Max Verstappen has emerged from the 2025 F1 season as the highest-paid driver despite missing out on a fifth successive world championship.<\/p>\n
The Dutchman ended the year just two points shy of beating Lando Norris to the top of the standings following a tense end to a dramatic season.<\/p>\n
While Verstappen is the highest earner on the grid, his base salary does not surpass that of Lewis Hamilton, who endured a challenging maiden F1 campaign with Ferrari.<\/p>\n
According to Forbes, Hamilton bagged $70 million in salary, which is higher than Verstappen’s – but due to bonuses earned by the Red Bull driver, it places him atop the list.<\/p>\n
Norris places third on the list despite ending the season with the world championship in hand.<\/p>\n
The Briton leads McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri, who like Norris, picked up considerable income through bonuses.<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc in the second Ferrari car rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n
But who else features in the top 10 list? Find out below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has emerged from the 2025 F1 season as the highest-paid driver despite missing out on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-339073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}