£20k

Sure inflation but I have that in my bank, I could go to 40k for my sons karting if I Thought he could get to F1. 2019 should have been my sons first year in karts, but with that budget we could compete for a year but we would not be competitive, I spoke to the right people and our budget was fun but no results budget.

We took an old kart to a track anyway, the circuit where leclerc and bianchi grew up on so this was the path to F1 and my kid had the skills of fastest all time kids rental kart lap at a local track.

But dang the other kids had crazy set ups. First up they had team trucks, They also had Multiple spare engines (over 2000euros each) And laptops to gather telemetry on braking etc.

I was blown away and we went home because wtf karting. We had no chance. He does cycle racing now.