The 2025 F1 world championship will begin in a few weeks with the presentation of the single-seaters, to follow in February. Let’s hope for a season as exciting as the second part of the 2024 financial year, with several Grand Prix winners and a tougher fight for the title between drivers and teams. Quadruple world champion, Max Verstappen is no longer at the top of the ranking of highest salaries. The Dutchman is ahead of Lewis Hamilton and his new Ferrari contract.
Verstappen’s remuneration at Red Bull Racing has pushed new standards and this is how Lewis Hamilton’s contract at Ferrari puts the seven-time world champion at the top of the table. The figures reported below are those of our partner, Business Book GP, which exclusively reveals the salary scale before the release of the next volume of the ultimate guide to F1, at the start of the season.
Room for young pilots and salary cuts
This 2025 season is placed under the sign of youth: Liam Lawson with Red Bull Racing, to replace Sergio Perez, Kimi Antonelli at Mercedes AMG, for the wheel left vacant by Lewis Hamilton, Oliver Bearman recruited by Haas in place of Kevin Magnussen , Jack Doohan who takes over from Esteban Ocon for Alpine and Gabriel Bortoleno at Sauber/Audi, to replace Guanyu Zhou.
High salaries are thus replaced by young pilots. For information, Perez had signed an agreement worth 15 million euros per season during his contract extension with Red Bull Racing (currently being terminated), Zhou received 3 million at Sauber and Esteban Ocon, 9 million salary at Alpine, last year. If experience is more expensive, young people remain more measured in terms of remuneration, which exposes them to enormous differences in the ranking.
Good news for the Blues, there will be three French people on the starting grid in 2025. After Pierre Gasly extended his adventure with Alpine and Esteban Ocon signed with Haas, Isack Hadjar in turn joined Racing Bulls (ex Visa Cash RB App), for the rookie’s first season in Formula 1.
F1 driver salaries in 2025
Lewis Hamilton (Scuderia Ferrari) = 80 M€
Max Verstappen (Oracle Red Bull Racing Honda) = 72 M€
Fernando Alonso (Aramco Aston Martin Mercedes) = 30 M€
Lando Norris (McLaren Racing Mercedes) = 30 M€
Charles Leclerc (Scuderia Ferrari) = 26 M€
George Russell (Mercedes AMG Petronas) = 12 M€
Carlos Sainz (Williams Racing Mercedes) = 10 M€
Pierre Gasly (Alpine F1) = 10 M€
Nico Hulkenberg (Stake F1 Sauber Ferrari) = 8 M€
Alex Albon (Williams Racing Mercedes) = 8 M€
Lance Stroll (Aramco Aston Martin Mercedes) = 8 M€
Liam Lawson (Oracle Red Bull Racing Honda) = 6,5 M€
Oscar Piastri ( McLaren Racing Mercedes) = 6 M€
Esteban Ocon (Haas F1 Ferrari) = 6 M€
Yuki Tsunoda (Racing Bulls Honda) = 6 M€
Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes AMG Petronas) = 3 M€
Oliver Bearman (Haas F1 Ferrari) = 3 M€
Jack Doohan (Alpine F1) = 1,2 M€
Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls Honda) = 1.2 M€
Gabriel Bortoleno (Stake Sauber Ferrari) = 1,2 M€
