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Originally Posted by revster
Salary is not a factor in on-track performance.
That's a distraction variable for the press and fans to gnaw on.
Ferrari (and similarly, McLaren) doesn't care which of their drivers win, only that they win.
When the F60 wasn't up to snuff, they played the blame game and suckered people into pointless debates about salaries and commitment.
Clearly, it's still working.
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Then why do certain driver's get paid more? Salary is analogous to skill. If a driver can't win, he doesn't get paid a ton. Alonso, 2x WDC, and Raikkonen, hailed as the next Schumacher, made the most money by a fair margin. Why pay a guy a ton to be second fiddle? Do you think Kovalainen made as much as Hamilton? Do you think Piquet made as much as Alonso? No. Fact of the matter is Raikkonen wasn't up to snuff when compared to his enormous salary. I'm a huge Raikkonen fan, second only to Alonso in my book, but he did lose his form after leaving McLaren in 2005. Even when he won his WDC in 07 I didn't think he was driving on par with his year in 05. He kept going down, whether it was motivational issues or not, and now Ferrari dropped him.