Thanks to his recent successes in F1, with two consecutive driver championships under his belt and a new exceptional contract with Red Bull binding him to the team until 2028, Verstappen earned $64 million from May 2022 to May 2023, according to the American publication.<\/p>\n
However, the Dutchman is still far behind Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, who dominates the rankings. The footballer from the French national team and Paris Saint-Germain is said to have earned 120 million dollars in the same period, with 20 million coming from off-field income such as sponsorship deals and image rights.<\/p>\n
On the second step of the podium is NFL star Kyler Murray, who earned 70.5 million dollars in the last 12 months. The top 5 is completed by Manchester City striker Erling Haaland ($52 million) and Dallas Mavericks basketball player Luka Doncic ($47.2 million).<\/p>\n
A previous analysis from the prestigious Forbes magazine dated November 2021 ranked Verstappen as the highest-paid Formula 1 driver. In that year, the Dutchman seized this particular crown from Lewis Hamilton, who had been ranked as the highest-paid driver in the sport every year since 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thanks to his World Champion title in 2022, Max Verstappen was the third highest-paid athlete between May 2022 and May 2023, according to Forbes magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":32413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[245,941,1334],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-economie","tag-verstappen","tag-red-bull"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n