Forget all that going through the ranks non sense.. here's what you do: volunteer to be a towel boy for one of the F1 drivers..make sure you can beat him up...
then earn his trust.. do that for a few years, then one day you club him over the head and drown'em to death.. assume his identity and drive live his glamorous life while making crazy fortunes and sleep with European models..
seriously tho, unless you have the combination of extraordinary talent and luck of the 4 leaf clover, it's extremely difficult to be among the elite.
I would think driving school such as the Jim Russel racing school is anyone's best bet .. than slowly move up the ranks. It's like anything else, you need notoriety and famous racing schools like JR's will give you that..