how do i go about becoming an F1 driver?
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1. Learn how to drive.\n2. Practice driving.\n3. Try karting (like Michael Schumacher did).\n4. Try driving a taxi cab or similar PUV (like Mika Hakkinen did).\n5. Try to slim down.\n6. Try to become smaller.\n7. Enter a racing school, preferably F1 racing schools.\n8. Earn a racing license, I don't know if F1 has different racing licenses.\n9. Look for smaller tourneys like F2's, F3's and the like and try to be the best (like Juan Pablo Montoya).\n10. Find an F1 racing team, preferably the low earners like the Jordan team that we used to have (remember how Karthikeyan tasted 1 F1 season?).\n11. Transfer to a more decent team in case opportunity arises (don't be like Takuma Sato, please).
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You have to prove you know how to drive, so you have to take the driving part. Or take a driver's ed class, and you study and drive with the instructor, and get your license with the class's completion.
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Being a pilot is fun, especially if you love to travel. There is always someplace new to see and the view is great. \nAn aspiring civilian pilot can do their flight training and earn their licenses & ratings via these routes:\n\nA university aviation program (career track)\nAn aviation academy program (career track)\nA local flight school or flying club (career track OR recreational pilot)\n\nIf you simply want to be a Private Pilot, you should go to your local airport and investigate the schools or clubs on the field. Then get PPL course and rate info from each. Not all schools or clubs charge the same prices. Some are much more expensive than others.\n\nTo become a Private Pilot in the USA you must:\n1)meet the physical/medical requirements\n2)pass a written examnation*\n3)log a minimum of 40 hours of flight time (10 alone as a student and at least 20 with an instructor)\n4)pass an oral exam*\n5)pass a flight test\n\n*study for these tests can be one on one with an instructor or be taken via a 'ground school' course.\n\nMy flight training and pilot career website addresses How To Become A Pilot, espcially for those on the career track. Visit: http://www.geocities.com/av8trxx99/FAQ.html\n\nGet additional info at these links:\nhttp://flightinfo.com/learntofly.html\nhttp://www.aopa.org/learntofly/startfly\nhttp://www.beapilot.com\nhttp://www.jetcareers.com
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Just have somebody you know train you how to drive, and take the test. If you fail, then consider driving school.
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All F1 drivers must be in top shape for every race. Formula 1 is a physically demanding sport for all drivers. So my guess is that he is very fit.\n\n\n(Some say that the pilot that is the most fit from the F1 group is M. Schumacher)
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Study the driving handbook, and find someone who will take you out to practice before you test.  Drive like you have a police officer in the car...use your turn signals, don't speed...etc.
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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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Your ambition is great! Unfortunately, you're between a rock & a hard spot. Serious racing sponsors consider not just experienced racers, but only those with winning records. Nobody wants to be in last place & few want to be connected with a nameless rookie. I know that sounds cruel, but those are the facts. Before I retired, approving & issuing sponsorships for racecars & show cars was part of my job. I turned down hundreds of racers & only bought into a few each year. If you can grasp the reality that no one is going to pay you to learn (if they would, we'd all be drivers), I can tell you how to proceed.\nYou need to eat, sleep & breathe racing. You should be at the track every chance you get. You need to talk to & become friendly with drivers, owners & technicians. You should offer to help with the dirty work, even for free.  Once you're in this circle it is much easier to gain a sponsorship.  Most often drivers/owners get sponsors through networking.  That is, knowing someone who knows someone who knows someone who recommends you to a sponsor. Get car people on your side.  It isn't easy.  But if it was...well, you know.
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Hmmm.   I am not at all convinced by this!\n\nAfter all, we hear about cars being 3 or even 5 seconds faster, but it never seems to come to fruition!\n\nAt the practice at Canada, their practice times were:\n21. Takuma Sato Japan Super Aguri-Honda 01:19.088\n22. Franck Montagny France Super Aguri-Honda 01:19.152\nThese times are about 2 seconds slower than the 20th car - and if you take 3 seconds from that, you get 1 minute 16 seconds.   That would have put them in 15th!   I just hope that you can achieve it!\n\nSorry, Super Aguri - you are having a very bruising start to your F1 career.   However, I hope you can do the improvements to the car as it will make things much closer during the race!   \n\nGood luck!
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The cheapest route is to go to your local tech school for automotive technologies, and then get on a race team, and work your way "up"\n\nother schools are available but I feel they are cost prohibitive. \nAnother thought is that there are more teams available in late model Nascar type racing.\nMost people involved in top fuel racing, are racers and/or car owners.
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Well Michael Schumacher is the best Formula 1 driver in the world. If yu are able to get him for an interview that would be great and i wish you all the best in that. However, since it is Formula 1 season now which ends late October 2006 i think it will be hard for you to meet him between now til October due to tarining and so on.
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Practice is the only way. It is a skilled best learned by watching and during. The "tricks" all revolve around where to look and how to line things up. Go out and practice with someone that drives well like a parent or older friend.
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Check out www.f1study.com
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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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Hope this helps\n\nhttp://www.champcarworldseries.com/FrontPage.asp\n\nLet me know how this works out for you.
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WELL YOU WOULD FIRST APPLY FOR A JOB AT A DRIVING SCHOOL AND THEN YOU WOULD HAVE TO BECOME STATE APPROVED . THE DRIVING SCHOOL WOULD HAVE ALTHAT INFORMATION .
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Do you own a race car? Without one, you won't be able to race at your local track. Best thing to do is head for a kart track, rent a kart and start driving. Next step would be to buy your own kart and start racing. After that you can possibly move up to Formula  Ford and Formula 2000.