what a man should study to become a formula 1 driver?
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If you want to become a Formula 1 driver then you should learn statistics, then you will realise how unlikely you are actually become one.\n\nSeriously though, you would have to get seriously into karting before the age of 10 then progress onto something like formuala 3000 or another similar car racing sport. \n\nWealthy commited parents would definately be required.
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Read all about it here.\n\nhttp://www.formula1.com/insight/
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Why you'd want to do it is beyond me, anyone can go straight.  But if you must, find the local drag strip.  There are probably some car tuner boards in your area where you can hook up with some folks that go to test and tunes and free run days at the drag strip.\n\nIf you want to get into from a professional standpoint, go to an event and talk to some of the team members, they may be able to point you to an amature series.\n\nIf you want to stay in any motorsport for a long time and leave on your own terms, KEEP IT ON THE TRACK.  Don't get caught up in the egos and put the rest of the public in danger by doing something stupid on the street.  No trophies or points or sponsorship oppurtunites on the street.
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Well, if you start in karts at around six or seven and move up through the different formulae such as the Star Mazda Series, Formula Ford, Formula 2000, Formula Atlantic, Formula Three, maybe A1GP and GP2, you might make it to Formula One and the chances are you would be anywhere from 19 to 22 at this stage.\nTeams are usually looking for a driver with a lot of talent and, unless you are really fortunate enough to attract a sponsor, you will have spent a lot of your own or your family's money in those lower formulae. Some teens in competitive karting have budgets in the $25,000 range. \nSponsors are usually looking for someone who can get them exposure for their product.\nThere are Japanese drivers in F1 (not a huge amount of them) because there is a lot of racing in Japan at the lower levels and almost all of the better ones move to England at some stage or other to race in ultra competitive series' such as Formula 2000 and Formula Three, so you are incorrect is suggesting they `have very little racing experience.' Not surprisingly Japanese sponsors often want Japanese drivers with teams they either own or sponsor heavily.\nThere are few black drivers in any form of racing, including karting. Californian Willy T. Ribbs is probably the most successful black open-wheel racer. He moved to England for awhile when he was young and actually raced against Ayrton Senna in a Formula Ford series. He was successful in Formula Atlantic cars, but had only limited success in the CART series. Sadly, he is known for being involved in a fatal accident at the first Vancouver Molson Indy, one that killed a track marshal. I really don't think Willy ever aspired to be an F1 driver.\nThere is a real chance that we will see the first black driver in F1 next year, if Ron Dennis decides to put his protégé, Lewis Hamilton, in one of his McLaren cars.
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Start in kart racing. NOW. Get really, really good. then hope you're noticed. Red Bull has a driver search program. The link is below\n\nKimi Räikkönen only had 23 professional races when he was signed by Peter Sauber.You don't need a lot of experience, you just need to be really, really good.
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The last one to compete (or at least try to) in F1 was Giavanna Amati in 1992. But she failed to qualify, more often than not by ending up backwards in a gravel trap.... and was subsequently replaced by Damon Hill until the team finally went under (and of course we all know how far Damon got, don't we?) + according to Williams driver Mark Webber women are too logical to race in F1.\n\nAnd the route to get into F1 to start off with is long and tedious, and most of the present drivers started off racing go-karts not long after they first started walking before moving on to Formula Ford, Formula3, Formula3000 / Formula Nippon / GP2 / IRL,  before they got to Formula1.
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Formula Three teams usually depend on drivers bringing sponsorship to the team. I'm sure the budget for a single car with a British F3 team would be at least $500,000.
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Get a licence\nIn Britain, from January 1 this year, the licensing rules were changed and every driver wishing to contest stage rallies now has to hold a Stage Rally Competition Licence.\n\nComplete novices will have to complete a BARS (British Association of Rally schools) course and apply to British rallying's governing body, the MSA, for a "Go Rallying Pack". For £39 you will receive an MSA Competitors' yearbook, a novice application and a video on rallying.\n\nThe next step is attending one of the 10 registered BARS schools for a 15-minute theory test and a driving test lasting roughly 10 minutes. If you successfully pass both, you can send off your application and a 'National B' status licence will be yours.\n\nThe National B licence\nThis piece of paper is your gateway to the various national rally championships at clubman level. Alternatively you could join a one-make series, of which there are currently four in the UK run by Peugeot, Ford and Volkswagen.\n\nThere are advantages to both but with a one-make series you will learn fast and compete against people at your level. A full season in a one-make series will be relatively cost effective and coupled with that you have the back-up of a manufacturer and skilled personnel at your disposal. Indeed, reigning world rally champion, Richard won Peugeot's one-make series, the Peugeot Challenge in 1991.\n\nPeugeot Sport boss, Mick Linford offers his words of advice: "My own point of view is that a one-make championship is a very level playing field. You go into the championship knowing that everything is down to your driving.\n\n"To anyone wanting to get started in rallying, get as many events under your belt as you can. Nothing beats experience. Also build up that experience with a regular co-driver."\n\nThe next step\nPlayStation gamers will think this is a little like Gran Turismo because once you've competed successfully at National B level, the next step-up licence wise is the 'National A', which you can upgrade to after contesting four of the 'National B' events.\n\nThis opens up a whole new world of rallying with access to national championships such as ANCRO or BTRDA and the British Rally Championship (BRC).\n\nThe BRC has traditionally been the step-up to world rallying and a talent spotters' paradise. Four-time world champion Tommi Makinen is a past competitor in a Nissan and Colin McRae stepped-up from the Scottish Championship to the British series winning in 1991 and '92.\n\n"The championship is Britain's premier series geared up to give any talented driver, in any class of car, the chance to win," says Mark Taylor, championship manager for the BRC.\n\n"It's held over seven qualifying rounds and is a mixture of demanding, high-quality tarmac and gravel events. Drivers with Super 1600, WRC or Production cars can gain experience of top-class, competitive rallying and the top team managers view any BRC champion as a potential star of the future."\n\nFor budding Finnish rally drivers, the Finnish Championship is also a breeding ground for future WRC talent. Marcus Gronholm and Harri Rovanpera are among the successful graduates who have made the transition to the world stage.\n\nBut also remember that while you are talented, you don't necessarily have to be in the best car to get yourself noticed. Ford's young gun for the 2002 season Markko Martin was originally spotted driving a Lada in the Estonian Rally Championship.\n\nAnd for some world rally debuts are lucky breaks. Quite literally for Norwegian Petter Solberg who replaced Thomas Radstrom on the Safari Rally when the Ford driver broke his leg!\n\nCareer swaps?\nYou don't have to start your career in rallying either. Carlos Sainz was a Formula Ford driver before he switched his allegiance to rallying, Belgian ace Francois Duval started out in karting and Petter Solberg was a rallycrosser.\n\nBut what
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Formula 1. Partly because I like F1 racing, and partly because I don't know what UFC is, F1 racers seem to get the girls!
