The salary and earnings of Max Verstappen, the reigning world champion who is also the highest paid driver in this season’s Formula 1.
How much does Max Verstappen earn? A question that many motorsports enthusiasts will be asking themselves since we are talking about the winner of the last four Formula 1 World Championships aboard Red Bull.
Furthermore, we are talking about a driver of only 27 years old who seems destined to break every Formula 1 record, a sort of predestined four-wheeler who has already entered the elite of Formula 1.
In the 2025 World Championship, the challenge between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton will be renewed, with the English driver fresh from his move to Ferrari.
However, Verstappen and Hamilton are - by a long way - also at the top of another ranking, that of the highest paid drivers in Formula 1, far ahead of all their colleagues.
Let’s see in detail the Max Verstappen salary, taking a look at his net worth which has grown a lot in recent years thanks also to the income from sponsors.
How much does Max Verstappen earn today: salary and contract
Max Verstappen - son of art his father Jos has put together over a hundred Grand Prix - made his debut in Formula 1 in 2015 with the then Toro Rosso, then tying himself already from the 2016 World Championship to Red Bull.
Together with the Austrian team, Verstappen has won the last four world championships, with the symposium that appears to be destined to last at least until 2028 given the renewal of contract signed in 2022.
As for the salary received, according to what is learned online - in Formula 1 the compensations are not disclosed by the teams - Max Verstappen would earn something like 65 million dollars per season from Red Bull.
Max Verstappen’s Net Worth
Max Verstappen’s 2022 contract renewal with Red Bull is one of the longest in F1 history: six years until 2028.
Before the renewal, in 2021 Verstappen would have earned a total of over £30 million from Red Bull: £18 million in salary and over £12 million in bonuses.
Also in terms of earnings, Max Verstappen can also count on several sponsors such as the watch manufacturer TAG Heuer, the Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo, the software house Exact, the beer Heineken, the video game developer EA Sports and the clothing brand G-Star Raw.
According to the Forbes ranking of the athletes who earned the most in 2024, Max Verstappen is in 17th place with 81 million dollars earned during the past year: 76 million from salary and bonuses, while the remaining 5 million are the result of extra-sports income.
Based on all these earnings accumulated during his career, Max Verstappen has been credited with a personal wealth of 210 million dollars, a figure that is however destined to increase further in the coming years.
Max Verstappen: biography and private life
The Verstappen family is a family of drivers and Max could not help but have a passion for engines. Born in Hasselt in 1997, Max Verstappen is the son of two drivers: his father Jos raced for Formula 1, while his mother raced in karting, but there is also a grandfather and some uncles.
Speed is a natural element and a passion cultivated since childhood, which will lead him to compete in Formula 1 at just 17 years old. From that moment on, a series of “firsts”: in 2015 he was the youngest driver to debut in Formula 1 and the youngest driver to score points in the Grand Prix; but also, a few years later, the youngest driver to have obtained first place in a race, winning in Spain.
As for his private life, since 2020 Max Verstappen has been in a relationship with Kelly Piquet, daughter of Nelson, the legendary former Brazilian driver, with the couple now expecting their first child.
Original article published on Money.it Italy. Original title: Quanto guadagna Max Verstappen, il pluricampione di F1
