Formula 1 Heroes

Salary Work Out.

It is very difficult to blog about Formula 1 without attention on two things, the danger drivers face and the salary they receive year on year.

Would you risk your life for £371,000 a year? That was Jules Bianchi’s salary in 2014 according to www.crash.net What price do you put on a drivers life, how do you work it out?

Contracts list out what a driver must do but how do you work out the a monetary assessment for danger and death? I have no idea. Some F1 web sites list driver earnings for 2015; Alonso  £25,850,000, Vettle £20,680,000, Hamilton £18,460,000 and Rosberg £9,971,000. But what about possible injury and health bills.

                    

Health and Wealth - Schumacher

I suspect his family would give all of Michael's purported wealth of well over £300'000,000  to reverse the results of his skiing accident or any race accident that left him in a similar condition for that matter.

His charitable works are numerous which balances out controversial driving incidents. Is he a hero?  I would say so. We will, I hope see him in public again one day. Here is a picture of the Benetton he drove to his first Championship in 1994.

                          

With future work on safety to ensure no more deaths like Jules Bianchi’s we will see our race drivers enjoying life in their years off the track - Just like our very own British retired racing drivers Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill both of whom are my heroes.  

Jemima J. Jones.