How much do you think a midfield drive in F1 costs?

[ManWithNoName]

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£29.4M. That's just ridiculous.

 

[rayven]

Why would a venezualan fund pommies?

 

[ManWithNoName]

Why would a venezualan fund pommies?

Maldonado...

 

[rayven]

Maldonado...

What teams above or around Williams could of Maldonado possibly made?

The once mighty williams nothing but whores now hey?

 

[Simple Jack]

I'd heard it was 40m USD a season, turns out that was just about spot on.

I'm also pretty sure no other midfield pay driver is anywhere near that amount. As far as I know Maldonado is easily the pay driver that brings the most (FA brings something like 25 mil from Santander).

 

[Sven]

Petroleos de Venezuela makes about $5 billion (US) a year in profits. The reported $40 million (US) that Maldonado brings equates to about 3 or 4 days worth of profit which is chicken feed for the Company.

It's just like Petronas (the Malaysian Petroleum Company) paying Mercedes €30 million (Euros) per season to get their name included in the team name (Mercedes AMG Petronas).

 

[ManWithNoName]

Petroleos de Venezuela makes about $5 billion (US) a year in profits. The reported $40 million (US) that Maldonado brings equates to about 3 or 4 days worth of profit which is chicken feed for the Company.

It's just like Petronas (the Malaysian Petroleum Company) paying Mercedes €30 million (Euros) per season to get their name included in the team name (Mercedes AMG Petronas).

It's still $40M a year for one bloke to drive a (not very) fast car.

 

[rayven]

Whats his wage?