Boooooooring
The first and most important thing you need is rich parents!
if you have that, it is just matter of couple years to get there.
I just have one question: why would you put yourself in that stressful situation? I'd rather try to get a good-paying job and rest on a hammock!
by your math 1 out of every 2 person is interested in F1 as a racer... coming from india i can assure you no one in my 1 mile vicinity has not or barely heard of F1 let alone being a racer
Ikr
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.
The jet fighter pilot is laughing😂
You guys think I can still get in f1 with these chances?
I had to give up my ambition to become a racer even before I even had a chance to touch a go kart, because my father is too lazy to work. A sloth with audacity to verbally trash the ambition of his son, while everyday is too busy criticising government's economic policy and acting like a social justice warrior.
Look, study Electrical or Chemical Engineering. Even the most mediocre Engineer makes a very good living because the demand is very high! You can also do Plumbing if you don’t like school; they also make a very damn good living and work never ends.
I am good with football😊