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

Bonus payments are usually for grand prix victorie👍s, or championships.

They inevitably dep💧end upon the size and wealth of the team, and 💙the experience of the driver.

F1 2024 biggest bonuses

Lando Norris pocketed the bigg💝est bonus payments of last season, according to .

In addition to his salary of $12m, he received an extra $23m for his outstanding season which ended as the runner-up in the drivers’ champion🐲ship.

Norris ran Max ⭕Verstappen close for the title, winnin꧒g four grands prix in the process.

His teammate Os🎃car Piastri ღreceived the second-highest amount of bonuses.

With McLaren win♕ning the constructors’, Piastri picked up an extra🥀 $17m on top of his $5m salary.

Verstappen, restricted in the second half of the year by an unde൲rperforming car, merely took home a $15m bon𓄧us.

Ferrari duo Charl෴es Leclerc and Carlos Sainz pocketed a combined $21m bonus for firing Ferrari to runners-up in the const♏ructors’.

Mercedes’ Geo🔯rge Russell earned an 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 four podiuꦓms in the first five races before he dramatically fell away.