{"id":479743,"date":"2010-03-27T14:14:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T18:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=41756"},"modified":"2010-03-27T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T18:14:29","slug":"michael-schumacher-is-2010%e2%80%99s-highest-paid-f1-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/479743","title":{"rendered":"Michael Schumacher Is 2010\u2019s Highest Paid F1 Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 453px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/michael-schumacher-is-2010s-highest-paid-f1-driver\/443px-michael_schumacher-im_the_man_cropped\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41757\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/443px-Michael_Schumacher-Im_the_man_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"443px-Michael_Schumacher-I&#039;m_the_man_(cropped)\" width=\"443\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41757\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schumi in his glory years.  Photo: Chris J. Moffett<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not even three years of retirement can impact Michael Schumacher\u2019s ability to negotiate a contract.  The seven time world champion\u2019s retainer for the 2010 season will be $33.48 million dollars, not counting any additional bonuses, winnings or endorsement deals.  Next in line is Fernando Alonso: the two time world champion will be taking home $24.1 million dollars this year.  Rounding out the high salary podium is Lewis Hamilton, who\u2019s putting $21.4 million in his bank this year.  Jenson Button, last year\u2019s world champion, can\u2019t seem to get any respect; his salary as Hamilton\u2019s teammate is a paltry $16.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>There are 19 races on this year\u2019s schedule, 18 if the venue for the Korean Gran Prix isn\u2019t completed in time.  Do the math; Michael Schumacher is earning nearly $1.8 million for every race weekend while poor Jenson Button has to settle for $884,211 per race.  No wonder the guy had to sell his Bugatti Veyron.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/N2Q4yAMdmq9BgBr2SLuCSyPeUq4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/N2Q4yAMdmq9BgBr2SLuCSyPeUq4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/N2Q4yAMdmq9BgBr2SLuCSyPeUq4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/N2Q4yAMdmq9BgBr2SLuCSyPeUq4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schumi in his glory years. Photo: Chris J. Moffett Not even three years of retirement can impact Michael Schumacher\u2019s ability to negotiate a contract. The seven time world champion\u2019s retainer for the 2010 season will be $33.48 million dollars, not counting any additional bonuses, winnings or endorsement deals. Next in line is Fernando Alonso: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}