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Alonso, World Champion … Salary

Alonso For sure Alonso would rather change his pay for any of the other rivals in exchange for the third time crowned world champion in Formula 1. Unfortunately for him it could not do or will, but as you know that nobody’s bitter sweet, you have to settle for being the highest paid driver on the grid. That, plus his five victories in his first year in red Ferrari.

Second in this ranking by Business Book Lewis Hamilton stands GP, which Alonso almost double in salary. The McLaren driver and former team mate Spaniard takes 16 million euros per season for the 30 Spanish.

Definitely this ranking confirms that Real and Barca are the Formula 1 Ferrari and McLaren. Both teams have their driver pairing of the four best paid of the grid: Massa is third with 14 million despite its discreet season while Button in his first year in the Woking based team entered 9. Read the rest of this entry »

Alonso’s strength

A second part of the championship very sound really great and has allowed the Spaniard to go around the Formula 1 World

Brazil and Abu Dhabi, two Formula 1 races that are consecutive and technically seem matched to the characteristics of the Ferrari and Red Bull, sentencing. Predictions are open, although there are five drivers still remain possibilities, the fight appears to center and between Alonso and Webber, who are solely dependent on themselves.

Fernando Alonso has a first-ball match at Interlagos, as it would sentence her third title if he wins the race and the Australian is fifth, but it also depends on yourself and that despite not being able to be champion in Brazil if it would be in Abu Dhabi if he can win both remaining races.

One wonders now if Red Bull will be decided finally by tipping in Australia or maintain parity policy that has led him into the ropes despite having the best car. There is much talk of whether a circuit is favorable to the characteristics of a car or the other, but the last reference we have is daunting: Red Bull won last year in Brazil and Abu Dhabi.

The contribution of teammates can also be decisive. A good and for evil. While Red Bull nobody dares to tell me to do squire Vettel while Webber’s 14 points with 50 in play and being the ‘darling’ of the team, Ferrari is not openly to point out that Massa will have to take a Alonso cable. However, since the controversy Hockenheim overtaking maneuver, which sued the Scuderia team for giving orders, Felipe has been cleared and has not benefited or even at one point the race for the title of Asturias. And in Brazil, where he has gone from hero to villain, will suffer. Read the rest of this entry »

Button:”I hope to return to the fight”

The Englishman, Jenson Button,  who could only manage eighth in a circuit where Lewis Hamilton left his partner, acknowledged that the race at the Hungaroring was ‘too long’ for the problems that had to overcome, but finally took the points.

‘I could rate and looking at the classification, and the closeness that is, it is clear that every point helps. And if you do not have a good Saturday, I learned that you have to keep trying, any success may be important, ‘he said in a statement to its Web site that collects Europa Press.

So, you know that four points’ does not seem much ‘, but emphasizes that it is’ only 14 of the championship leader. ” ‘Everything is still in play. We must work to narrow differences and I know the whole team is working hard for it, but I hope to return to the fight sooner rather than later, “he said. Read the rest of this entry »

Rossi earns more than the F1 drivers

Rossi

The magazine Sports Illustrated has published its annual list of athletes with higher incomes in the world. Valentino Rossi is the athlete with sport’s highest-paid motor world, with total revenues of 26 million euros.

Rossi is listed as the seventh athlete with more earnings in 2010, ahead of F1 drivers like Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari ex.

Italian revenues are as follows: 14 million euro from his contract with Yamaha factory team, which expires this 2010 and the remaining 12 million of its technical partners (Dainese, AGV) and personal (Fastweb, Nutella, Monster Energy.)

Pedrosa and Lorenzo, light years away
Italian rider revenues tripled following motorcycle rider in the hierarchy, the 2007 MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner, who receives EUR 5 million in his last years with Ducati, while Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa are still light years away from Italian, but this World Cup could begin to redress the balance, especially for the pilot’s Balearic Islands. Read the rest of this entry »