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To some degree you have already missed the boat, this isn't the 1970s or 1980s anymore. For things like F1 the reality is that you need to be winning in go karts by 7, 8, 9 and a go kart world champion by 12 or 13, racing single seaters by 14 or 15 and in a development program with a Formula 1 team by 16 and you need to be winning all along the way to get into Formula 1 by 18 or 19. And your billionaire father needs to be writing checks along the way.
Here is your problem, money. Lets say you go to racing school for a few thousand dollars, well, then what do you? Back to work to try to save up for your next thing which could be years down the road as you have to live and support yourself. Motor sport is hideously expensive with few returns and few commercial opportunities available for anything but the people at the top.
I know of two young drivers your age that their family with some supporters managed to fund them a five figure sum and they went and ran some racing school type formula races and won. Yeah they won some races, that was nice, maybe they have some talent but since they blew their financial wad, they cannot afford the next step up the ladder, so it's really wasted money as far as return on investment goes. They would have been better off investing that $50K in a business that might make money, or an education that leads to a job that makes money or in stocks or similar investment.
If you do not have total extreme talent or lots of endless amounts of money, don't waste your time. Instead what you do is go to college, get a good degree in a field that can make a lot of money. Get out there build a business or become wealthy in some other way and then at 40 you can race whatever the hell you want, perhaps even take a tax deduction for marketing expenses for your racing and go out and have a good time.
The thing is with things like soccer, anyone can get a soccer ball and kick it around and if you are good enough, move up the ladder, maybe someday be able to play pro. Motor sport is nothing like that at all, it requires massive sums of money and that never ends.
If you really think you have it and are just totally insistent on it, my recommendation to you is this: save up the thousands to go to a proper open wheel formula school. There are always tons of dreamers that turn up to these schools thinking how easy it is to drive a race car and then going through the school, the reality sets in that is nowhere near as comfortable or fun as they thought and that their talent is lacking. Racing school will shake you out just how good you might be and how much further you want to take it.
Last thing I will tell you is this, don't destroy your own finances or future over it. Lots of drives and racing dads that did so and it impacts them for a long time. Debt is no fun to pay off.
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