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Unquestionably the best ever Formula One driver was the great Juan Manual Fangio, followed closely by Alberto Ascari. I really don't expect the kids who answer questions here to select either Fangio or Ascario; few, if any, remember anything before Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher.\nDanny Sullivan had a very short Formula One career - one season (15 races in 1983) with Tyrrell. He had one fifth place finish (at Monaco) and finished the season in 17th place, with two points.
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Ah....THE STIG.\n A well known man in driving circles.\nHis ability to drive sideways and keepa £400000 car on the pitch allow him the rare ability to have favour with insurance companies.\n Word has it he has rally experience, but better yet many a year on the circuit in Europe.\n He makes top Gear reach the speeeeeeeeed it needs and deserves.
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Go to driving school.
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Formula 1 is a motorsport, with drivers and constructors fighting for the championship. There's qualifying rounds an races all over the world.
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There are schools that you can go to. The skip barber Race School, has "classes" at different race tracks around the country. best bet is to go to a track day, the instructors can help you along.\n i think you have to be at least 18 in some forms of motorsport. i think there were three guys last year who where younger though who did a race in SCCA Speed World Challenge
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Only five woman have become Formula One drivers and all have had very limited success, so, unfortunately your chances of joining them, especially being from India, are very, very slim.\nI'm sure the names mean absolutely nothing to you, but they are:\nMaria Teresa de Filippis - Italy.\nDivina Galica - England.\nLella Lombardi - Italy.\nDesire Wilson - South Africa.\nGiovanna Amati - Italy\nLombardi was the most successful, starting 12 points-scoring races and she scored half-a-point for being in sixth place at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix when the race was stopped after 29 laps were completed.\nAmati was the last woman in Formula One; she tried and failed to qualify for three races with Brabham-Judd in 1993.\nWilson actually won an F1 race (at Brands Hatch in England), but it was in the short-lived British Aurora series for older Formula One cars.\nContrary to what someone else posted, a woman wouldn't have a weight advantage in Formula One; the minimum weight includes the car and driver as well as all lubricants, but not fuel.  \nIf you are serious about becoming and F1 driver, not just dreaming, you would have to follow the path a lot of drivers took: Move to England and race in the lower formulae - Formula Ford, Formula Ford, Formula Renault, Formula Three, GP2 ... Remember there are only 22 active F1 drivers (24 in 2008) and a handful of test drivers.
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maybe third or fourth. i'm his fan (i started to watch motorsport since just last year, but was astounded by him)! he's doing quite good for a rookie in 990cc. i guess he'll finish the first among all the rookies this year!
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Way better. Just look at this: I think that there was only one person that won the Indy car championship and then won the Formula 1 Drivers' Title (Jacques Villeneuve: IndyCar in 1995 and F1 in 1997, after Michael Schumacher's disqualification). There are some pilots that won the Drivers' Championship in F1 and then went on to IndyCar and won there, but there are only 2, I guess: Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell. There are some more drivers that won in IndyCar and then came to Formula 1: Juan Pablo Montoya, won the IndyCar in 1999 or something like that and in 2001 he was driving for Williams in F1; Cristiano da Matta won the IndyCar in 2001, then he came into F1 and sucked. After 2 seasons, I think he returned to IndyCar.\nSo, except maybe for a single driver, who had his moment of glory in F1 after winning in Indy, all the drivers that won the Drivers' Title in F1 were purely F1 pilots. So that is a proof that F1 drivers are better than IndyCar drivers.\nPlus, F1 drivers only run on an oval course for about a quarter of the distance of a single race during the course of a 18-race season. (Turns 12, 13 and the Start-Finish section of the Indianapolis circuit are located on the oval. The rest of the track is a twisty, 11-turn section located inside the oval. Turn 13 was the cause for the Michelin boycott last year that caused the American GP to be run by only 6 cars.) IndyCar drivers run on the ovals for half the season. You need way more skill to race around a normal course then for an oval. That's why my choice is for the Formula 1 drivers.