Kimi to get €45 million from Ferrari

WOW!

Nice one Kimi. Now only hope he gets a good drive next year and shows Ferrari where their 45m went. OOPS!

 

Perhaps that €20 diff is the Santander amount they were suppose to pay McLaren for Kimi to drive for them.

Carol

 

Wow! Nice job Kimi! You get a WDC And get paid more than any other driver while at Ferrari then after realizing you're on a sinking team you go to a much more healthy team and get paid $65mil to do it...

Kimi's already shown he's brilliant on track but it seems his real brilliance is his off-track decisions. Oh ya, Im sure Kimi's all broke up over this.

 

He has made some serious cash doing what he loves on his terms with the least fuss as he can get away with, respect to him and good luck, he his hardly going to crap team.

 

Alonso goes to the team he has dreamed of driving for, Kimi gets a ****-ton of money and gets to to drive for a team that is showing more and more promise this year as the season goes on. Sounds to me like everybody wins.

 

Let's hope he puts some of it to the good uses that Michael has.
Note to self; Buy shares in Finlandia Vodka Co.

 

Well, perhaps not Ferrari.

 

either way I'm sure Kimi got a lot. But - I'll bet Santander is paying a big $$ amount here:

Ferrari has denied media reports about the impressive terms of Fernando Alonso's new contract.

Some Spanish reports this week suggested that the 28-year-old double World Champion will earn 25m euros per year, which is less than the retainer enjoyed since 2007 by the man he replaces, Kimi Raikkonen.

It has also been reported that in addition to Spaniard Alonso's three-year deal are contracted options for three further years, and that terminating Raikkonen's contract is costing Ferrari a whopping 45m euros, partly paid for by the Spanish sponsor Santander.

"The numbers talked about have absolutely nothing to do with reality," said a report on Ferrari's official website.

"It's easy to write numbers, forgetting that the world has changed recently. At Ferrari a lot of calculating is done and attention is not only paid to the costs of the operational structure, but also as far as the drivers are concerned."

 

Unless Santander is hiding money from the shareholders -very unlikely- they're not paying a single dollar to end Raikkonen's contract.

 

sounds like Kimi is now holding out on Mclaren for more $$ .. and it seems like he suddenly found his voice as I've never known him to speak so much in an interview.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79082

 

This guy is a bad ROI. I'd certainly tie any dealings to him with a performance clause. Unfortunately the guy is a little too rich for that to really matter. No guarantee he'll get the job done.

 

he actually DOES talk. If you watch the thursday previews he normally gives a relative long answer.

 

Someone called KR "brilliant". I'd call him mercurial. Certainly not worth the pay he received. IMO, a complete disappointment. At least he won one WDC for the Scuderia. I guess that's worth a few hundred million. Pay has no relation to performance, apparently.

Good for him for getting this kind of compensation with his on-track results, but the people who've paid him ought to be taken out behind the shed and shot.

CW

 

with a 45mill euro kicker, I would drive for Force India next year!!

 

As shown this season, he's well worth the money. With a well underdeveloped car he's doing pretty good IMO.

Last season the team was mostly behind Massa hence his disappointing season.

 

Except FM has outshown KR, on average, over the last few seasons. Or, if you prefer, if FM didn't out-drive KR, FM drove at least as well for a fraction of the price. The team didn't "abandon" KR, the team's No.1 driver because he was doing so well...

CW

 

Must be good to be him.

 

wise business boy!

 

+1

hope he beats the pants off everyone next year

 

Oh my. Max would like that

 

The team actually never abandoned kimi...they were never in his corner to begin with.
Ferrari put all their money on the wrong "horse" for the wrong reasons...now instead of learning from their mistakes their making the same mistake again with the "new horse". It's amazing that Kimi was able to achieve what he did with so much stacked against him. Kimi's smart to leave.

 

Kimi at Mclaren! The Drunk and the Punk. LOL

 

Jenson hasn't won a race in 7 races...

 

And he is still leading in points for the Championship.