Quebec teen kart driver dreams of F1 future [Video]

He stepped onto a dirt bike not long after he started walking. He began racing on motocross tracks before kindergarten, and he got behind the wheel of a race kart before his double digits.

Now a teenager, Alexis Baillargon says he has one goal in mind.

“I want to be an F1 driver,” said the 13-year-old from L’Épiphanie, Que.

Alexis’s father, Mathieu, raced dirtbikes and ATVs, and brought his son to a race when he was two years old.

He says that he noticed his son liked the race, so he bought him a toddler-sized dirtbike with training wheels.

Alexis took to it immediately.

“It was looking good, so I said, ‘maybe you should race,'” said Mathieu.

Alexis Ballargeon was winning motorcross races by the time he was four years old. (Mathieu Baillargeon)

At four years old, Alexis was racing and winning motocross events.

“So I was, wow, OK, we’re going to do the all …