How today’s MotoGP rider salaries compare to Valentino Rossi’s big-money deals
The legend with seven premier class championships earned sums d☂uring his glory years which 🎶are far in excess of any of today’s riders - or any other rider in history.
Rossi pocketed €30m per year in 2008, 2009 and 2010, according to , at the peak of his pow꧙ers and fame.
In 2012, Rossi was the 20th highღest-earning sportsperson in the world with a total earnin🤡g of $30m.
In 2015, he was named the 14th highest-earning sportsperson over the course of the previous 💯decade, with a total earning of $275m.
That was, and remains, unprecedented territory f💟or a MotoGP rider.
Even when age caught up with him in 2020, one of his worst-ever racing year✅s, Rossi’s earnings totalled €140m - through race prizes, sponsors, earnings from Yamaha, personal merchandise and other bu💯sinesses to which he was connected.
He was paid only €7m by Yamaha inꦆ 2020, a very s💃mall wage by his considerable standards, reflecting his competitiveness at the time. That reduced to €4m in his final year in 2021.
Today Rossi’s com𒁏panies generate a profi💖t of €8m per year.
The highest-earner in Mo♉toGP📖 today is Marc Marquez.
He pockets €12.5m per year from Honda, on a contract which runs until the end of 2024,🎃 report.
But his total annual earnings a𒀰re €40m thanks to 🏅his other sponsorships from major brands.
These were the annual salaries of every MotoGP rider in 2022, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport:
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez - €12.5m
Joan Mir - €6m
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pol Espargaro - €3.5m
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Rins , 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Morbidelli - €3m
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aleix Espargaro - €2m*
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Miguel Oliveira - €625,000
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Takaaki Nakagami, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Brad Binder - €500,000
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enea Bastianini , 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio di Giannantonio - €375,000
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini - €300,000
Darryn Binder, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marco Bezzecchi, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Raul Fernandez, Remy Gardner - €250,000
By contrast, the h🥀ighest-paid in the list of F1 driver salaries is repo💜rtedly Max Verstappen ($55m / £45m).
While Lewis Hamilton is in the process oဣf negotiating a new Mercedes contract which could reportedly be worth £40m per year.
Verstappen and Hamilto⛎n were the only motorsports representatives on the recent list of the 50 highest-paid athletes in the world, by .
The lowest on the list was NFL legend 🌱Tom Brady whose total earnings from May 2022 t🧸o May 2023 were $45.2m, meaning no MotoGP rider earned more than that.
James was a sports journalist a🍌t Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, 🍬to football, to F1.
