What the F?

“Before they got to the pit, Julian removed his SpongeBob sandals, took off his helmet, vomited and cried. Alessandro, who wore only gray and black Nike apparel, repeated over the grunts of go-kart engines what he had said to himself many times before: ‘I’m not here to make friends.'” The two kids are only 11 and 12. Neither is old enough to have a license. But both are years into their training to achieve a longshot dream of being a Formula One driver. It all starts with the increasingly big business of Go Karts. WaPo (Gift Article): The First Step to F1.