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Rossi earns more than the F1 drivers

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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.)

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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 »