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Anonymous asked in SportsAuto RacingOther - Auto Racing · 2 months ago

Can you start professional karting at 21?

I want to get into F1 at least but I'm pretty sure that's too late. I want to go into professional karting and see where it goes from there. I have looked into KF3, KF2, and KF1 being the highest in professional karting. I understand quite a lot about racing and do pretty good when playing video games especially online so my guess is I would do good in racing. I have also thought about rally racing. I know you have to buy a kart worth $3,000 to $10,000 I'm looking for the class that is not equal. I like F1 for it's unequal ability in the car I do like being able to make a vehicle more better. And as for KF3, KF2, and KF1 is I'm not sure if there's an age limit. So could I be able to start it now?

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  • Adam
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    You can do, and drivers have made it to f1 late. However you need a crap load of money to do it. Getting to f1 is tough. You need to get your super licence which costs and race in loads of lower category series. Honestly i would skip karting. Get your basic racing licence and try to land an f4 drive which will cost you give or take $100,000 per season. You will need to do that anyway at some point so may as well start there..

    Then move to f3 if you do well. For a top team and a realistic chance of winning the title, you are talking a cool $500,000 per season

    Then you'll move onto F2. Cost of that ranges from $750000 for a lower end team up to $4000000 per season for a team with a chance of winning the title

    Then F1 where you are talking $8-10 million dollars for a bottom end drive, maybe higher depending on who you are competing against.

    And as well as that you need 40 points for your super licence over 3 years (link in source)...

    You can start now the average career is 2 years in f4 (so $200000), then 2 years in f3 ( so you'll need 1.2 million to get through f3), lower end team in f2 (1.95 million dollars so far), then top end team (5.95 million dollars) then lower end f1 drive (15.95 million dollars). Got that level of cash? You can make a comfortable living doing sim racing on youtube

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