What does it take to become an f1 driver ?

i am 14 and very much into f1 and nascar , more f1. i wan to know how to become a f1 driver, what school and where .|||It's a little late in the game to start training to be in F1, but it's about the same age when Sutil started, so there's still hope. Check your local areas and state for racing facilities and racing/training programs, like Skip Barber. It's quite an investment, financially, as well as mentally and physically.|||lol you don't really go to school... you have to get into road course racing on a smaller scale, spend hours and hours behind the wheel of a car, if you're a good racer than you move up from class to class until eventually you get to F1... it's like any other sport. you play little league then high school baseball then college then AAA ball then the pros if you're good. same with racing. you'll probably start out racing go karts then on to something bigger then on to indy car types and on to F1 but like any other professional sport, you have to be very, very good to make it.|||You'll have to start off racing carts and if you're good enough then you could probably move up into one of the lower Formula categories. And if you continue to improve you could make it up to GP2 which is where almost all the F1 drivers race. Pretty much the only GP2 drivers that go to F1 have won a GP2 championship.





That's the (very) simplified method.





Good luck!|||Man, at 14 years old... you're starting a little late. Alot of F1 drivers have had Manufacturers grooming them since they were like 10 years old. But yeah, as stated: find your nearest cart racing track %26amp; find out what you need to do to start competing. You'll need to buy your own cart in most cases. They're like $3000+. Don't let this stuff discourage you though! Go for it! F1 is the pinnacle of Motorsports, though. Even if you aim for F1 and fall short and end up somewhere like Lemans, DTM or even SCCA racing that's still more than what most ppl can even hope or dream to achieve! Just go out and have fun first!|||Its either you have the talent or you dont...





The most important thing beside talent is that you need a very rich sponsor to back you up in the Succeeding formulas to make it to F1...





Stick with Nascar if your an American...|||Get a kart, start winning races. Commit 10,000 hours to this and you will become a professional. I'm not joking about the 10,000 hours rule, look it up.|||be a zillionare and pay HRT to let you drive around for a week or two.





AND they'll even put your name in the side of the car in big white letters!!!|||Well if you are in a different country than the us well you don't have a great chance but you just may never know.