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Pay driver. A pay driver is a driver for a professional auto racing team who, instead of being paid by the owner of their car, drives for free and brings with them either personal sponsorship or personal or family funding to finance the team's operations. This may be done to gain on-track experience or to live the lifestyle of a driver in a ...
The United Kingdom is the most represented country, having produced 17 drivers. Five countries have been represented by just one. Estonia became the latest country to be represented by a driver when Paul Aron made his Formula E debut at the 2024 Berlin ePrix driving for the Envision Racing .
The most recent driver to make their Formula One debut is Oliver Bearman, who debuted at the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. [ 18 ] This list includes all drivers who have entered a World Championship race, including participants of the Indianapolis 500 between 1950 and 1960 when it was part of the World Championship (although not being run ...
Formula One and IndyCar are the highest levels of open-wheel racing in the world. ... Reports say F1 driver salaries range from $1 million to Max Verstappen's $45 million base with $25 million in ...
Any proposed cap on the salaries of Formula One drivers should be careful not to hold back the sport's top talent, newly crowned seven-times champion Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday. "I'm not ...
Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing-Honda won the Drivers' Championship for the first time in his career, having claimed 10 race wins across the season. Verstappen became the first-ever driver from the Netherlands, [2] the first Honda-powered driver since Ayrton Senna in 1991, [3] the first Red Bull driver since Sebastian Vettel in 2013 and the first non-Mercedes driver in the turbo-hybrid era ...
This is also the case for free practice-only drivers. Some examples of those numbers are 36 (used by Antonio Giovinazzi in two races), 38 (used by Oliver Bearman in one race), 39 (used by Brendon Hartley in one race), 40 (used by Paul di Resta in one race and Liam Lawson in five), 45 (used by André Lotterer and Nyck de Vries in one race each ...
Charles Leclerc. Charles Marc Hervé Perceval Leclerc[ 2] ( French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ləklɛʁ]; born 16 October 1997) is a Monégasque racing driver, currently racing in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. He won the GP3 Series championship in 2016 and the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2017 . Leclerc made his Formula One debut in 2018 for ...