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Franz @ Apr 13th 2008 1:11PM
Makes me wish I'd pursued karting instead of football and basketball when I was a kid. I think I'm a better driver than athlete anyways... hell, who am I kidding. There's no way my parents would've sprung for a kart plus all the other associated racing costs when sneakers and jerseys were that much cheaper. Damn them...
Mike @ Apr 13th 2008 3:23PM
It's estimated that a karting career from start to pro costs $300k...makes my youth hockey equipment seem like a bargain...
bendi999 @ Apr 13th 2008 4:12PM
For all of the karting series this guy has been in or is in right now, $300,000 over the course of his career isn't even close to what he really had to pay to get to where he is now. I think it would be much closer to a cool million when you include everything like travel expenses, from air fair to Asia, hotel, etc. This is the difference between racing as a sport and everything else. If your family isn’t well off, wealthy or down right rich, your talent will get you no where! It’s too bad that the talent in racing is only selected from a pool of rich kids. When I say rich, this means if your family is somewhere between a $250,000 household income to millions, you fall in the category of not having to worry about creating opportunities to showcase your talent.
Cary @ Apr 13th 2008 5:03PM
@ BENDI999 -1
Wrong. -From Lewis' autobiography and is also quoted on Wikipedia "When supporting his son became problematic Anthony Hamilton took redundancy as an IT Manager and became a contractor - sometimes doing up to three jobs at a time to support his son's career."