Driver Strike! Driver Strike! - F1 Teams - Pay Your Drivers

[MrJan]

I find your logic seriously flawed.
We won't even consider the considerable risk of serious injury or death F1 drivers are exposed to at every testing, practice, and race session. While F! cars are designed with driver safety in mind that does not mean all risk has been eliminated.
A driver can still lose all earning potential in the blink of an eye.

It's a risk they choose to take, and which many pay for the privilege of taking...also they are insured for exactly that reason.

Drivers have sponsor and team advertising and promotional obligations they have to meet and like an actor should expect to be paid for that work.

Actors are also overpaid IMO. I also have obligations in my line of work but do not earn millions for it.

There is also the issue of the time an effort drivers must invest to stay in tip-top physical and mental condition.

As must many manual trades.

Unlike most stick and ball sports, racing car drivers have to deal with physical demands for much longer periods of time between rests.

So by that logic a GT driver should earn more than F1?

Then there are the technical knowledge aspects (car and driving) a top driver will have learned over the course of the drivers rise up through the ranks to the highest level of the sport.

Again this is the same as any trade.

Consider too that not all drivers get paid the same. Indeed most F1 drivers get paid a small fraction of what the top drivers are paid by the teams.

Just because x driver is earning say £6 million a year does that make it okay that Y driver is earning £1million?