[F1] Karting Isn't the Only Way Forward

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In 2025, the FIA announced an experimental program.

With four-time champion Max Verstappen bringing the parties together, several companies provided funding and technical support for a global talent search on a massive scale:

A gifted racer would be selected through racing simulators and given all the equipment and funding needed to train, helping him take the wheel of a world-class F1 car.

Applicants had to be between ten and seventeen years old. No restrictions on gender, nationality, or family background.

No matter where you were, what your family was like, or what you looked like, the internet made all of that irrelevant. As long as you could beat hundreds of thousands of other competitors, you would get your chance.

After three months of fierce competition, the winter break ended and the new season began.

The one who emerged victorious was a fifteen-year-old boy from China.

Yao Yuan was born in 2010, around the turn of spring and summer. When the selection began, he had just turned fifteen.

For his birthday, his aunt gave him a racing simulator. He spent the summer becoming the self-proclaimed