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>>17707085
>How does one become a racing driver if they haven't driven gocarts since childhood?
you dont
literally the only chance you could have is joining some rally club and be good enough that they sent you to some championships and you win them
which is almost impossible if you havent been carting either way

>>17707085
At this age, you literally cannot be a full onr acing driver.

You could get rich, build a racing company combining engineers and designers, build or modify cars and race them.

depends what you mean by racecar driver
if you mean shit like nascar, f1 etc. then no chance
not sure how it is in other countries, but in my slavic wasteland we have amateur rallies, to which you can enter with basically any car as long as you have a cage in it (although you have to fit in one of the classes), so you dont need a lot of money to compete in them and if you win - other than prize, you will often get some sponsors
you cant really make a living out of that, but its definetly profitable if you are good at it, not sure if there are any chances for wrc if you aim for that tho.
you can also make money on street races, but these are nothing more than illegal drags so fuck that

>>17707085
Gran Turismo GT Academy

>>17709171
They still do that?