Max Verstappen, the Formula 1 World Champion (2021), renewed his contract with Red Bull Racing until the end of 2028 and is estimated to earn between 44 and 55 million dollars annually.

The ToroRosso team (today known as AlphaTauri) signed Max Verstappen in 2014, when he was only 16 years old, so at that time it was illegal for him to drive in Belgium.

His debut in the top flight came in March 2015, when he was already 17 years old. However, he still did not have his license.

Verstappen was promoted to the Red Bull team in May 2016, when only four races of that season had been held. Nobody can doubt that it was the right decision, since the Dutchman ended up winning the Spanish GP, his debut race with the Austrian team, and made history by becoming the youngest driver in F1 history to take a victory .

Current Salary F1

$55,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Charles Marc Hervé Perceval Leclerc, better known as Charles Leclerc, is a Monegasque racing driver. He was a member of the Ferrari Drivers Academy until 2018, being champion of the GP3 Series in 2016 and of Formula 2 in 2017.

Scuderia Ferrari announced the signing of Charles Leclerc for 2019 to replace Kimi Räikkönen. During 2019 and 2020, the Monegasque driver shared a team with Sebastian Vettel, two somewhat controversial years among which the two victories, the eight podiums and the five pole positions achieved in his first year dressed in red stand out especially.

Current Salary F1

$34,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Pérez's career began in 2011 with the Sauber team at the Australian GP. He was also part of McLaren and Racing Point (formerly Force India). Last year, he made his Red Bull debut as a teammate of Max Verstappen, whom he helped to become F1 World Champion.

After being crowned in Monaco, "Czech" has three victories in the top category (including the 2020 Sakhir GP and the 2021 Azerbaijan GP) and 19 podiums. One of them was in the 2021 Mexico City GP, a race in which he also made history by being the first Mexican driver to lead, for a few laps, a Grand Prix held in his native country.

Current Salary F1

$14,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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George William Russell, was champion of the GP3 Series in 2017 and of Formula 2 in 2018. From 2019 to 2021 he competed for Williams in Formula 1, now he is a driver for AMG Mercedes and is seriously on the heels of Hamilton as a teammate. Thanks to his professionalism and his excellent driving, race after race, he has scored important points for this team.

In 2016, Russell received one of the biggest phone calls of his career while taking a shower. According to Kym Illman, Gwen Lagrue, who started working as a driver developer for Mercedes, called the Briton so she could sign him to the team.

Russell also maintains a close relationship with Toto Wolff, who is the CEO of the Mercedes F1 team.

Current Salary F1

$18,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Better known as Carlos Sainz Jr. or simply Carlos Sainz, he is a Spanish racing driver. In 2014 he won the Formula Renault 3.5 Series championship and made his Formula 1 debut the following year with Toro Rosso. Since 2021 he has been a driver for Scuderia Ferrari.

Carlos Sainz signed for Scuderia Ferrari in the 2021 season, in which he finished fifth in the Drivers' Championship and starred in his best year in Formula 1.

This year 2022 has been difficult for the F75 single-seater and for its pilots since the technical regulations completely changed the philosophy, which reduces its dependence on the front wing and delegates the generation of aerodynamic load to the flat bottom.

Current Salary F1

$12,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Hamilton is a British motorsport driver, in Formula 1 from 2007 to 2012 he was a driver for the McLaren team, with which he was champion in 2008 and runner-up in 2007.

Starting in 2013, he became a Mercedes driver, becoming champion in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, equaling Michael Schumacher's 7 world titles, and runner-up in 2016 and 2021.

He has managed to win more than 103 Grand Prix victories throughout his Formula 1 career, surpassing the record for victories in the history of the competition in 2020.

This year 2022 has been difficult for the F75 single-seater and for its pilots since the technical regulations completely changed the philosophy, which reduces its dependence on the front wing and delegates the generation of aerodynamic load to the flat bottom.

Current Salary F1

$45,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Lando Norris is a British motorsport driver who also has Belgian nationality. He was European Formula 3 champion in 2017 and FIA Formula 2 runner-up in 2018. Since 2019 he has been a driver for the McLaren Formula 1 team.

Lando stayed with McLaren for a second year in Formula 1. The 2020 season started strongly when he scored his first Formula 1 podium finish at the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix. Five more top-five finishes in 2020 meant Lando finished ninth in the drivers' championship with 97 points and McLaren finished third in the 2020 constructors' championship, the team's best result since 2012.

2021 was another record year for Lando, racking up 4 podium finishes at Imola, Monaco, Austria and Monza, and an overall finish of P6 in the drivers' standings. His second-place finish at Monza helped McLaren take home the only 1-2 result of the season. This impressive year led to Lando signing a new contract, meaning he stays with McLaren until at least 2025.

