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Very very very VERY good clean hard racing... top effort lads!

This might be more than a hobby...😅😅 Dudes can drive!

Send this to F1, they will copyright strike you lol

Beautiful driving tbf

😮Man this right here is some good racing!

goddamn now thats skill

Ahh yes VIR….. a very underrated race track good driving by all the drivers!

Respect, I have to say in spec you would get good points for that

lil' machine guns

Beautiful

Wow. All 3 of you are going hard. Props

Ooooof that’s tight

some one needs to send this to Max Verstappen, this is what hard but clean racing is about

Verstappen could never

Insane!

Good racing men 💪🏻💪🏻

It is more impressive how they keep their lanes and respect each other position. Really good drivers💪🏼

Now that was a Race!

Can you go flat through the esses in these?

Sim racing it is 😉

Not the whole story - the racing venues are spectacularly profitable, but they refuse to share their income with the people the spectators are coming to see. I think More Perfect Union did a video on it. No shortage of money being made through racing, but the tiny number of people who own a race series/venues/broadcasting rights have been keeping all the money for themselves to the detriment of the sport.

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Are folded in mirrors better for aero?

Well, SimRacing for the win i guess

This was a great break down. WRL has been an amazing experience for me the last 4-5 years. I know its as high as Ill ever go, but it scratches my itch just fine.

There are a lot more "Pro" drivers that you missed. Many WEC, IMSA (all of the prototype drivers, many of the GT categories, Super Formula, Formula 2, and others)

VIR?

Is it that different from traditional sports? On most levels, you have to pay your club a fee to be able to play and be a part of it. Only at the higher level do they get paid. It’s pretty similar with motorsports too, except sometimes the actual professionals are mixed in between the “amateurs”. True, the costs are much, much higher in motorsports than other sports

Early experience is a huge thigh as well, not many parents can afford that.

You're right that there are very very few truly professional race car drivers. I disagree that other sports or activities are different though. I would guess an even lower percentage of basketball or baseball players are professionals than race car drivers. Even in the minor leagues you mention, my impression is most of those guys can only make a living by staying with host families, etc. And just being great at singing will not make you a professional musician.

It's just money. The professionals are good, if they have karting and formula accolades, but money and luck is what gets you there. I have a whole list of current professionals that have finished behind me. But, to say that amateurs are as good as someone like joey hand or scott speed is just not true, you just don't know what to look for. Most amateurs, like misha as an example, make mistakes almost every corner or have fundemental style errors that top national level karters and professional hopefuls, star mazda champions etc, will notice immediately. There's things the average person doesnt even know that are second nature for people who grew up doing it from 5 years old. most amateurs dont even know what fast looks like. Just the truth. You can blame the banning of cigarette and alcohol sponsorships for a lot of the change seen in the early 2000s to now, and it's much worse in the US than Europe, especially in all forms of GT racing. IMSAs a joke, the challnge series are a joke, continental is a joke, VLN is a joke, it's really bad almost across the board. The true talent pool is actually quite small. Pay to Play straight up ruined the sport honestly. Then you have the nepotism, people like graham rahal whose money spent to lap time ratio is abysmal and has never done anything very noteworthy except maybe a skusa 80jr promoto championship? its all bad.

Ok this is sick, VIR + snow + driving on track, not an everyday thing!! Very cool!

Thank you for making this video

Very interesting! I knew racing was expensive but didn't know the different types of ways you could race. What I find very unfortunate with racing is the fact that you can't race on a more casual or recreational level. I mean if you pay big money to race you have to have some level of ambition, imo. Sure you can do trackdays with your own car but that is not the same anyway. I guess some kind of go-kart racing is the closest to racing with little money.

14:15 Some heel and toe.

In DTM for example the "strong overtake" is very common. Passing car lunges the lead car but to make the turn is slow through the apex. Passing driver positions the car in front of the lead car on exit to force the lead car to lose its better energy. Position + energy = lunge.

NLS is another good example of good track etiquette. Drivers that impede someone from a faster start group may be sent to the paddock for a five minute cooling off period.

Even a Lewis or a Max doesn't get traded for millions like star strikers in football.

Being a good singer (or any musician) doesn't mean you'll suddenly get paid enough to earn a living. Like with sports you have to have a lot of determination, the right chances and a bit of luck too.

Franco Colapinto in F1 is the perfect example of that, raw talent, but not enough money

Nah, can't even afford iRacing.

Ok, ok, it's all about the money, I get it. Now, what track is this?

Its changed so much over the last 30 years. Look at the BTCC in the UK. In the late 90s the factorys like Ford , Honda , Nissan , BMW were paying drivers 300k a year to drive for them without the drivers bringing any money . Now the BTCC drivers have to find 500k to pay fot their drives and take 50 or 60k as a wage out of that money. In GT3 racing usually the AM driver will be a rich businessman who will fund the team and car and also pay the Pro driver.

The key is have a business with deep pockets and sponsor yourself 🤣

I'd make a distinction between privateers and amateurs. For some people its their job. They just aren't getting paid. Real amateurs I see more as the guy who still has a 9-5 and goes racing on the weekend. Heck, there are also teams that do it as part of a shop or even youtube channel that I think is fair to classify them differently. They just aren't getting paid for the specific act of driving. Maybe you call it R&D or content creation. The point really is they are able to dedicate that much time to it.

Excellent video. Racing at anything above the very bottom level of any kind is a very expensive hobby. Even the Aston Martin F1 team is basically a race team funded by Lance Stroll's daddy so Lance can be an F1 driver. About 20 or so years ago Bill Elliott noted that NASCAR Cup Series racing teams had become so expensive that if a team won every race of the season the prize money wasn't enough to break even. Sponsor money allows most racing teams to exist.

A good example here is the recent Keanu Reeves news. He is not a "professional racer" now. It's the same as anyone else with a lot of money that wants to pay to race in GR Cup. Racing is a business, and more often than not, the racers are the customers, unlike ball sports where the spectators are the customers.

Grading drivers purely as am / pro is a bit blurry as, as the video states. However to measure skill level you can simply just use the FIA grading system which ranges from Bronze to Platinum. That will also tell you something if they are getting paid to race or not. But in speed and skill, there is a huge difference between a bronze and a silver driver and even bigger when you get up to gold (not to mention Platinum) You need to study the data and race some of these guys to understand the speed that they have.

what track is this?

I even heard of drivers transferring money to their team so that the team can pay them salary during the season.