Midseason Value-for-Money Ranking of F1 Driver Salaries

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Published: August 10, 2016

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With the Formula One teams off on their summer holidays, it's time for the midseason instalment of our annual driver value-for-money rankings.

By comparing the driver salaries published by Paddock Magazine (h/t F1i.com's Michael Delaney) with the number of points each driver has scored, we can get an idea of who is underperforming and who might be due for a raise or a bump up the grid.

Of course, the details of driver contracts are protected like state secrets, so the figures here are just estimates, but they do provide an interesting point of comparison between drivers.

Equally important to remember is that the number of points scored doesn't also give the full picture of a driver's success (or lack thereof). For example, few would argue that Nico Rosberg is a better driver than Fernando Alonso, yet the German has more than eight times as many points as the Spaniard this year—a function of the relative strengths of their cars.



And some drivers provide extra value to their teams in other ways, like when a larger team pays or provides discounted parts to place one of their drivers at a smaller team (Ferrari's Esteban Gutierrez at Haas, for example).

Also note that Paddock Magazine published the salaries back in January, before the entire grid was confirmed, so numbers are missing for Kevin Magnussen and the two Manor drivers (although £0 might be an accurate figure for Rio Haryanto, who Manor announced will be replaced by Esteban Ocon for the remainder of the season).

For comparative purposes, we assigned Magnussen the same salary as his team-mate, Jolyon Palmer, and Pascal Wehrlein the same as the lowest drivers listed, Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson.

Finally, the salaries listed do not take into account whatever adjustments occurred after the pre-Spanish Grand Prix swap of Daniil Kvyat for Max Verstappen at Red Bull. Verstappen is likely earning s...
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