In F1 there is another very important feature that mitigates the high salary. You can get killed driving up to 300 kph in a 1200 pound car. Also, few people can drive a car that fast without activating one's sense of self-preservation.Formula 1 has pretty fuck up salaries. The top two guys make like 45 million a year, while the third highest paid drops to 17 million, then a huge drop off to the 4th guy at 4.5 million. Michael Shumacher was making 50 million a year and that was like 10 years ago.
Strange. I drove Formula Ford in the 70s and felt no fear even at 140 mph. My immortality ended, as well as my racing career, when I crashed in 1977 and felt the cold hand of the Grim Reaper when they took me out of the wrecked car.