Current Salary F1

$20,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Esteban Ocon, is a French motorsport driver. He was champion of European Formula 3 and GP3 Series. He made his Formula 1 debut in 2016 with the Manor Racing MRT team. The following year he raced for Force India Racing Point.

After being left without a seat at Racing Point for 2019, the Frenchman became a development and reserve driver for Mercedes. During that year there was speculation that Ocon would be the starting driver in 2020 to replace Valtteri Bottas, but at the end of August of that same year the Mercedes team confirmed the renewal with the Fidlander and Ocon was finally hired by Renault.​

In the first race of the 2020 season, he scored his first points with the team. He finished in the top ten regularly throughout the 17 races, although he was plagued by reliability issues that saw him retire four times. That year, Ocon achieved his first podium in Formula 1, finishing second in the Sakhir Grand Prix. He finished that season in 12th place in the championship. He currently remains with the Renault team today called the Alpine F1 Team.

Current Salary F1

$6,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Fernando Alonso Díaz is a Spanish racing driver. He has won the Formula 1 World Championship twice in 2005 and 2006, the FIA World Endurance Championship once in 2019, the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2018 and 2019, the 24 Hours of Daytona 2019 and the Championship. Karting World Cup in 1996.

Alonso is the sixth driver with the most victories in Formula 1 history with 32 grand prix wins and the sixth driver with the most podiums in total 98 so far. His wins include three at the Malaysian Grand Prix, three at the German Grand Prix, three at the European Grand Prix and three at the Bahrain Grand Prix. In 2017, he is inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame. In 2019 he entered the FIA Hall of Fame again, this time as WEC champion, becoming the first driver in history to be a member of the Hall of Fame twice for belonging to the list of champions of two categories. of the FIA.​​

In his career he has competed for the Minardi, Renault, McLaren, Alpine and Scuderia Ferrari teams, this being his team from 2010 to 2014. He left Ferrari and in 2015 returned to McLaren with his Honda engine. After two years out of F1, in 2021 he returned with the Alpine F1 Team, part of the Renault family, with which he won his 2 championships. From 2023 he will be part of the Aston Martin team, replacing Sebastian Vettel.

Current Salary F1

$18,000,000 de Dolares al año, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Valtteri Viktor Bottas is a Finnish racing driver. He made his Formula 1 debut in 2013 with the Williams team, where he stayed until 2016.

Between 2017 and 2021 he competed for Mercedes, where he obtained a total of 10 victories and his best results in the championship, which are two runners-up in 2019 and 2020, and third in 2017 and 2021. Since 2022 he has been an Alfa Romeo driver.​​

Current Salary F1

$10,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Pierre Gasly is a French racing driver. He championed the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 in 2013 and the GP2 Series in 2016. He made his debut at Toro Rosso in the 2017 Formula 1 season. That year he was also runner-up in the Japanese Super Formula.

In 2018 Pierre Gasly emerged as the leader of the Toro Rosso team in his first full season with the Faenza formation, thanks in large part to his ability to seize the opportunities that came his way during the first half of the season.

The Frenchman moved up to Red Bull in 2019 and had a winning car in just his second full season in Formula 1. However, the Frenchman started off on the wrong foot, having a pre-season crash that weighed down the team on the final day test. Gasly's pace was much lower than that of his teammate Max Verstappen and he rode far behind both the Dutchman and the other riders in the upper area. A clear example was the Austrian GP, where Verstappen won the race and Gasly ended up doubled with the same car. Finally, after the Hungarian GP, due to his lack of rhythm and results, Gasly was demoted to Toro Rosso and his place at Red Bull was taken by Alexander Albon.​​

2020, 2021 and 2022 Pierre Gasly in AlphaTauri after a brief stay at Red Bull in 2019, he was able to consolidate himself in the team as the main driver and although his season was somewhat irregular, he achieved glory in Monza to end a few difficult months . Currently for the year 2023 he signed a contract with Alpine which will be his new team.

Current Salary F1

$6,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Kevin Magnussen is a Danish racing driver. He is the son of retired Formula 1 driver Jan Magnussen. In 2013 he won the Formula Renault 3.5 Series championship and was a member of the McLaren Young Driver Program.

He debuted in Formula 1 in 2014 with the McLaren team with a second place in his first race. He subsequently raced for Renault in 2016. In the 2017 season he joined the Haas F1 Team until 2020. After leaving Formula 1 he competed in endurance racing.​​

In February 2022 he returns to Haas with a multi-year contract.

