Why It's Almost Impossible to Become an F1 Driver
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 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 💀
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
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?
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
hundreds of hearts shattred after watcing this video
Shattered even.
Mine as a future father 😂
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.
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
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.
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 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
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.
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
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?
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.
Ihhh there are not 5 billion people interested in becoming an f4 driver 😂
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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@@MCOGroupNews Yeah but he can actually be good when he tries. He's genuinely brilliant in the rain, too. Sadly, I think it's just a hobby for him though and he doesn't take it that seriously.
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.
2:10 Ayoo that was my mechanic in Parolin 😂😂
And this is why we sim race haha
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.
Great Video like always mate!
Thanks for the support mate ❤️
Not if you are lance stroll
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...
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.
So, you’re saying there’s a chance?
Yeeesss!!
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.
Nice. Godlike when you get there.
Well that was a happy video to watch before bed
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 won the @Driver61 sweepstakes. So the odds for me are about 1. For 3 laps 😅
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)
You throwing random numbers really shows that you truly don't understand how probability works.
thank god I'm happy just watching F1 and playing the games ^.^
wish i got into karting as a kid instead of being into scooters and skateboards and yugioh 😂
I’m about to Make it to FORMULA 4 and this video popped up man Devastating to watch absolutely gutted 😂
Congratulations mate 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Esteban Ocon is actually the most recent driver to skip F2.
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
You will never chamge my mind that F1is just rich people go karts
How it’s always been.
These statistics are completely fucked. 5 billion people have not tried to make it as a F1 driver LOL.
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
Pls can you make a video about Ronnie petterson Aldo called the super swede
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
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.
and they suddenly appear in WEC
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?
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.
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
Formula Racing should have rules in place where only pure talent matters not money. It would make the sport tear the sky.
The only hope would be to get richer and then purchase and own a Formula 1 car and drive it on real world circuits.
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
Hey, there's me in the video 🙋♂
If you take action you are already ahead of 99.999999% of people out there ;-)
Cope
Soooo....eSports it is boys?
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.
Nigel Mansell grafted his arse off to get into F1 even remortgaging his house. He’s the people’s champion
Fear not. Either a small loan of a million dollars you can race in most series.
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)
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.
You forgot the one above F1,The FE
never heard one person in my life say “i want to drive for F1” it’s a boring ass sport
Even Karting at a low level running a Briggs LO206 I’m over ten grand on investment.
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😂😂🤙
So if I win the biggest lottery what are the chances that I buy myself a seat in 🤔
RESPECTO🙏🏽
Did you say Trulli?
So you’re saying I still have a change … 😊
It’s all about money . Enough money you can get in
I am good with football😊
Always cracks me up that people buy Hamilton's "poor" sob story.
Yeah bud born from a rich family
5:15 it's not accurate because like 25% cap wanted to drive in racing (males/females) so it's like 25% lower. But it's still almost 0%
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).
The same point of "it requires a ridiculous amount of money to make it and then you still might not make it" was repeated in this video in about ten different ways. I think we get the point buddy it didn't need to be said that many times. I'm just giving some constructive criticism so I hope you're not too sensitive. The rest of the video was great though I just thought it was worth letting you know about the unnecessary repetition of the same point. Hope that helps.
Lance: nah, you just need to have a good daddy and happens he has billions of fortune
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.
Verstappen might be brilliant, but let's not forget that ib 2015 he received a great ammount of hate that he entered the sport as a pay driver on his father's name
In Short: Buy a racing seat for 1000€ and play F1 23 or F1 24.
do my luck on power ball and win then buy my way into f1
You’re gonna have to show some skill at lower levels. Gotta get those points for a super license. Money can’t buy points.
What kind of milkmaid bills are these? Being interested in motorsports doesn't necessarily mean that you can or want to drive yourself.
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.
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
But someone is still trying. Are they all crazy? Tell em to try the lottery
Just be born in the Stroll family
nah, I'd win
its super sad lance stroll has taken a seat from better drivers
I believe F2 has 22 drivers this year.
So explain Mazepin
You need to adjust your numbers to only include people who actually TRY to be an F1 driver, not just have a mere interest in racing. Fewer than one in 100 kids starts karting, so making it to F1 isn't THAT impossible. I know a few racing drivers who have all done very well, two reaching A1GP and one even GP2 and Superleague Formula (and winning). So, in a nutshell... it's possible but just watching it on TV won't work ;)
In f3 theres only 30 drivers??
Now days the real talent is money.
F2 champions except the last 2, havee 100% chance to have seat in the f1.
Its just like NASCAR i wish they wouldn't do this then i would be in the top 10 of all time in F1
even better i wil become one
What’s the chance of gt3, lmp?
Way higher, still requires time but it is way more likely
jeez man I am only 10! never tell a pre teen the ods.
Unless your dad owns Aston Martin f1
6:49 , funny how Stroll gets the sticks while immediately after and in an even more important series- Verstappen is excused and simply say how it isn't the norm..
Stroll did extremely well in literally every series he competed in prior to F1. Stroll is not a good driver in F1 as a whole, he does have quite a number of great drives including a pole position, 4 podiums, 4 4th place finishes, most overtakes within a season from 2017-19 consecutively, does poor in qualy but usually makes up for it in the start of races where he picks up a handful of positions by the end of lap 2... BUT, he is very inconsistent and it's this inconsistency that I think he shouldn't be in the sport. Saying all that though, I'm so sick of the constant Stroll shoutouts acting like he's this terrible Mazepin-level driver who hasn't accomplished anything in the sport..
Everyone loves Hulkenberg yet he had many opportunities and still in 15 years has never reached a podium.... Stroll got his first podium in just his 8th F1 race entry at the very difficult and technical Azerbaijan GP in 2017.. He got overtaken just a few meters before the finish line and finished a tenth from 2nd place to Bottas in the most powerful Mercedes engine down the longest straight in the Calendar.. Stroll was in a Williams- the 4/5th quickest car that season.. He has talent, just all this unwarranted excessive- almost obsessive disses towards Stroll are getting old, basically unoriginal at this point. Hell, without Lawrence, this field could very well have been a 16 car grid (although Andretti I'm sure would have zero issues getting in right now lol).
Fine. I'll just race Indy.
You still telling me, here is a chance…Jim Carrey😂
Looking at all the drivers, must need to be stunningly attractive too lol
No Niki Lauda was told he looked like a rat.
there is not 5 billion people trying to become a f1 driver that whould mean more than half the world whould be trying which half the world cant even afford carting. good video though!