Top F1 drivers earn big salaries but can also pocket siඣzable bonuses.

Bonus payments are usually for grand prix victories, or 🤪championships.

They inevitably d𝓡epend upon the size and wealth of the team, and the experience of the driver.

F1 2024 biggest bonuses

Lando Norris pocketed the biggest bonus ꧂payments of last season, acc𝐆ording to .

In additi💮on to his salary of $12m, he received an extra $23m for his outstanding season w𝕴hich ended as the runner-up in the drivers’ championship.

Norris ran Max Verstappen close for the title, winning🔯 four grands prix in th🌌e process.

His teammate Oscar Piastri received the second♍-highest amount of bonuses.

Wi🗹th McLaren winning the constructors’, Piastri picke🐻d up an extra $17m on top of his $5m salary.

Verstappen, restricted in the second half of the year by an underperfor🐠ming car, ꦇmerely took home a $15m bonus.

Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz pocketed 🍸a combined $21m bonus for firing Ferrari to runners-up in the൲ constructors’.

Mercedes’ George Russell earned a🧜n extra $8m after two grand prix wins. Lewis Hamilton received $2m after a sole win at Silverstone.

Sergio Perez, in what is likely his final F1 season, took home $7.5m. His season peaked early on with fꦬour podiums in the first five races before he dramatically fell away.