About F1 Salaries
Why Does F1 Salaries Exist?
Driver contracts in Formula 1 are confidential, so most salary figures come from journalists with contacts inside the teams, and different outlets often print different numbers for the same driver. Dan Sweeting started F1 Salaries to show where each of those figures came from and to label how confident we are in it.
Every driver, team, staff member, sponsor, and circuit has a page built the same way, with the headline figures at the top and the sources underneath, which makes a number quick to check and easy to compare with the rest of the grid.
Fans also want to know what team principals, race engineers, and pit crews earn, and what sponsors pay to put their names on the cars, so those pages get the same sourcing and labels as the driver pages.
We also run NBA Salaries, a sister site that tracks all 544 NBA player salaries for 2026-27 in the same way.
What We Cover
Drivers
Salary, bonuses, contract length, net worth, and career earnings for all 22 race drivers and 14 reserves, with a salary graph that runs into future seasons where a deal is signed.
Teams and Staff
Team value, revenue, and driver payroll for all 11 teams, pay for more than 90 team principals, engineers, and strategists, and what pit crews and mechanics earn.
Sponsors, Tracks, and Tickets
What 50 sponsors pay and how long their deals run, guides to 27 circuits, and ticket prices for every race converted to dollars.
How Should Our Figures Be Treated?
Teams and drivers rarely publish contracts, so most figures on F1 Salaries are estimates built from named reporting, team announcements, company filings, and comparable deals.
Each figure carries one of four labels, and the icon beside it shows which. Verified means an official source has published the number, Reported means it comes from credible named reporting, Estimated is our own figure built from the evidence, and Calculated is worked out from other figures on the page. Our methodology explains each one in more detail.
F1 Salaries is independently owned and funded by advertising and Insider+ memberships, and we set every figure ourselves. We research our stats with ChatGPT, cross-reference every figure across sources, and use Claude to turn the checked data into readable copy, as our page on how we use AI explains. If you think a figure is wrong, send us your source and we'll review it.
More About F1 Salaries
Our Methodology
How every salary, contract, net worth, sponsor deal, and ticket price is worked out, and what the four verification labels mean.
How We Use AI
The seven steps behind every page, including where ChatGPT and Claude help and how each figure is checked before it's published.
Who Runs F1 Salaries
Who founded and edits the site, how it's paid for, and why it accepts no affiliate or paid content.
Contact Us
Send a correction, a source, a suggestion, or a comment through the form or by email at dan@f1salaries.com.
About F1 Salaries: FAQs
F1 Salaries is an independent site with no official connection to Formula 1. It's funded by advertising and Insider+ memberships, and we set every figure from our own research into public reporting and company filings. Each page links the sources behind its numbers, so you can read the original report and judge a figure for yourself.
They come from named reporting by F1 journalists, team and sponsor announcements, and company filings. When nothing's been published, we build a figure from comparable deals and label it Estimated. Each page lists its sources under the figures they support, and the icon beside every number shows whether it's Verified, Reported, Estimated, or Calculated.
Driver and team pages are updated through the season as points, results, and contracts change. New signings and sponsor deals go in once they're announced, and each page shows the date it was last updated. Ticket prices carry the date they were checked, because promoters change them as grandstands sell out.
You're welcome to quote or cite any figure on F1 Salaries, as long as you link back to the page you took it from. Please keep the label with the number so readers can see how solid it is. For bulk data, charts, or commercial use, get in touch first and we'll help where we can.
We work with journalists, podcasters, and broadcasters on figures and background for their stories, and we're happy to help with data requests. We don't accept paid or affiliate content, sponsored posts, or guest posts, so the figures on the site stay independent of any commercial interest. Use the contact page to tell us what you're working on.