The French Business Book GP assembled a list of salaries that the Formula1 drivers will earn in the 2012 season. Most interesting is perhaps the difference between the Ferrari drivers, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa – the difference alone being 20 million Euros. You can blame (or thank) Banco Santander, corporate sponsor of Ferrari, for this. They said they’d sponsor Ferrari on one condition: The Spaniard Fernando Alonso had to be their main driver from 2010 onwards.
Equal and fair payments can be found at the McLaren, Toro Rosso and Red Bull teams, where both drivers earn the same amount of money throughout the 2012 Formula1 Season. Of course a list such as this is built around estimates and may be off here and there, but I’m fairly sure they’ve done their proper research.
At least one thing can be said – in this competition Fernando Alonso is the World Champion!
| Position | Driver | Team | Earnings |
| 1 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | €30 million |
| 2 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren | €16 million |
| – | Jenson Button | McLaren | €16 million |
| 4 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | €10 million |
| – | Mark Webber | Red Bull | €10 million |
| – | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | €10 million |
| – | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | €10 million |
| 8 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | €8 million |
| 9 | Kimi Raikkonen | Lotus | €5 million |
| 10 | Heikki Kovalainen | Caterham | €4 million |
| 11 | Timo Glock | Marussia | €3 million |
| 12 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber | €1 million |
| – | Romain Grosjean | Lotus | €1 million |
| 14 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India | €500.000 |
| – | Sergio Perez | Sauber | €500.000 |
| – | Vitaly Petrov | Caterham | €500.000 |
| – | Pedro de la Rosa | HRT | €500.000 |
| 18 | Jean-Eric Vergne | Toro Rosso | €400.000 |
| – | Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | €400.000 |
| – | Pastor Maldonado | Williams | €400.000 |
| 21 | Bruno Senna | Williams | €250.000 |
| – | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT | €250.000 |
| 23 | Paul di Resta | Force India | €200.000 |
| 24 | Charles Pic | Marussia | €150.000 |
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