This is about the amount of funding you need for all your gear and to cover costs for one racing season. As an unpaid amateur. Then you need another $150,000 for the second racing season. As an unpaid amateur.
I will be blunt. No way you can ever be a MotoGP racer. You don't have the funding and are too old. ALL the MotoGP racers started riding and WINNING before they were teenagers.
Read about Casey Stoner. Mr. Stoner was equally blessed with immense talent and incredibly supportive parents. The entire family moved from Queensland, Australia to England so Casey could turn pro at age 14. How did this family financially make this move?
My advise, keep riding and enjoying the pleasures of two wheels. No MotoGP or any high level racing will be in your future.
Start racing at a very early age. Start winning at an early age. Become pro at an early age. Continue winning as a pro. Then if you are good enough, you will have earned a seat on a MotoGP bike. Read up on Casey Stoner. "Between his very first race win at the age of nine and the age of fourteen, Stoner won 41 dirt and long track titles and 70 state titles." Also to become a MotoGP racer, one must have lots of money. Buckets and buckets of money. Racing is a very expensive sport and the racing expenses come out of your pocket until you are good enough to start winning and attract the attention of sponsors. Most kids don't have access to the money for a racing campaign.
The top 50 riders in the world who race at the high end of their choosen class, MotoGP / Moto2 / 125 , World Superbike / Sport etc, started RACING (not riding) at the age of 4 or 5 years old.
Only in recent years has one rider who started as late as his teens, has gone on to to any good.
If you are already on the racing scene, winning almost every race you enter, and have won multiple championships, then you might be able to move up to world level, but nobody starts on a MotoGP bike. Teams dont gamble on unknowns.
You will have to EARN your place in a team, ( unless you have @ €20 - €25 Million per year to buy your own team ) normally by racing in the WSS class, then WSB teams, and even then you still might not be picked by the MotoGP teams.
If you have raced all your life and are aged 12 & 14, then you could try and enter The Red Bull Rookies Cup, ran by Randy Mamola, Alberto Puig & Peter Clifford to name a few. This is the best way to start.
The world of MotoGP is not a job like so many dreamers on this Yahoo site seem to think. You dont just get out of bed one morning as a 20-30 year old man & think
" Today, I think I'll race a MotoGP bike ".
The riders you see racing at the weekends on TV have worked their entire lives to be as good they are. Some have moved across half the world as teenager's with their parents to fund their racing life's. They have EARNED their place.
If you were going to ride a MotoGP bike, the world would know your name by now. The world is full off people who WANT to be a world superstar like Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner, Troy Bayliss, Ben Spies, etc, but the truth is, we will never be.
Keep watching and support the sport, from your armchair or better still from the race circuit itself, but as for racing in MotoGP, you might as well try and become a pilot on the Space Shuttle for NASA after only been flown as a passanger on a twin prop plane. Once.
Saying that, it might be cheaper to become an astronout then MotoGP rider.
I fear you, like so many who have asked this question before, are living in a little dream world. Sorry to have woken you.
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I find cheese before bed time works for me.
or other milk products.
peace and quiet, a dark room with a comfortable matteress and a soft pillow, all help.
I beat Rossi last night for the 4th time this year.
and you should see what the Brolly girls are not wearing.
As I have answered before.
How much money do you have?
Do you have access to about $200,000 USD?
This is about the amount of funding you need for all your gear and to cover costs for one racing season. As an unpaid amateur. Then you need another $150,000 for the second racing season. As an unpaid amateur.
I will be blunt. No way you can ever be a MotoGP racer. You don't have the funding and are too old. ALL the MotoGP racers started riding and WINNING before they were teenagers.
Read about Casey Stoner. Mr. Stoner was equally blessed with immense talent and incredibly supportive parents. The entire family moved from Queensland, Australia to England so Casey could turn pro at age 14. How did this family financially make this move?
My advise, keep riding and enjoying the pleasures of two wheels. No MotoGP or any high level racing will be in your future.
Good Luck
Start racing at a very early age. Start winning at an early age. Become pro at an early age. Continue winning as a pro. Then if you are good enough, you will have earned a seat on a MotoGP bike. Read up on Casey Stoner. "Between his very first race win at the age of nine and the age of fourteen, Stoner won 41 dirt and long track titles and 70 state titles." Also to become a MotoGP racer, one must have lots of money. Buckets and buckets of money. Racing is a very expensive sport and the racing expenses come out of your pocket until you are good enough to start winning and attract the attention of sponsors. Most kids don't have access to the money for a racing campaign.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you cant.
The top 50 riders in the world who race at the high end of their choosen class, MotoGP / Moto2 / 125 , World Superbike / Sport etc, started RACING (not riding) at the age of 4 or 5 years old.
Only in recent years has one rider who started as late as his teens, has gone on to to any good.
If you are already on the racing scene, winning almost every race you enter, and have won multiple championships, then you might be able to move up to world level, but nobody starts on a MotoGP bike. Teams dont gamble on unknowns.
You will have to EARN your place in a team, ( unless you have @ €20 - €25 Million per year to buy your own team ) normally by racing in the WSS class, then WSB teams, and even then you still might not be picked by the MotoGP teams.
If you have raced all your life and are aged 12 & 14, then you could try and enter The Red Bull Rookies Cup, ran by Randy Mamola, Alberto Puig & Peter Clifford to name a few. This is the best way to start.
The world of MotoGP is not a job like so many dreamers on this Yahoo site seem to think. You dont just get out of bed one morning as a 20-30 year old man & think
" Today, I think I'll race a MotoGP bike ".
The riders you see racing at the weekends on TV have worked their entire lives to be as good they are. Some have moved across half the world as teenager's with their parents to fund their racing life's. They have EARNED their place.
If you were going to ride a MotoGP bike, the world would know your name by now. The world is full off people who WANT to be a world superstar like Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner, Troy Bayliss, Ben Spies, etc, but the truth is, we will never be.
Keep watching and support the sport, from your armchair or better still from the race circuit itself, but as for racing in MotoGP, you might as well try and become a pilot on the Space Shuttle for NASA after only been flown as a passanger on a twin prop plane. Once.
Saying that, it might be cheaper to become an astronout then MotoGP rider.
I fear you, like so many who have asked this question before, are living in a little dream world. Sorry to have woken you.
Good luck.
Become a member of the group.
try to compete all big racing events in your area and beat the best..
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArNVF...
im not sure, but i think you should look, for competitions and races. =P