Lewis Hamilton has expressed concerns that it has almost become unaffordable today for the entry categories of automotive/motorsport to become mostly unaffordable.
The seven-time world champion is also concerned about children skipping school for sports:
"It's gotten incredibly expensive, even karting. I don't know exactly how much a season costs in the lowest categories, but I've heard that you have to pay at least three times as much as when I started racing. If McLaren hadn't supported me before and if I hadn't agreed with Mercedes, I would never have been able to achieve such a career. I'm very concerned about how the costs are increasing.
And there is also a lot of talk about young karting drivers not going to school. Parents are betting everything on one card and the boys are constantly training and racing. Most of them will not get into Formula 1 and they would really need to have knowledge in civilian life that they could turn to. It would be necessary to regulate this, for example, tying the license to academic results. I think that would be a solution, because what is now is not good,” Hamilton said.
