Want to get into serious racing

I mean really to get into Pro racing you don't have to be good you just have to have a shitload of money.

>millenials are so lazy these days they never wanna do anything with their lives or work
>but also fuck millenials for wanting to achieve something and break into a very tough sport and put in practice, just fucking give up you special snowflake
amazing arguments in this thread, this is the most defeatist, cynical, depressing thread I've seen in a while, why is this board so terrible.

>want to get into serious racing

The field has very many people with skill. So that's not a problem. If you don't have skill, then that is your first hurdle. What those other people lack is sponsors that stick with them and keep funding a competitive vehicle.

As you can guess, there are only so many races with any real financial prizes. And those prizes are limited in number. So that's why many racers that even win occasionally are still negative in financial earnings. Where the money comes from is sponsors who sell products or product licensing or marketing based upon your personal brand. They make money from that and share some of that with you by sponsoring your vehicle. From that, your personal racing corporation then pays transportation, entry fees, licenses, salaries, vehicle parts, support hardware, repairs, maintenance, and training fees and training classes for certification.

As others have said, it is very expensive. You spend a ton of money and never make it back from prize winnings. Just like most everyone else. But it's those sponsors that make money selling products that use your branding in return for sponsoring you. But they will drop you if you are disadvantageous to them.

So, others have told you about needing skills. Sure, but the real hurdle is not expert reaction skills which we assume everyone has. It is the personality, tenacity, and luck needed to obtain and keep sponsors. If you get rich, then you can then have a bigger say on what you do in the race world as well as sell your own products and rich from that.

One way sponsors value your racing is by how many points you earn in sanctioned racing events. So you can study what those racers are like and how those races are like and what is necessary in those races.

Most races are run by team corporations. Thus you as the racer are an employee AND you have signed over your IP rights to the team corporation. You realize that fine point? You don't have IP.

OP here. This is not something just about this board. Whenever anyone asks for something to give them hope in any subject there's always some people who genuinely believes and tries to prove why all hope its waste. I thank the previous user for his point of view, but i would probably hate myself if at least i didn't try to, and crash and burn trying to do something that i wanted with my life.

While i value your input i do know some of that already. The reason why you need money to begin with its to fill the shoes that no sponsor fills. I do know that being a pro racer mostly becomes being a fucking sellout too.

In case i cant make it as a driver, at least i could try as a mechanic, right? i mean, i am studying that already.

"How fucked am i?" I would say you're fucked as far as getting into any serious racing, but I have a friend who does autocross as a hobby in a ratty 90's Subaru in Canada. As long as you don't take it too seriously you're fine, but compete with real pros, and you'll be fucked beyond belief.

This is some top tier pop-sci garbage. By your logic we should be training fighter pilots at 8 instead of their mid 20s.

I think he's correct El Taco. Your dreams can't start when you're 20 unless they're to be shitty.

I didn't say OP was going to be a pro driver because he isn't on account of being poor and stuck in the third world but you don't lose the ability to acquire or perfect new skills when you hit 20. For reference Randy Pobst began his racing career at 19.

You mistake psychology mechanics for determinism. These are probability and likelihood things not absolutes.

neuroscientist here. If your point is that brain can't learn past mid 20's, u r rong.

But its obviously harder.

OP: If you want a chamce, you have to be better than everyone else, because you have an obvious flaw (OLD). You have to really be that good, and this means practicing A LOT.

Get yourself a nice simulator rig and play the shit out of it. Study driving theory, racing adjustments, every last fucking thing. Breath motorsports. Use every second in your life to become a better driver. Don't think in anything else for the next five years. Try to get into amateur racing and take it more seriously than anyone else. Study the track, the weather, the opponents, everything. Be better, be more focused, use up all your chances.

Then and only then you will be able to fail gloriously.