Who do you think is the wealthiest F1 driver?

Merlin5 · 26 Mar 2011 at 23:54

After Schumi of course.

DRZ · 27 Mar 2011 at 00:02

Merlin5 said:
After Schumi of course.

What about putting in your own thoughts?

Anyway, after Schumi, possibly Alonso? Could well be Barichello though as he has had a seat for so long!

arknor · 27 Mar 2011 at 00:18

out of ones still driving? probably fernando as hes on somethingh like 30 mil a year.

barrichello has been around for ages but how much does he really get paid i bet its not a lot and i doubt it ever has been

Tweaker · 27 Mar 2011 at 00:38

Räikkönen was on a huge amount, i think Ferrari only finished paying him off at the end of 2010, i think it was around £32 million, though it might be higher as he was one of the highest paid sportsman in 2009.

Merlin5 · 27 Mar 2011 at 00:47

Alonso has only been with ferrari since last year, but yeah, at £30 million, that would be hard to beat. Button is on £6 million a year with McLaren, and Hamilton must be on similar money.

FrankJH · 27 Mar 2011 at 02:22

Merlin5 said:
Alonso has only been with ferrari since last year, but yeah, at £30 million, that would be hard to beat. Button is on £6 million a year with McLaren, and Hamilton must be on similar money.

laughs - I think Hamilton is on two or three times JB's £6m/season

bank balance I would say Alonso easily (Im sure Renault paid him pretty decently also, not to mention how much he got from McLaren for the single season)

JB's bank balance is probably not great considering the £18m he is meant to have paid Williams for not going back there.

Merlin5 · 27 Mar 2011 at 03:21

FrankJH said:
JB's bank balance is probably not great

He's probably eating hand to mouth and begging on the streets in between races.

Valentino · 27 Mar 2011 at 03:27

Bernie Ecclestone.

ShakenNstirred · 27 Mar 2011 at 04:09

i`d say Eddie Irvine
yes he got a lot less than Schumi while at Ferrari
but he invested it well by all accounts

edit found this
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2010/05/f1-drivers-wealth-its-still-a-good-game-to-be-in/

Duke · 27 Mar 2011 at 08:42

Was going to say Eddie Irvine or David Coulthard as they've invested quite a bit in property and businesses.

Valentino · 27 Mar 2011 at 08:44

But it's clearly Bernie, the only billionaire f1 driver.

FrankJH · 27 Mar 2011 at 13:45

Merlin5 said:
He's probably eating hand to mouth and begging on the streets in between races.

you can take something too far you know

ShakenNstirred said:
edit found this
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2010/05/f1-drivers-wealth-its-still-a-good-game-to-be-in/

Most of that list would have been surpassed by one single season of Shumi at Ferrari lol

Interesting amongst the brits but a bit of a limited view

GravyMonster · 27 Mar 2011 at 17:17

FrankJH said:
laughs - I think Hamilton is on two or three times JB's £6m/season

I don't think McLaren pay Hamilton all that much - relatively, obviously. Maybe around £10m or so, which for a WDC isn't a lot. Most of his money comes from sponsorship and that kind of shenanegans.

IIRC if Hamilton had won the WDC in 2007 he would have been one of the cheapest world champions ever as he was only earning around £500,000 for the season.

arknor · 27 Mar 2011 at 18:04

Valentino said:
But it's clearly Bernie, the only billionaire f1 driver.

schumacher earnt a billion over his career aparently mostly from sponsors i guess.

hamilton is suposed to be on 16million

JUMPURS · 27 Mar 2011 at 19:08

Of the current drivers, I'd be surprised if it was Alonso.

dannyjo22 · 27 Mar 2011 at 19:12

It's Irvine. I've seen this documented before he made so much money on investments and property that even when the likes of Villeneuve was on 16 million a year Irvines worth dwarfed him.

dalin80 · 27 Mar 2011 at 20:34

Hamiltons sponsorship money probably far out strips his pay cheque.

I heard that reebok give him around £12,000,000 a year, but thats purely rumour.

Merlin5 · 27 Mar 2011 at 23:15

dalin80 said:
Hamiltons sponsorship money probably far out strips his pay cheque.

I heard that reebok give him around £12,000,000 a year, but thats purely rumour.

Christ, if that's true, that's incredible. :eek:

I wonder how much TAG watches pays him.

realscot · 28 Mar 2011 at 07:38

I'd imagine their "basic salary" is probably less than half of their annual income. What with sponsors events etc, the figure could easily be twice what we're lead to believe.

GravyMonster · 28 Mar 2011 at 09:23

Merlin5 said:
Christ, if that's true, that's incredible.
I wonder how much TAG watches pays him.

I think he has to wear those as they sponsor McLaren. The guy who own TAG is part owner of McLaren group with Ron Dennis.

realscot said:
I'd imagine their "basic salary" is probably less than half of their annual income. What with sponsors events etc, the figure could easily be twice what we're lead to believe.

And the bonuses they get for scoring championship points.