Always nice to dream away with the huge amounts that the crème de la crème annual concerns.
Forbes has the annual list released, in which the 100 highest earning athletes (m/v) in the world to be included. This list covers the salaries and sponsoring, about the year 2016 and in between all of the American sportgeweld and, of course, the largest players are, fortunately, still a few drivers.
There are only five, and the top is none other than Lewis Hamilton! The Brit raked in last year, a total of 46 million USD within which he is on a tenth place overall finish. We have all five of the drivers in the list for a table crammed including the place on the list, the total amount, the salary and sponsor money.
CoureurPositieSalarisSponsorsTotaal
Lewis Hamilton10$ 38 million$ 8 million$ 46 million
Sebastian Vettel14$ 38 million$ 500k$ 38.5 million
Fernando Alonso20$ 34 million$ 2 million$ 36 million
Jimmie Johnson93$ 16.8 million$ 5 million$ 21.8 million
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.100$ 13.4 million$ 8 million$ 21.4 million
Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. by the way NASCAR drivers, but suspect that you had probably already. Furthermore, Cristiano “bathing with Badr” Ronaldo at #1 with a total cost of $ 93 million. Some stats for the geeks (I am also): there are 32 basketball players, 22 honkballers, 15 American footballers, 6 tennis players, 5 golfers and 3 boxers in the list. Maybe a career switch to consider?
The entire list, check here. Our list of salaries (2017) of F1-drivers you find THERE.