Strike! how much does Vettel make?

Question

I heard they're planning on a drivers' strike for silverstone, they're still gonna race but they're gonna do something else in order to protest because of the drivers' license cost.

I was wondering how much does Vettel make and how much would he have to pay? Who could be the lowest payed driver that is still in the points?

Answer 1

The last time they had a strike, it was over the INTRODUCTION of superlicences, in 1982. I think the licence only cost $100 back then.

That strike didn't manage to get the race (at Kyalami)cancelled, but it did make the superlicence clauses less benficial to the teams and more beneficial to the drivers.

All the drivers were "banned for life" on the Friday for refusing to take part in practice, only to be reinstated with a $5000 fine the next day... good old days.

Answer 2

I'm sorry, but i was staggered to read Alonso et al (who must be able to wipe their backsides with £50 notes) whinge about having to pay £100,000 for a superlicence! OK, its a pretty steep rise from what it was (about £1,450) but for gods sake, this is F1! What they use in fuel in a season could keep the UK going for a year. Is the credit crunch hitting the drivers?! FINALLY!

Strike my @rse! Remember the last time there was a boycott, the delaminating Michelin's sending Ralf Schumacher into the walls at Indianpolis?

Money or your life?

Answer 3

Vettel got $165,000 USD just for his 2007 Torro Rosso drives, let alone sponsorship revenue and what he got from being BMWs test driver.

Strike, they only drive a racing car......

Answer 4

The good old trick.

At some point they put a tax here for cell phones.

There were protests that came to nothing because the tax was only one euro a month.

The catch of course is that once the tax is there it works as a sleeper, it's awakened when "needed".

People will always oppose new taxes they're not used to but an increase to an existing one is always easier to pass, most people don't even notice because it barely makes the news.

So the discussion is no longer whether driv ers should pay for the privilege, like the FIA doesn't make bucket loads of money out of them anyway, once the fee was put in place the discussion is how much is too much.

EDIT: Remember, what the drivers get is a piece of the pie.

If they get a smaller piece someone else gets a bigger one.

That someone else almost always gets the biggest piece anyway.

But people always identify with the working man, not his boss, so it always comes down to "the griddy b******s, I make so little they make so much.Pay up and shut up, you're not poor".

I say let the teams pay, it's they who put the drivers on the grid and they've got more money anyway.

Everybody who makes money in F1 does it because of the drivers.

Answer 5

crikey it's not much to pay to have one of the best jobs in the world.  They should count themselves lucky that they aren't stacking shelves at Tesco's for £5 an hour

Answer 6

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

this question was asked about a month or so ago. check the link inside the Q, it makes interesting reading.

Some of the drivers for the smaller teams only get a seat because of sponsors they bring. Not all F1 drivers are paid huge wages. Max and co should have taken that into consideration when they put the super licences up the way they did.