Fernando Alonso, The Highest Salaried F1 Driver

The Scuderia Ferrari driver, Fernando Alonso, received the largest payment by becoming a driver for his team in F1 this season.

According to El Mundo who took the report from the Business Book Grand Prix, Alonso received a payment from Ferrari for 30 million euros a year. These are outside from contracts by other sponsors.

Total amount that Alonso has achieved almost twice than the world champion in 2008, Lewis Hamilton who received 16 million euros from McLaren. Believed, this amount will also be obtained Kimi Raikkonen if his contract was not terminated by
Ferrari.

Alonso’s teammate, Felipe Massa became the third biggest-paying driver with 14 million euros per year. This means that the salary of this Brazilian driver does not achieve half of what Alonso has gotten.

Jenson Button, standing world champion, followed with nine million euros. Button lost much with his England team-mate at McLaren, Hamilton. But, he is still ahead seven-time from F1 world champion, Michael Schumacher, who get 8 million euro.

Mercedes also pays Nico Rosberg with 8 million euros. Slightly larger than the Polish-Renault-driver, Robert Kubica who receives 7.5 million euros.

Interestingly, a Williams’s veteran driver from Brazil, Rubens Barrichello gets 5.5 million euros, this is bigger than Red Bull’s Australian-driver, Mark Webber, (4.2 million euros). Webber is still fortunate because his team mate, Sebastian Vettel only get two million euro.

According to the list, Vettel is paid even less than the Lotus’s driver, Jarno Trulli (3 million euros) is almost the same as his team mate, Heikki Kovalainen.

Timo Glock gets one million euros behind the wheel of the Virgin. That’s bigger 700 thousand euros than Williams rookie, Nico Hulkenberg.

The drivers who are paid under a million euros those are, the Sauber driver: Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi (respectively 500 thousand euros). Vitaly Petrov (Renault), Toro Rosso duo: Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi each paid 400 thousand. Force India duo Adrian Sutil and Lucas di Grassi are paid for 200 thousand euros.

A Meta Compos-driver, Bruno Senna becomes the driver with smallest salaried, 150 thousand euros. Imagine, that’s 200 times smaller than Alonso’s salary.