Ooh, I thought I was in with a chance until they mentioned mental and physical health analysis. I guess I won't get far, seeing as how I'm incredibly unfit and, lets face it, nuts. I spend about three-quarters of my time sitting down and I took so many drugs as a teenager I've only got about three brain cells left.
Damn it! I just spent the best part of two hours filling in the form only for the site to tell me that I have failed to meet the minimum criteria.
The most annoying thing is that it does not tell me which criteria I have failed on??
It's not mandatory and it is open to anyone, but the website says "the V1 officials will use it to assess final applications", whatever that means ?. I guess if they've got a couple of borderline cases for the final 12 they'll have a look at the replays and see who looks like they might have a bit of potential, and not stuff it into the nearest wall at the first corner.
BTW, Lep's the quickest so far, even quicker than DaveWS :eye-poppi
i think you have to that hotlap, and the top 10 will have a test to try irl (i think) and the winner gets the seat of the fbm.... i bet you will win... and then you are gonna be in formula 1 good luck
When the mainstream public get hold of this LFS will go f**king crazy!
I have applied but I had to lie about my age, apparently 26 is to old. I have a feeling that someone from the LFS community is going to get very famous but it won't be me
to become a competitive racing driver, you will require immense amounts of support. IMMENSE AMOUNTS. And this obviously costs immense amounts of money. However, racing drivers reach the zenith of their carreer pretty early. As Viper already pointed out, from an age of around 22 to 25 your reactions will get slower and slower again when they're not constantly challenged, and most drivers reach the end of their carreer around 30. That is, if you really are able to advance into the higher series. So, when V1 employ and support a driver of age 16, they will much more likely succeed in pushing him up into higher and higher series than they will when they hire a driver that is, lets say, 23 years old.
And that is the return of investment factor.
Edit: Scawen, thanks for the shot of the track editor, really nice to see some of the tools you work with every day. Talking about that, what development environment do you use? or is it just notepad and gcc?
damn, how I'd love to get a hand onto this track editor