Formula 1: Who are the highest paid drivers for the 2019 season?
By Asher Fair
How much money are the 20 Formula 1 drivers set to earn in the 2019 season? Who are the sport’s highest paid and lowest paid drivers?
The start of the 21-race 2019 Formula 1 season is just around the corner, as the season-opener, the Australian Grand Prix, is scheduled to take place on Sunday, March 17 at Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne, Australia.
A total of 20 drivers are set to drive for the sport’s 10 teams once again this season, with two drivers driving for each team. Of the sport’s 20 drivers, eight are set to return to the teams for which they drove in the 2018 season.
Of the other 12 drivers, six drove for different teams in the 2018 season whereas the other six did not compete in Formula 1 at all in the 2018 season. Three of these six drivers have never competed in Formula 1 before.
The driver lineups for two of the sport’s 10 teams stayed the same from the 2018 season to the 2019 season while four of the other eight teams retained one of their two drivers from the 2018 season and replaced another. The other four teams completely overhauled their driver lineups from the 2018 season to the 2019 season.
With the offseason between the 2018 and 2019 seasons nearly complete, let’s have a look at how much money each of the sport’s 20 drivers are set to make in the 2019 season.
Here are the driver salaries for all 20 of the drivers who are set to compete full-time in the 2019 season.
NOTE: All money amounts are expressed in U.S. dollars ($).