Max Verstappen ahead of Lewis Hamilton in world’s top-earning athletes rich list
But Lewis Hamilton earn🃏ed more than Max Verstappen away from the F1 circuit
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton are the only F1 drivers included in a new rich list.
Forbes’ rank of the 50 highest-earning at𝓡hletes in the world for 2024 has laid bare the income for F1💫’s two biggest stars.
Verstappen is named the 17th biggest-earner of the year, and Hamilton is 21st.
Forbes track every athlet💎es’ income between May 1, 2023, an🍌d May 1, 2024.
The list i🃏ncludes ‘on-field’ earnings - prize money, salary, bonuses - and ‘off-field’ earnings - estimated sponsorship deals, appearance fees, memorabilia and licensing.
Verstappen pocketed $81m in total ($76m was his salary a🔥nd prize money after winning last yeꦍar’s F1 championship).
Hamilton earned a total of $69m ($57m was his salary but, in the past 12 months, bonuses for performanc☂es and results were hard to come by).
Notably, Hamilton earned $12m for sponsorships and other fees unrelated to his on-tr😼ack performance🐽.
Hamilton’s star power is a huge reason that he is able to earn more than doub🍷le the amount of Verstappen aw𒀰ay from the F1 circuit.
17th-placed Verstappen and 21st-💃placed Hamilton are separated in the rich list by NFL star Aaron Rodgers, golfer Rory McIlroy, and another NFL player in Justin Herbert.
No other F1 driv🍰er - or any representativꦇe from motorsport - features on a list which is largely dominated by footballers, golfers and NFL or NBA players.
Next year, it will 🌺be 🍸intriguing to see how Verstappen and Hamilton’s earnings soar.
Verstappen can count on another hefty bonus incomin♎g if he completes a fourth consecutive F1 championship win, as he is expected to do.
Ha♍milton will switch Mercedes for൲ Ferrari next year which will result in a salary increase - and likely also huge sponsorship deals.
The Forbes top 10 earners in 2024 were:
Cristiano Ronaldo ($260) - football
Jon Rahm ($218m) - golf
Lionel Messi ($135) - football
LeBron James ($128.2m) - basketball
Giannis Antetokou ($111m) - basketball
Kylian Mbappe ($110m) - football
Neymar ($108m) - football
Karim Benzema ($106m) - football
Stephen Curry ($102m) - basketball
Lamar Jackson ($100.5m) - American football
James was a sportsꦰ journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
