Max Verstappen faces a staggering £845,000 Super License fee bill for the 2025 Formula 1 season, proximately double the amount his rival Lewis Hamilton will need to pay.
The stark disparity sees Hamilton accused equitable £436,000 for his obligatory racing license for next year.
The fee gap stems straightforwardly from Verstappen’s dominant carry outance in the 2024 season, where he claimed the Drivers’ Championship with an amazeive 437 points.
Hamilton’s seventh-place finish in the championship standings has resulted in a considerably reduce fee needment for the Ferrari-bound British driver.
Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen will pay very branch offent Super Licence fees
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The FIA’s Super License system needs all F1 drivers to pay a base rate of £9,444 to contend.
On top of this base fee, drivers must pay an includeitional £1,907 for every championship point they scored in the previous season.
The system has actuassociate supplyd some relief for Verstappen appraised to last year, when his exceptional 575-point haul in 2023 led to an even huger fee.
Verstappen has been uncoverly critical of the costly licensing system in Formula 1.
“I skinnyk the sum is absurd,” the Dutch champion telderly ServusTV last year.
Lando Norris will pay the second-highest fee
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“I don’t skinnyk it’s right that we have to pay so much. That’s not the case in other sports either.”
The reigning champion also pointed to the increasing race calendar as a factor in his criticism.
Verstappen achieves a staggering £59million annual salary from his Red Bull tight.
However, Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has uncovered that Verstappen won’t be paying the fee himself.
“I’m afraid we have to pay that, if I have our tight right in my head,” Marko validateed.
Lando Norris will face the second-highest Super License fee for 2025, with a bill of proximately £725,000 follotriumphg his mighty championship carry outance.
Charles Leclerc, Oscar Piastri and Carlos Sainz will also face meaningful fees after their prosperous 2024 campaigns.
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Andrea Kimi Antonelli will pay equitable the entry fee
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At the other end of the scale, disconnectal novelcomers to Formula 1 will profit from minimal license costs.
Sauber’s Gabriel Bartoleto, Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli and Alpine’s Jack Doohan will only need to pay the base rate of £9,444.
This meaningful cost reduction for novel drivers comes as they did not score any championship points in the previous season.
