Who do you think is the wealthiest F1 driver?

Merlin5 · 26 Mar 2011 at 23:54

After Schumi of course.

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.

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.

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.

Merlin5 · 28 Mar 2011 at 12:12

Spunkey said:
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.

And the bonuses they get for scoring championship points.

Is it TAG who does official F1 timings of hoptlap, pitstops, etc, or LG?

Merlin5 · 12 Apr 2011 at 06:39

Coulthard seems to be very rich.

"Coulthard has lived for some time in the tax haven principality of Monaco, and also owns homes in London, Belgium and Switzerland. He owns several luxury hotels in Britain and is a former owner of the Columbus Hotel Monaco, which is located in Monaco's Fontvieille."

Merlin5 · 16 Apr 2011 at 00:57

Spunkey said:
He also still gets £4m a year from Red Bull for being their 'ambassador'.

Ye, that doesn't surprise me. Type david coulthard into youtube and there's nothing but him doing public displays around the world, mostly doughnuts, lots of tyre smoke and lots of very loud revving in a redbull car.