Formula 1 is a sport that, not only stirs a passion that is difficult to explain for many, but also has a very important economic movement, at the same level as any of the most popular disciplines worldwide. The teams that fight for positioning, the brands that accompany them, the sponsors that get involved, and the drivers, the main protagonists of the story, a billion dollars. Who is the highest paid Formula 1 driver?
Not only do you compete for prestige, fame and victory; it is also a job and, as it could not be otherwise, the best paid of them all is the two-time champion and current king of motorsport: Max Verstappen. The Dutchman, the symbol of Red Bull, is the Formula 1 driver who receives the most money these days with a sum of 55 million dollars per season.
The amount has been enhanced due to the recent renewal with the Austrian team until 2028, this new contract has helped him surpass Lewis Hamilton as the highest paid F1 driver. Who follows him on the podium is, precisely, the seven-time world champion, who was ousted this same year by Verstappen, but had been the most popular and best paid of the twenty drivers for more than five years.
Hamilton, a Mercedes driver, currently earns around $35 million per season and is in second place on the podium. The one who completes the podium in third place is the Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc, a strong Ferrari driver who, despite the fact that from the team itself they assure that they have no preference for anyone, Leclerc wins twice as much as his colleague, Carlos Sainz .
Thinking of those who have completed the podium in the Bahrain Grand Prix that Verstappen won, the second, Sergio “Checo” Perez, teammate of the champion in Red Bull, was placed in sixth position on the list with 10 million dollars, while who came third, Fernando Alonso, of Aston Martin is in the tenth place with just 5 million dollars.
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