Formula 1: Who are the highest paid drivers for the 2019 season?
By Asher Fair
T-9. Sergio Perez – $3,500,000
Racing Point’s Sergio Perez is Formula 1’s ninth highest paid driver for the 2019 season with a salary of $3,500,000, although he is technically tied for ninth place on this list with another driver.
Like Rich Energy Haas teammates Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean, Perez is one of the eight drivers who are set to return to the teams for which they drove in the 2018 season in the 2019 season.
Perez’s Formula 1 career began at the beginning of the 2011 season, and he has driven on a full-time basis ever since, although he did miss two races in the 2011 season and another race in the 2014 season.
The 29-year-old Mexican drove for Sauber in the 2011 and 2012 seasons before driving for McLaren in the 2013 season. He then made the move to Force India ahead of the 2014 season, and he has driven for the team, which are now named Racing Point, ever since.
In his 155 career Formula 1 starts, Perez has recorded eight podium finishes, of which two are second place finishes and eighth are third place finishes. He recorded his career-high finishes of second in the 2012 Malaysian Grand Prix and the 2012 Italian Grand Prix.
Perez earned his career-high finishes of seventh place in the driver standings in the 2016 and 2017 seasons. His average career starting position is 11.1 and his average career finishing position is 10.3.