How do a person become a F-1 DRIVER?

Answer 1

F-1 drivers normally start young but there are some notable exceptions (see Alain Prost or Takuma Sato). They start with something at the bottom like Go-Karts and then, if they have good results, find sponsors to support them into the higher categories like Formula 3, GP3, GP2. If they aretalentedenough and get good results F-1 teams will going to pick them as their young drivers (nowadays there are some special F-1 tests where each team brings one or two young drivers to test their cars). In the end, as they get moreexperiencedand their results continue to improve they become F-1 drivers. Most of the current F-1 drivers have made it into F-1 as pay-drivers but that's not always the case (see Hamilton). Many are temped to say that to make it into F-1 you need to come from a rich family but this is not true. It is talent that lands you a drive into F-1 because talented drivers get the support of sponsors and even though they are called pay-drivers they don't actually get to pay from their own pocket but rather their sponsors pay their seat in an F-1 car.