F1 salaries 2022: Who is the highest paid F1 driver?
Your full round-up of F1 salaries across the driver line-up – how much are the biggest contracts worth?
Business is booming for Formula 1 at the moment. Wider audiences are engaging with the sport, TV ratings are soaring and general interest in the 2022 season is sky-high.
F1 finally appears to have cracked the US market with races lined up in Austin, Miami and, from 2023, a street circuit track through the heart of Las Vegas.
Smash-hit documentary series Formula 1: Drive to Survive has played a key role in bringing greater attendances to races, greater audiences watching on TV and, ultimately, greater revenue being generated.
That means drivers are earning more money than ever from Formula 1, with two drivers reportedly earning $40 million or more in terms of annual salary. And that's before sponsorship deals!
Teams generally prefer to keep their driver salaries private and don't confirm specific figures, but approximations have been made for the grid in 2022.
The salaries listed below are estimates, based on a variety of sources, but we will update this piece if fresh information is confirmed surrounding each driver's annual pay packet.
RadioTimes.com brings you the full round-up of estimated F1 salaries for 2022.
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F1 salaries 2022
Estimated figures based on reports.
- Max Verstappen (Red Bull) – $43 million (until 2028)
- Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) – $40 million (until 2023)
- Fernando Alonso (Alpine) – $20 million (until 2022)
- Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin) – $15 million (until 2022)
- Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren) – $15 million (until 2023)
- Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) – $12 million (until 2024)
- Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) – $10 million (until 2022)
- Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo) – $10 million (until 2025)
- Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) – $10 million (rolling)
- Sergio Perez (Red Bull) – $8 million (until 2022)
- George Russell (Mercedes) – $5 million (until 2023)
- Lando Norris (McLaren) – $5 million (until 2025)
- Esteban Ocon (Alpine) – $5 million (until 2024)
- Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) – $5 million (until 2023)
- Alex Albon (Williams) – $2 million (until 2022)
- Zhou Guanyu (Alfa Romeo) – $1 million (until 2022)
- Mick Schumacher (Haas) – $1 million (until 2022)
- Nikita Mazepin (Haas) – $1 million (until 2022)
- Nicholas Latifi (Williams) – $1 million (until 2022)
- Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri) – $0.75 million (until 2022)
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