The 2024 season of Formula 1, the highest category of motor sports, is just around the corner and this Saturday, March 2, the first Grand Prix of the campaign It will take place in Bahrain and it should be noted that this new season will be the longest in the history of F1.
The preseason was made up of 3 full days of testing at the Sakhir circuit where the first times of each and every one of the drivers have been seen. behind the wheel of the new cars for this new season, and it has been possible to have a slightly clearer picture of what this season will be like and see if Red Bull Racing is capable of becoming world champion again in the constructors’ category and also pilots.
Verstappen is the favorite in every sense
Max Verstappen starts with an advantage to once again obtain a new title at the controls of the RB20, which has the same determining characteristics of the Austrian team’s cars that preceded it.. The truth is that the rivalry and competition for this new year looks much less distant than in previous editions and it is a fact that this will make each race more exciting than the other.
Ferrari is the main team that has the objective of surprising and snatching the championship from both Verstappen and Red Bull Racing by all possible means.so much so that the Spanish driver Carlos Sainz, who will be competing in his last year defending the colors of the Italian team, was the one who set the best time among all the drivers in the official tests of 2024.
We must also have our sights set on Mercedes with the help of Lewis Hamilton who will also drive said team for the last time since by 2025 will land at Ferrari, McLaren who, after having renewed the contract of Englishman Lando Norris and having completed the 2023 season in style, are betting on being the revelation team of this year.
What is the salary of F1 drivers in 2024?
In a year in which the contracts of many of the drivers that make up the Formula 1 driver grid end, the one who earns the most money is Verstappen. According to information released by the website RacingNews365.com which, with estimates based on conversations with various sources within the paddock and the teams, published what could be an approximate of the earnings of the fastest men in the world behind a steering wheel
Red Bull Racing would be paying the three-time world champion a total of $55 million dollars, without bonus: The Dutchman has a contract valid until 2028. This is ten more than the 45 that Hamilton earns at Mercedes, where he was going to be until 2025.
However, with Lewis leaving for Ferrari, his income will surely rise to almost 100 million per year (including bonuses). This would also have the effect that his future teammate, Charles Leclerc, would see his income rise: currently, and until 2028, he is earning a total of $34 million at the Scuderia.
Lando Norris earns $20 million dollars at McLaren, where he will theoretically be until 2025, but with his contract renewal this would change. The same course in which the relationship of George Russell, who earns 18, with Mercedes expires. The Englishman gets exactly the same as the two-time world champion, the Asturian Fernando Alonso at Aston Martin, with his contract coming to an end in 2024. Like that of the Mexican Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez, 14 million, in Red Bull.
Spaniard Carlos Sainz says goodbye to Ferrari at the end of the 2024 season and will have to look for a new team sooner rather than later. He does it for $12 million dollars. Valtteri Bottas, in the last year of his contract at Sauber, leaves 10 million in his pocket. With 2024 again as the deadline, Daniel Ricciardo, who returned to Formula 1 last year in a surprising and also quite pleasant way, wins seven in the Visa Cash team. Meanwhile, the two drivers of the Alpine team, Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly, share a salary, six million, and an end of commitment, 2024.
Australian driver Oscar Piastri also earns a total of 6 million at McLaren, where he has a signed agreement until 2026. Kevin Magnussen, has a contract until the end of the 2024 campaign, is in five at Haas, and Alexander Albon, another who must resolve his future in 2024, receives three million from Williams. Alonso’s Aston Martin teammate, Lance Stroll, matches those three million dollars.
At two million, Nico Hulkenberg remains at Haas and the Chinese driver Guanyu Zhou at Sauber, with both contract ending in 2024. Those who receive the least money from their teams are the Japanese Yuki Tsunoda and the American Logan Sargeant, to whom Visa Cash and Williams, respectively, give one million dollars.
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