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Poster titled How F1 Teams Make Money with a red Ferrari number 16 car among gold bars and coins, showing prize money first about 147M, sponsorship over 2 billion a year, and F1 revenue of 3.87 billion.

How F1 Teams Make Money: Inside the $4 Billion Money Machine

How F1 teams make money, the prize money split by the Concorde Agreement, why even finishing last pays $60 million, the sponsorship that now dwarfs it, and how F1 became a $4 billion business.

Bhavin Lathia· Aug 6, 2026

Poster titled What F1 Drivers Earn with stacks of gold bars, listing Verstappen 70M, Hamilton 60M, Leclerc 34M and a rookie about 1M, noting none of it counts against the cost cap.

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F1 Driver Salaries Explained: Who Earns What, and Why It's Uncapped

F1 driver salaries explained, from Max Verstappen's $70 million to a rookie's $1 million, why the very best earn so much more than the rest, and why none of it counts against the cost cap.

Bhavin Lathia· Aug 6, 2026