F1 Gossip: Hamilton, Verstappen & Alonso top earners in 2022

- has revealed its esti🅰mated Formula 1𓆉 driver salaries for 2022.
Unsurpri🌞singly, Hamilton tops the list with an estimated salary of $40 million a year, while Max Verstappen is on roughly $25 million a year. Fernando Alonso completes the top three with $20 million.
- Also according to , F1 will make several major changes to its weekend schedul🌜e for 20ꦯ22.
ไOne is the return of 90-minute Friday practice sess🗹ions - in 2021, they were only 60 minutes.
All grands 🍸prix in 2022 will now take place over three days, rather than four, with media commitments taking place on 𝓡Friday morning ahead of FP1.
- With Ferrari set to unveil its 2022 challenger on February 17, has described it as an “aggre♓ssive project” - similar to 2017 and 2018 when it was able to challenge Lewis H♉amilton and Mercedes for the majority of the season.
- George Russell has complet🥃ed his first offici💃al day as a Mercedes F1 driver.
“💮But no in terms of the results, obviously. The whole team and myself, we were hoping for more. I think we got hurt quite badly by the regulation changes as the team had a great car [in 2020] but not [in 2021], so we did what we could.”
- Alonso is confident he will be ‘100%’ ahead of the new season after underg🐽oing j🎶aw surgery. ()

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