The ROADSTER! road to being a Formula 1 racing car driver!

Fancy being the next Lando Norris or Max Verstappen? Roadster! shows you the path to getting started!

Karting (from age 6 upwards!)

Karting is a most exhilarating activity and the perfect way for kids to get started in motorsport! (The fastest Karts can reach speeds of 100mph! )

Karts starting at Bambino size for 6 – 8 year olds, then Cadets for 8 – 12, Mini from 11 to 14, Juniors from 13 – 16 and seniors from the year of the 16th birthday onwards.

Junior Saloon Car Championship (age 14-17)

The Junior Saloon Car Championship provides motorsport for young adults between 14 and 17 years with exciting close racing at a low cost.

Too young but fancy a go?

The Junior Saloon Car Championship (JSCC) offers "Young Ones" events which focus on training children to become race car drivers.

Children aged between 9 and 13 are given PROFESSIONAL instruction on how to drive a road car before being given the opportunity to drive a specially adapted JSCC race car around a REAL race circuit!

Championship drivers are on hand to help and to drive the youngster's around the circuit at high speed!

And it doesn't matter if you've never driven a car before either! Children do not need experience to take part!

Formula 4 (from age 15 upwards)

The first step for aspiring young drivers making the transition from karting into single seaters - F4 is the premier UK single-seater series for those who want to progress their motor racing career ambitions. The new Tatuus F4-T-421 car is used in F4 (see back cover!)

GB4

A low-cost alternative to Formula 4 launched in September 2021. The Tatuus F4-T014 car is currently used by all competitors, and operated by teams or the competitors themselves.

GB3

The GB3 Championship is a single seater motorsport series in the United Kingdom. Aimed at young racing drivers moving up from FIA Formula 4 championships or Karting, the series uses the Tatuus MSV-022 car - a car which is much more powerful car than Formula 4 cars with enhanced performance and safety features.

Formula 3

The official third rung of the Road to F1 ladder. F3 is an entry point for young and ambitious drivers to take part in junior motor racing!

Formula 3 cars have a top speed of 300 km/h up to +/- 2.6 G of acceleration and can do 0 – 100 km/h in 3.1 seconds!

Formula 2

More intense than F3 and the only junior Formula in the world which can get close to the performance levels of Formula 1, the F2 championship is the ultimate training ground for Formula 1. Racing on F1 weekends, F2 provides drivers with the opportunity to showcase their talents in front of F1 teams, competing on some of the most challenging and renowned circuits in the world.

Formula 2 cars have a maximum speed of 335 km/h, upto +/- 3.9 G of acceleration, and can accelerate from 0 - 100 km/h in just 2.90 seconds!

Formula 1

The biggest, most prestigious, and fastest version of Formula racing. Cars are big, fast and powerful, and the drivers are highly skilled.

F1 has 20 drivers per race from 10 separate racing teams. The F1 race car is capable of race speeds in the range of 370km/h, only take 2.6 seconds to achieve 100km/h!

(This article was originally included in Roadster! Issue 1, our pilot idea!)