Current Salary F1

$5,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Is an Australian racing driver. In 2021 he was a member of the Alpine Academy and Alpine reserve driver in 2022.1 In 2023 he is a McLaren driver in Formula 1.2 Between 2019 and 2021 he achieved three titles in a row: Formula Renault Eurocup, Formula 3 and Formula 2 (these two last as a debutant). While in 2017 he was runner-up in the British F4.2

Current Salary F1

$6,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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Daniel Joseph Ricciardo is an Australian racing driver of Italian descent. He was British Formula 3 champion in 2009 and made his Formula 1 debut with HRT in 2011. In 2012 and 2013 he was a Toro Rosso driver before moving to Red Bull in 2014 until 2018. In 2019 and 2020 he was a Renault driver until 2021 that he signed with the McLaren team.

He has achieved eight victories, three pole positions and 32 podiums in Formula 1. In 2014 and 2016 he finished third in the drivers' championship.

In 2023 it will be a year of reflection and time to take new directions, since it will not be in the highest category. By running out of a team, he has made the decision to take that year to return with greater strength by 2024.

Current Salary F1

7,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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He is a German racing driver. From 2010 to 2020 he raced in Formula 1 for Williams, Force India, Sauber, Renault, Racing Point and in 2022 for Aston Martin in the first two races. In 2023 he returned to the category as an official Haas driver.

Current Salary F1

$2,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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He is a Japanese racing driver. In 2018 he won the Japanese Formula 4 Championship and was third in Formula 2 in 2020. Since 2021 he has been racing in Formula 1 with AlphaTauri.

On December 16, 2020, his signing for AlphaTauri was confirmed to play the 2021 season, along with Pierre Gasly. The day before, he played postseason training with the same team, setting the fifth fastest time of the session.

In his debut race, in Bahrain, he scored his first points finishing in ninth position. In the rest of the first half of the year he again scored points at the Azerbaijan, Styrian, British and Hungarian Grands Prix, where he was sixth. In the second half he added twice: the United States and Abu Dhabi. In this, the last of the season, he finished fourth, also being the team's best result all year.

Current Salary F1

$1,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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He is a Chinese racing driver. He was champion of the Asian F3 Championship and third in Formula 2 (both in 2021). In 2022 he is the starting driver for Alfa Romeo in Formula 1.

Before joining the Renault Sport Academy, Zhou was a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy for several years. He joined Ferrari in 2014, when he was still racing karting, 7 and left at the end of 2018. In early 2019, he joined the Renault academy and its Formula 1 team as a development driver. In the middle of that year, Zhou got his first taste of a Formula 1 car, testing in an RS17.

After three years at Renault as a development driver, he was confirmed for the 2022 season as an official driver for the Alfa Romeo team. In his debut race, in Bahrain, he took first point by finishing in tenth place. He scored points again in Canada, and in the GP after that.

Current Salary F1

$2,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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He is a Canadian racing driver. He won the Italian Formula 4 championships in 2015 and European Formula 3 in 2016. He contested the 2017 and 2018 seasons with Williams in Formula 1, in 2019 and 2020 he was a Racing Point driver. He is currently a driver for the Aston Martin F1 Team.

For 2021, Lawrence Stroll's team changed its name to "Aston Martin Formula One Team" after his purchase of a percentage of Aston Martin shares. Four-time champion Sebastian Vettel entered the team to partner Lance Stroll.

Throughout the season, Lance was more consistent than Vettel but scored fewer points. The German scored a podium finish in Azerbaijan, while the Canadian's best result was sixth in Qatar. He finished 13th in the drivers' championship, one place behind his teammate.

Current Salary F1

$3,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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He is a UK-born Thai racing driver. He was runner-up in the GP3 Series in 2016 and third in the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2018. He made his Formula 1 debut in 2019 with Toro Rosso and in the middle of the season he moved to Red Bull Racing, and in 2020 he competed full-time with Red Bull.

After several results that did not give the width to the Austrian team, on December 18, 2020 it was announced that the Mexican driver Sergio Pérez would take his place in 2021, Albon becoming the team's reserve driver.

After spending a year in the DTM, Alexander signed a contract with Williams Racing to play the 2022 season and return to F1.

Current Salary F1

$3,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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He is an American racing driver. He has been champion of the Karting World Championship in 2015. He was a member of the Williams Driver Academy, 1 and the third Williams Racing driver in Formula 1 in 2022. In 2023 he is the team's regular driver alongside Alex Albon.

Current Salary F1

$1,000,000 dollars a year, according to official information on the website SpoTrac

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