With the 2020, F1 season now over we take a look at the winners and losers in the monetary stakes ...
We all know that Lewis Hamilton is a supremo on the track, so it isn't that much of a surprise that he tops the list of highest paid F1 driver, however what is surprising is who follows him!
Here we take a look at every drivers F1 salary ( excluding endorsements and bonuses) as revealed in the 2020 edition of Business Book GP, a financial monitor
Lewis Hamilton, $47 million
Sebastian Vettel, $35 million
Daniel Ricciardo, $20 million
Max Verstappen, $16 million
Valtteri Bottas, $9 million
Charles Leclerc, $9 million
Kimi Raikkonen, $6 million
Carlos Sainz, $4.5 million
Sergio Perez, $4 million
Esteban Ocon, $4 million
Romain Grosjean, $2 million
Kevin Magnussen, $2 million
Alex Albon, $2 million
Lando Norris, $1.5 million
Lance Stroll, $1.5 million
Pierre Gasly, $1 million
Daniil Kvyat, $750,000
George Russell, $750,000
Nicholas Latifi, $750,000
Antonio Giovinazzi, $500,000
It is worth taking into consideration that these figures are pre-covid before Formula 1like the rest of the sporting world was hit with a collapse in revenue which will have have directly impacted on the teams' budgets.