How much money does a driver earn for winning a formula one race?
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There is no prize money in formula one. Drivers are paid a salary and earn money from other deals. Schummacher earns approx. £36,000,000 a year.
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It is really unknown because unlike many sports, NASCAR and it's teams do not release contract information. Recently a couple of lawsuits made a few drivers contracts public information. These contracts gave the driver a base salary, then incentives. I believe it was Kasey Kahne's contract where he got a base of $3 million, and if he won he would get 45% of the the teams winnings, 2-5th he'd get 40%, 6-10 he'd get 30% and anyhting else was 25%. There were other bonuses for winning big races like the Daytona 500 and the Championship. It is widely thought that even on a bad team that if you are signed and scheduled to compete for a full season the least base you will make is $1 million.
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The "special" celebrity ones are the highest earners however, they usually have more money to play with. I have seen something like £9000 on the normal one at the end of the week where all the winners play again
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Of course they get paid, and trust me it is plenty plenty money. They also get bonuses or incentives. For instance I know the saudi arabian team will EACH get 150 000 euros if they qualify to the next round. Most teams get bonuses for scoring goals, not letting in goals, qualifying to further rounds, golden boot winner gets a packet of money. Money rules that tournament!
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Well, if you start in karts at around six or seven and move up through the different formulae such as the Star Mazda Series, Formula Ford, Formula 2000, Formula Atlantic, Formula Three, maybe A1GP and GP2, you might make it to Formula One and the chances are you would be anywhere from 19 to 22 at this stage.\nTeams are usually looking for a driver with a lot of talent and, unless you are really fortunate enough to attract a sponsor, you will have spent a lot of your own or your family's money in those lower formulae. Some teens in competitive karting have budgets in the $25,000 range. \nSponsors are usually looking for someone who can get them exposure for their product.\nThere are Japanese drivers in F1 (not a huge amount of them) because there is a lot of racing in Japan at the lower levels and almost all of the better ones move to England at some stage or other to race in ultra competitive series' such as Formula 2000 and Formula Three, so you are incorrect is suggesting they `have very little racing experience.' Not surprisingly Japanese sponsors often want Japanese drivers with teams they either own or sponsor heavily.\nThere are few black drivers in any form of racing, including karting. Californian Willy T. Ribbs is probably the most successful black open-wheel racer. He moved to England for awhile when he was young and actually raced against Ayrton Senna in a Formula Ford series. He was successful in Formula Atlantic cars, but had only limited success in the CART series. Sadly, he is known for being involved in a fatal accident at the first Vancouver Molson Indy, one that killed a track marshal. I really don't think Willy ever aspired to be an F1 driver.\nThere is a real chance that we will see the first black driver in F1 next year, if Ron Dennis decides to put his protégé, Lewis Hamilton, in one of his McLaren cars.
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Read all about it here.\n\nhttp://www.formula1.com/insight/
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Nothing and no-one has ever been greater than Michael Schumacher's seven Formula 1 world titles. That's why they pay him more than any other sportsperson on the planet.
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Start in kart racing. NOW. Get really, really good. then hope you're noticed. Red Bull has a driver search program. The link is below\n\nKimi Räikkönen only had 23 professional races when he was signed by Peter Sauber.You don't need a lot of experience, you just need to be really, really good.
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If you have several thousand dollars to spare or know a generous sponsor, you can enroll at a driving school such as Jim Russell or the Derek Daly School (I believe Derek sold it to someone else last year). Some racing schools run their own mini racing series and, if you have any talent at all (and a fair chunk of cash) you can then advance to a Formula Ford or Formula 2000 series ... If you are really serious about becoming (an open-wheel) racing driver, then you'll probably have to move to Europe (preferably England) and get involved in the really cut-throat competition young drivers go through.\nBear in mind that there are only 22 Formula One drivers and a handful of test drivers.
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Depends on your question.\nKimi Raikkonen won more races than FA in the 2005 season, and many, including myself, believe him to be the best.\nMichael Schumacher has won an unprecedented seven world driving championships and has shown no signs of losing the edge (his car this year was handicapped by tire rules and their supplier).  He also has by far the most wins of any racing driver for all of time.\nFernando Alonso Diaz is the champion for 2005 but all signs pointed to a heated battle for 2006.  But as the WDC, he does get to wear the #1 on his car for the 2006 season.
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Usually people start out on go karts, then move on to formula 3, become a test driver for one of the F1 teams, and then from there become an F1 driver. \n\nOf course there is more than 1 way to get there. Just depends on whether you get spotted or not.
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The F1 is all money - nothing else - the 'sport' (if you can call it that) is all business and serves only the people who are involved with running the billion-dollar making circus and giant tobacco companies looking for mega markets in Asia (cigarette sales are dwindled in the West; advertising banned). If you really want to know the murkier aspects of F1... read "THE PITS - the real world of Formula-1" written by BEVERLY TURNER.
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By winning special contests that go on during the race or because of advertising and sponsorship dollars. By special contests I mean the ones that award money to the best close call or the worst luck, the person that led the most laps etc. They have quite a few different ones that sponsors dream up to promote their products among the fans.\nBy advertising and sponsorship dollars I meant the ads you see during the race that feature the drivers. They get paid quite a bit of money to promote the products of their sponsors too.
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1 players will earn $27 to 28 million\n  0 players will earn $18 to 27 million\n  2 players will earn $17 to 18 million\n  1 players will earn $16 to 17 million\n  0 players will earn $15 to 16 million\n 18 players will earn $14 to 15 million\n  2 players will earn $13 to 14 million\n 12 players will earn $12 to 13 million\n  1 players will earn $11 to 12 million\n  5 players will earn $10 to 11 million\n  7 players will earn $9 to 10 million\n  8 players will earn $8 to 9 million\n 14 players will earn $7 to 8 million\n 18 players will earn $6 to 7 million\n 36 players will earn $5 to 6 million\n 39 players will earn $4 to 5 million\n 34 players will earn $3 to 4 million\n 41 players will earn $2 to 3 million\n101 players will earn $1 to 2 million\n128 players will earn less than $1 million  [at least $385,277]
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rafa marquez\n\nhe gets payed a lot of money in FC barcelona.....plus he won the champions league, the spanish league, he gets sponsored by nike and pepsi and he also gets payed for every win and tie in the world cup.....he also gets bonusses from FC barcelona and from la seleccion mexico for participating in the world cup......so he makes a lot of moneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey
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Everyone gets paid differently. It all has to do with sponsorships and name recognition. Name recognition and sponsorships comes with winning races.\nI think Carmichael made close to 8 million just in endorsements.
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I think all the current drivers deserve to be in F1. Yuji Ide (Super Aguri) was a bit in over his head, but he's no longer a factor.\nAs for drivers being in F1 because of `personal sponsorship', let's not forget that the two drivers at the top of the standing came into F1 with personal sponsorship. Fernando Alonso brought Telefonica to Minardi and Mercedes paid Eddie Jordan a very large sum of money  for Michael Schumacher's first race.\nBoth of the Midland-Toyota drivers are bringing personal sponsorships to the team and I believe both are doing an adequate job with the equipment they have.\nOver the years there have been drivers in F1 who just didn't belong there and the best example that comes to mind is Philippe Adams from Belgium who started two races with Lotus in 1994; Colin Chapman must have turned over in his grave.