Money is not the most important thing when you play a world of F1, but if in addition to winning the title you get a good pinch, well, better than better, he must have thought Max verstappen. The truth is that Formula 1 It is not like other competitions that do have a monetary prize reserved for the champion, since the competition distributes the money to each team based on specific variables at the end of the course, such as the position of each team in Constructors and other bonuses, money that comes out of a good part of the total income of the Formula 1 by televisions and sponsorships. However, no money is budgeted for the champion driver, and that depends exclusively on the contract that each team has negotiated with the driver in question.
That is to say, Max verstappen will earn money for being world champion of F1, but it will be for the bonus that it has stipulated in its contract with all energy drinks, and it will not charge anything from the competition itself.
We already knew that Lewis Hamilton had signed an extra bonus of 4 million additional euros in his contract if this year he won the F1 World Championship, money that he will not finally receive after losing his eighth crown to Verstappen in the last lap of the last Grand Prix. And now, the Dutch portal ‘Quote’, revealed the bonus that the 24-year-old will receive for becoming F1 world champion in 2021.
“Sources that sometimes enter the pits on circuits around the world whisper about an amount not less than 5 million dollars. An amount that does not cause surprised faces in the very closed world of Formula 1,” says the aforementioned media . “Losing the Constructors’ World Cup title causes the team to lose money, but luckily that won’t cause financial problems.”, Add.
How much does Verstappen charge per year?
The aforementioned medium of Netherlands further assures that Max verstappen has an annual salary of between 30 and 35 million euros, with a large majority signed on a fixed salary. But in addition, said portal indicates that Verstappen had signed an extra bonus of 1.5 million dollars for each triumph harvested in his previous contract. What is not known is the bonus that he took this season for each of his 10 wins, since in his current contract this variable was somewhat smaller.
Apart from all this, you have to add the money that you take Verstappen For marketing reasons, through the sponsorships that he wears on his helmet, income that will be greater in the world champion helmet that he will wear next year. According to this Dutch website, the income of Max in a year they could be around 95 million euros.
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