[Dyno247365]

Originally Posted by SabreKhan

Plus, why go to college if you can make a zillion dollars driving a racecar? The point of going to college is to obtain a skill or some knowledge that makes you more marketable in the real world than a regular high school graduate. If you already have such a skill, why waste time and money on college? After high school, you can self-educate on pretty much anything out there. Also, college will still be there when they're retired from driving if they still want to go. I have a good friend who parleyed that philosophy into a pro baseball career, then a history degree and a teaching job.

You're absolutely right, that's a good thing that adults can go to college long after their high school years.

So if you don't join young, you might as well give up

That's the wrong way to think, because if there's great people around you, your handicap is overshadowed by your motivation and resourcefulness to get better. On speaking of F1, yes learning as a kid and racing through those years is the best way, but did every driver in F1 do that? If not, let's put them in the spotlight for this thread.