Let’s say you are an adult and you have always wanted to be a race car driver. Or let’s say you are a kid, without a driver’s license, and you would like to learn to be a race car driver. You have several options.

One relatively inexpensive way is to start by driving a kart, as seen here:

Here is a 13-year-old who has been successful in carting:

A nice introduction to a kart and track can be found here.

The second way would be to go to a school like the Skip Barber racing school and learn to drive an open-wheel race car or an MX-5. The following video describes how to climb the professional ladder:

The MX-5 series:

Here’s another way to do it if you are well-off financially. In this documentary, a guy named Jack Atley “saves all his money, travels across the world” and drives a real Formula 1 car. It’s fascinating:

Part 2

One other way is described here – Practice on video games and then transfer your virtual racing knowledge to the real world:

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