Formula 1: Who are the highest paid drivers for the 2019 season?
By Asher Fair
T-13. Lance Stroll – $1,200,000
Racing Point’s Lance Stroll is Formula 1’s 13th highest paid driver for the 2019 season with a salary of $1,200,000, although he is technically tied for 13th place on this list with Rich Energy Haas’ Kevin Magnussen.
Stroll is one of the six drivers who drove in Formula 1 last season but are set to drive for different teams in the 2019 season. He is set to be the lowest paid out of these six drivers.
Stroll’s Formula 1 career began in the 2017 season, and he has driven on a full-time basis ever since. He drove for Williams on a full-time basis in the 2017 and 2018 seasons before making the move to Racing Point for the 2019 season.
Billionaire Canadian investor Lawrence Stroll, Lance’s father, led a consortium to purchase Force India during the 2018 season and then renamed the team Racing Point, so the 19-year-old Stroll is set to drive for his father’s team this year.
In his 41 career Formula 1 starts, the former member of the Ferrari Driver Academy has recorded one podium finish. This podium finish is his third place finish in the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. He earned his career-high finish of 12th in the driver standings in the 2017 season. His average career starting position is 15.4 and his average career finishing position is 13.3.