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[StrongTurd]

Max Mosley, president of world motorsport governing body the FIA, recently urged teams to find ways to reduce costs.
"Formula One is becoming unsustainable," said Mosley in July.
"The major manufacturers are currently employing up to 1,000 people to put two cars on the grid. This is clearly unacceptable at a time when all these companies are facing tough market conditions."

No sh*t, Sherlock! For starters, it is almost vulgar that the drivers earn such obscene amounts of money for performing what is essentially entertainment business. It ranks right up there with Hollywood stars and musicians.

While F1 drivers' salaries are kept secret, here's a breakdown of the top 10 guys' pay for 2007:

No. 1: Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, $51 million U.S.
No. 2: Ralf Schumacher, Toyota, $25 million.
No. 3: Fernando Alonso, reigning world champion, McLaren, $22 million.
No. 4: Jenson Button, Honda, $18 million.
No. 5: Rubens Barrichello, Honda, $12 million.
No. 6: Jarno Trulli, Toyota, $10 million.
No. 7: Felipe Massa, Ferrari, $8 million.
No. 8: Giancarlo Fisichella, Renault, $7 million.
No. 9: Mark Webber, Red Bull, $5 million.
No. 10. Takuma Sato, Super Aguri, $4.5 million.

Bear in mind that those numbers do not include the many endorsements that these guys have. That number can easily be doubled if you add that to their salaries.

But let's just work on their base salary: $51 million works out to ~ $140K PER DAY. That's around R1.4 mil in our numbers. I'm sorry but that is just ridiculous. It's not like these guys perform any real useful function in society apart from keeping TV viewers entertained.

There's no doubt that in a couple of years' time Formula 1 will look radically different from today if no solution is found to the current world financial crisis.

 

[Guest 20221009]

No. 2: Ralf Schumacher, Toyota, $25 million.

for what??

Yeah, its sad. But hey its no use for the to bleed this much. I love F1 but, wow. the cost are incredible.

F1 has to pull it together..cos the A1 will never amount to anything IMO

 

[Ou grote]

So about 900 people per team may lose their jobs then?
1000 people WTF? How many people work at NASA?

 

[D4N]

Blame it on their poor race performance.

 

[JK8]

I find it strange that Honda bailed out first...
Why not the other uselss teams? Are they surviving?

Honda wastes to much money on robotics and "chair pants" imo, leave that and carry on with F1.

 

[StrongTurd]

I find it strange that Honda bailed out first...
Why not the other uselss teams? Are they surviving?

Honda wastes to much money on robotics and "chair pants" imo, leave that and carry on with F1.

On the contrary. Robotics have got unlimited potential to revolutionise almost every field of science and engineering. Formula 1, on the other hand, is basically just a game. Granted, there is some technology transfer from F1 to road cars but this pales into insignificance against the possible future application of robotics.