Rare info on MotoGP rider finances revealed: “There needs to be a minimum sign-on”
Money "isn’t what it used to be" as numbers ar🅷e explaine🐷d

Details🦋 about MotoGP rider pay has been shared, in a rare disclosure of how much money they reall♊y pocket.
Information about the salaries and bonuses of MotoGP riders is extremely scarce.
Yamaha’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo is reportedly the highest-paid on the current grid at €12m per season, while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez supposedl𝓀y walked away fro🌳m Honda’s offer of €25m per season to join Ducati.
But the numbers at the back end of the grid are less clear, and Pramac Yamaha’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller has now spoken about🌠 the need for a minimum sign-on package for rookies.
“It has been a talking point for us, as riders. Marc Marque🎶z has spoken on it. Many guys have spoken༒,” Miller told the Gypsy Tales podcast.
“There needs to be, at least, a minimum sign-on.
“Some of theseꦿ guys are signing on for next to nothing.”
Miller was asked what the lowest sign-up d♔eal might be for a MotoGP🌠 rookie.
“Probably 60,000. I swear to you,” he said.
Miller was talking on an Australian podcast so it seems he means 60,000 Australian dollars - equivalent to approximately £28,000 or $36,000. It was unconfirmed which currency he was discussi♊ng but it still provides an insight into the numbers on offer.
Miller explained how money from elsewhere would boost a rider’s bank bala🐓nce.
🌄“You might make up [the sign-on money]. If you’re signing up as a rookie, you are not guaranteed bonuses,” heღ said.
“But you will probably get, as a top-level Moto2 ꦇrider, 100,000 or 150,000. But your leather deal, your helmet deal, will make up for it. It will be better.
“But it isn’t what it used to be.”
Gon🍒e are the days when MotoGP superstars like Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo were recruited on mega-million-dollar deals.
Miller insists that the ♔dominance of manufacturers and their individual bikes has lowered the market value of the riders themselves.
He claims thꦬat t🌊he money on offer when he started in MotoGP was better.
“When I came in, the solid base salary was around 250,000,”☂ he said.
“But it’s not all ro♕ses. When I came in, there were still guys paying for rides in MotoGP. “We don’t have that now. It’s gone, which is fantastic. Iꦚt’s better.”

Jack Miller: MotoGP “not only a full-time job”
The Pramac rider insisted that the incredible demands of being a MotꦍoGP rider deserve a greater reward.
“It’s not only a full-time 💎job, it’s a life,” he said.
“Every day that you’🦩re not on the bike, you’re busting your arse in the gym, busting your arse training.
“Doing all of these little 1% increment𓃲s to make yourself b🅷etter.
“I believe, if you are risking your longevityꦕ, your body is never going to be the same.
“Don’t get me wrong - it’s a fantastic job and I’d do it for f🐻ree, because I love it. But you are putting on a show for everybody, doing these great things, and you should be paid accordingly.
“People should be able to live a comfortable life.💃 I say that now because I’ve been here for 10 years and I can go home and live comfortably. I have been very fortunate in my job.
“Marc is happy to say his point on it, 🍃and he has been paid well. But he's one of the ones who says it more than me. It’s something that our sport does need to work on. We have spoken to the organisation about it. Whether that falls on deaf ears or not is another thing. But we need to be better♋ for the riders.
“They a🎀re very good for the riders - the safety commission is fantastic, the camaraderie has never𓃲 been better in MotoGP.”
Miller also pointed out how a lifetime of dedication to becoming a motorcycle racer can backfire unless the mon𒊎ey in return is good enough.
He insisted that it can take 15 🔯ಌyears to even reach MotoGP, during which time a budding rider has missed out on other life opportunities.
🦋“You’ve got no schooling to fall back on,” he said. “As an Australian, you move to the other ♏side of the world.
“ꦜSome kids have been over there since they were 13 or 14 years old.
“I happily help however I c🎶an with guida🔯nce, because I know the struggle.
“Some of these people have dedicated everything, and it’s all they know. In the past, it’s all 🎀they needed to know.
“It’s something that th🌌e general a🌠udience needs to know.
“There’s no guarantee that you walk out o𓆉f any weekend. ꦏ22 rounds, you race [every other] weekend.”

James was a sports jo🐽urnalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.