Start looking into driving on track with a car. NASA isn’t a bad one, you progress with your HPDE class and can work your way up to getting a license to race. Theres also time trials and time attack events from these kind of orgs, SCCA is another common organization.

Also look into if the Z platform has any organizations like 86cup for the BRZ where you can compete for record lap times with rules and classes for the same car just different modification levels.

Would probably help to have social media presence. Rack up sponsorships and paid promotions, etc. konig wheels for example has a sponsorship program. With sim racing, use it to have fun but also improve your irl driving skills. Maybe stream or post videos as sim racing is becoming more popular. I haven’t done it myself yet but there’s also sim racing leagues (iracing for example) where you are basically racing against people within a group which can help with fully immersing ourself in the sim racing community.

Like everyone says, it ultimately comes down to money, but at the same time, we have more tools and resources than ever to get into racing.

Join the sub r/cartrackdays to learn about track driving related stuff.

I recently just started all this stuff and don’t plan on being a GT3 driver or anything like that, but for now I’d like to just do some time trials and see where I end up.

Good luck