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Are you willing to sell your car, couch, tv, watch, shoes etc to become a racing driver?.

Are you willing to sell your Playstation to become a racing driver?.

Standard questions I ask young kids who want to follow in my footsteps: These include raising a ton of money, sacrificing certain luxuries and materialistic items, dealing with friends and family questioning your life choices and of course the challenge of learning to be a fast racing driver. There are many other elements that will get in your way. If you can’t motivate yourself to get out of bed everyday and do exactly what’s required to achieve your goals, then you will stumble and fail.ĭedication is not just being able to exercise everyday or watch what you eat. This is the number 1 requirement to becoming a professional sportsman. So to become a racing driver, fundamentally you need to tick these items: What I did have in my favour was a decent karting career in my late teens to early twenties… and a total obsession since I was 3 years old.

Professional circuit racer cars drivers#

Professional racing drivers are on a similar level, aka brilliant.ĭon’t let that get in your way though, I was 29 years and 6 months old when I decided it was time to take it seriously. It’s much like someone saying they want to become a Premier League Football player, having never played a serious game of football their whole lives. If you didn’t race a kart or a car before your 20’s it does get considerably more difficult.

Professional circuit racer cars driver#

The first thing to recognize is that becoming a Professional Racing Driver takes a lot of time and A LOT of money… and of course a decent dose of talent. Since that day I promised to reply to every single person who asked me the same question but maybe it’s time I write something more substantial instead. I mailed a Semi-Pro driver called David Heinemeier Hansson, on the weekend of Le Mans that year and to my surprise he responded immediately… It’s a question I had to ask as well, particularly when I got back on the horse to pursue a GT Career, in 2014, after a six year break. The number one question I get asked all the time is “How do I become a racing driver?”