Spanish publication El Mundo Deportivo is reporting on the list of salaries to be paid to Formula 1 drivers in 2013. Accordingly, Ferrari and Mercedes seem to have the deepest pockets, paying Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton AU$25.8 million each.
In contrast, triple world champion Sebatian Vettel can only manage to eke $15.5 million from Dietrich Mateschitz’s petty cash tin. While Australians Mark Webber and Daniel Ricciardo reportedly earn $12.9 million and $516,000 respectively.
Indeed, the gap in salaries from the highest to lowest earners is more extreme than the on-track performance gap. Fernando and Lewis each earn 133 times more than the reported salaries of cheapest drivers in pitlane. Amazing!
You can see the full list after the break.
[Source: Fox Sports | Pic: Sahara Force India Formula One Team]
2013 F1 driver salaries
- $25.8m – Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton
- $20.6m – Jenson Button
- $15.5m – Sebastien Vettel
- $14.2m – Nico Rosberg
- $12.9m – Mark Webber
- $7.74m – Felipe Massa
- $3.87m – Kimi Riakkonen
- $1.94m – Sergio Perez
- $1.29m – Romain Grosjean, Pastor Maldonado, Nico Hulkenberg
- $774k – Valtteri Bottas
- $645k – Jules Bianchi, Adrian Sutil
- $516k – Daniel Ricciardo, Jean-Eric Vergne, Paul di Resta
- $258k – Esteban Gutierrez
- $194k – Charles Pic, Giedo van der Garde, Max Chilton
(All figures in Australian dollars)
3 replies on “See how much your favourite F1 driver is paid”
would be interesting to see how much the so-called salaries of the guys down the bottom (and even some of the top guys to be honest) are offset by the sponsorship they bring in…..
Kimi’s salary is quite surprisingly low. Mark’s is quite surprisingly high.
I agree that the list needs to take attached sponsorships into consideration. Alonso would probably count as a pay driver!