F1 v Football & other sports: Salary.

[Milkyway]

With a footballer approaching the first BILLION dollar player... it got me thinking.

F1 Weekend:
22 @ about 6hrs seat time
= 192hrs
( Plus Testing).

Footie: @ 90mins
192hrs, equates to 130 games a year (approx).
Including Leauge, cup, & International matches etc.

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 27th July 15:41

[southendpier]

Milkyway said:

With a footballer approaching the first BILLION dollar player... it got me thinking.

F1: 22 races... about 6hrs seat time
= 192hrs
( Plus Testing).

FB: @ 90mins
= 130 games a year.
( if they played every match)

Including Leauge, cup, & International matches etc.

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 27th July 15:15

130 games? They both train, a lot and will have much of their time spent at the behest of sponsors.

Career length.... Astonishing really. But the best of the best will be paid amounts that we cannot really understand.

I was just listening to a podcast who worked out that Ossie Ardiles at spurs in the 80s was on £40k a year.

[Milkyway]

Apologies.... edited.

GP weekend:
Race: 2hrs (Max)
Quali: 1hr
Practice / Sprint: 3hrs
( I think).

Obviously, busy with a lot of other obligations outside of the car.

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 27th July 15:44

[Ankh87]

You cannot compare F1 to football.

Footballers bring in more money in general considering how popular the sport is globally.

Also not all footballers earn huge amounts of money. Yes they get a lot, especially when they get to the Premier League but you'd be surprise that most footballers in the Premier League are on average £40k a week tops. If you remove the very top earns like Haaland etc and just look at good players say like Rodrigo (Leeds player) then they aren't on above £100k a week.

I would like to add that you generally across the board that until a footballer gets into the best league, they don't really earn massive numbers. It's not like Danny Wilson, playing for Coventry is on £20k a week, it's more like £5k a week if that.

Edited by Ankh87 on Thursday 27th July 15:31

[thegreenhell]

Ankh87 said:

I would like to add that you generally across the board that until a footballer gets into the best league, they don't really earn massive numbers. It's not like Danny Wilson, playing for Coventry is on £20k a week, it's more like £5k a week if that.

Poor things. I'm surprised they can afford to eat enough to be able to run around for 90 minutes a week,

[bigandclever]

Ankh87 said:

Also not all footballers earn huge amounts of money. Yes they get a lot, especially when they get to the Premier League but you'd be surprise that most footballers in the Premier League are on average £40k a week.

Some of the lower paid bods in PL squads this coming season will be on 40k a year.

[SydneyBridge]

An F1 driver is risking his life, at high speed, every time he gets in a car
I know F1 is much safer than it used to be

F1 drivers deserve all they earn

[Evanivitch]

bigandclever said:

Some of the lower paid bods in PL squads this coming season will be on 40k a year.

They'll be youth players training with the firsts before their first professional contract. Even championship average is £4k a week.

[Muzzer79]

I’m not sure if you’re trying to say that F1 drivers are overpaid compared to footballers or vice versa?

A top F1 driver is allegedly on £40m a year. If this were football, that would be reported at £770k per week, which sounds enormous.

But F1 has a lot more travelling, time away from home, danger to oneself, sponsor obligations and, perhaps most crucially, there are only 20 F1 drivers in the world versus probably 3 or 4 times that (if one looks globally) top-league footballers.

[Evanivitch]

SydneyBridge said:

An F1 driver is risking his life, at high speed, every time he gets in a car
I know F1 is much safer than it used to be

F1 drivers deserve all they earn

That's true, and F1 performance is very cut-throat, but footballers are much more prone to career ending/declining injuries from the moment they step on the pitch.

[Evanivitch]

SydneyBridge said:

An F1 driver is risking his life, at high speed, every time he gets in a car
I know F1 is much safer than it used to be

F1 drivers deserve all they earn

That's true, and F1 performance is very cut-throat, but footballers are much more prone to career ending/declining injuries from the moment they step on the pitch.

[Milkyway]

If all goes well, a successful F1 driver could have about a fifteen year career... before going on to other things.

Football... probably not far behind.

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 27th July 15:55

[Ankh87]

thegreenhell said:

Poor things. I'm surprised they can afford to eat enough to be able to run around for 90 minutes a week,

I'm not saying that they aren't getting a lot of money. I'm pointing out that it's not as much as everyone makes it out to be. Don't get me wrong they are paid very well but they have huge bills to pay. They have like health insurance which can be like £30k a year. Sometimes a club will pay it for a player, sometimes they won't. Even car insurance is huge. That's why you see a youth player driving around in a 1.0l Corsa, yeah he's on a good salary but his insurance is like £5k a year.

There's a database which has what they believe is a soccer players salary. Holds some information there. You'll see there roughly how much they earn. Just 2 clubs for example. One that is a Championship club that has rose to the Prem. The other an ex Premier League club that is back in the Premier League.
https://www.spotrac.com/epl/rankings/weekly/luton-...
https://www.spotrac.com/epl/rankings/weekly/burnle...

[bigandclever]

Evanivitch said:

bigandclever said:

Some of the lower paid bods in PL squads this coming season will be on 40k a year.

They'll be youth players training with the firsts before their first professional contract. Even championship average is £4k a week.

To be honest I was just basing it on the numbers from Spotrac.

It can't be too accurate, they've got Rhys Norrington-Davies on £400 a week though other sources have said he's on £6,700.

Edited by bigandclever on Thursday 27th July 16:06

[SydneyBridge]

There are around 20 F1 drivers, plus reserves, it is a lot easier to become a PL footballer

[Milkyway]

As a very rough comparison...

F1 Drivers: (2022).
https://motorsporttickets.com/blog/f1-driver-salar...

Top ten players in the world: (2023)
https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/10-high...

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 27th July 16:33

[Evanivitch]

bigandclever said:

To be honest I was just basing it on the numbers from Spotrac.

It can't be too accurate, they've got Rhys Norrington-Davies on £400 a week though other sources have said he's on £6,700.

Edited by bigandclever on Thursday 27th July 16:06

Professional Footballers Association is a better source.

[vetrof]

SydneyBridge said:

There are around 20 F1 drivers, plus reserves, it is a lot easier to become a PL footballer

How many people are trying to become F1 drivers? A few thousand?
There will be 10s of millions hoping to become PL footballers.

[Milkyway]

Mr Lineker.... still earning more than a lot of the drivers.
( £1.3M)

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 27th July 18:05

[anonymous-user]

Milkyway said:

Mr Lineker.... still earning more than a lot of the drivers.

To be fair to him, he does more work than a lot of the drivers….