Formula 1 talk.

[Inthehighdesert]

Take it for what it’s worth. Not sure a mil up to start is not compensated well. I’d bet just being an F1 driver on even the low side gets them 2-3 times there salary off the track. I’ve never understood why so many give two shxts what others make or how they spend it. Some of them are genuinely decent people and do all kinds of things for others out of the limelight. And then there’s the others, which it is what it is. I do think it’s hilarious at times who the sponsors hire to push what product.

https://motorsporttickets.com/blog/f1-driver-salaries-how-much-formula-1-drivers-earn/

I just said the low end of drivers and team principles aren't very well compensated.

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[sk47]

If there was no sponsorships there would be F1. Or any sport for that matter.

Hello; I am going to figure he meant to say there would not be F1 without sponsorships. Not sure if I can recall a time when ticket sales at the gate was the major way sports made money. I do recall when there was a minor league baseball team in Middlesboro KY. My grandfather ran a concession stand. I walked around selling stuff from a tray. Had one of those little change devices on my belt. I was 11 or 12.
Pretty sure gate receipts was all the money.
I seem to have imagined that early in such racing F1 was a gentleman's sport of a sort. Nothing like it is today.

On to Jeff Gordon. Never did like him as a driver and lately not as an announcer. I was an Earnhart SR fan during his time. Before him it was Fearless Freddy Lorenzen. While I did not like Richard Petty early in his career, I did come to admire him. saw him race at dirt track in TN. A driveshaft or some such part came off a car and went thru his windshield. Did not hit him so he kept on racing. would not happen today.

 

[Vlad Soare]

If there was no sponsorships there would be F1. Or any sport for that matter.

Oh yes, there would be. And there was. Most of the sports we love used to be much, much better and honest and likeable and relatable back in the days when money wasn't their utmost goal, and when sportsmen and sportswomen were normal people, with day jobs, who just happened to have a passion and to work hard for it in their spare time, rather than filthy rich TV superstars living in a parallel world. Money has ruined most of the mainstream sports.

If you really have such an issue with it just do not buy the products they are advertising.

Nah. I choose my products based on what they do for me, not on slogans or public image.

And you better check every single product in your home and I absolutely guarantee someone in there is sponsored by an inexcusable prostitute.

I have nothing against advertising. If some poor part-time actor can make extra money by promoting a product, so be it. Good for them. Somebody has to do it.
I only find it inexcusable when you do it simply for greed (or possibly addiction, as Randy points out). In other words, when you aren't doing it as a job in the proper sense of the word, but as a quick and easy means to stuff extra money in some already overfilled pockets.

I’ve never understood why so many give two shxts what others make or how they spend it.

I don't. They can earn as much as they want for all I care. I'm not even saying they don't deserve it. They certainly do.
All I have a problem with is when they then resort to cheap, lowly tricks to make a few extra bucks, just because enough is never enough for them.
Being one of the best-paid football players of all time, and then grinning at me on a billboard to say, "please buy this shampoo, because I will become a tiny bit richer if you do", is disgraceful.

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