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Motorsport salaries & payrolls

Formula 1 driver salaries, constructor wage bills, the MotoGP grid and the NASCAR pay rankings.

SERIES3
DRIVERS TRACKED57

The three series

Formula 1 pays in pounds and MotoGP in dollars, so the two totals below are not on the same scale. Converted to one currency, the Formula 1 grid costs 4.9 times what the MotoGP grid does.

Formula 1 £276,500,000 11 constructors, 22 race seats · highest paid Max Verstappen, £55,300,000 MotoGP $75,665,000 11 teams, 21 riders · highest paid Marc Marquez, $18,000,000 NASCAR $14,000,000 36 drivers ranked · highest paid Denny Hamlin

Highest career earnings

Total earned across every season we hold, converted at $1.33 and €1.17 where the source figure was not in pounds

Lewis Hamilton £538m Fernando Alonso £412m Max Verstappen £278m Sebastian Vettel £255m Kimi Räikkönen £239m Charles Leclerc £135m Lando Norris £92m Valtteri Bottas £78m George Russell £65m Carlos Sainz Jr £62m Marc Marquez £52m Alexander Albon £48m Pierre Gasly £38m Esteban Ocon £36m Lance Stroll £30m Oscar Piastri £21m

Formula 1 and MotoGP are ranked together here, and the gap between them is the point: one rider makes the top sixteen. Marc Marquez has earned £52m in MotoGP, one place behind Carlos Sainz Jr on £62m.

Motorsport prize money

15 editions of 5 events, and all 172 racers they paid

The 2026 Indianapolis 500 paid £23.2m across 33 drivers, and £3.3m of it to the winner, Felix Rosenqvist. The 2025 SuperMotocross points fund paid £3.2m across 44 riders, and Jett Lawrence and Jo Shimoda took the two titles.

Motorsport prize money Indianapolis 500 prize money, every year SuperMotocross World Championship prize money, every year Knoxville Nationals prize money, every year Kings Royal prize money, every year Eldora Million prize money, every year What the 2026 Knoxville Nationals paid What the 2026 Kings Royal paid What the 2026 Indianapolis 500 paid What the 2025 SuperMotocross World Championship paid What the 2025 Knoxville Nationals paid What the 2025 Kings Royal paid What the 2025 Indianapolis 500 paid What the 2024 SuperMotocross World Championship paid What the 2024 Knoxville Nationals paid What the 2024 Kings Royal paid What the 2023 Knoxville Nationals paid What the 2023 Kings Royal paid What the 2023 Eldora Million paid What the 2022 Knoxville Nationals paid What the 2022 Kings Royal paid

Rankings & league tables

Formula 1 Salaries by Team MotoGP Salaries NASCAR Salaries Highest paid sports

Every motorsport driver

57 drivers with a page of their own, A-Z