How RICH are the 2025 F1 Driver's Families??

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  @harry8051 · 1 year ago

  Not watched this yet but I'm guessing lance strolls story of a young boy with a financially struggling family coming up through the ranks to eventually be one of the greatest drivers in the history of the sport is going to be really inspiring.

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  @JackBetts55 · 1 year ago

  I raced go karts at the same time George was racing and actually raced against him a few times in my first year. The "caravan" in question was a circa £300k motorhome big enough to store his kart and all the equipment in. I have enormous respect for George because he was and is an extremely talented driver but his dad sure wasn't short on cash!

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  @budgetgitarr5351 · 1 year ago

  Obligatory "now do a F1 drivers parents companies logos as tracks" video

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  @Soli11 · 1 year ago

  Magnussen is hard to judge. He actually grew up with his mum while Jan was racing, and they had him when they were both teenagers. He grew up in council housing, and moved around often, and was definitely not well off by any stretch of the imagination. In his book, he says it was tough for him mum because she struggled to afford simple pleasures like cheese, while Jan could afford to buy Kevin like the new PlayStation and stuff like that once he started becoming successful. Jan&apos;s prime was actually while Kevin was already a teenager and professional racing driver himself. <br><br>But Jan himself did not become rich before the 00s, and he was straight up poor until he made it to a seat in F1. Kevin has said that for the first 4 years of his life, he barely talked to his dad because Jan lived in England at the time because of his career, and none of them could afford international phone calls.<br><br>So Kevin really is a tale of two worlds.

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  @tomijota621 · 1 year ago

  Sainz is old money, shouldve been higher. Grandfather was politican and Carlos Sr invested a lot of money

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  @hanibordonada1439 · 1 year ago

  Zhou is in the Stroll tier. Most of their family assets are just divided between his father and uncles but nevertheless his father is the head of the company LLC in Shanghai. His dad literally made a karting track for him (by international standards), and also named most of his holdings and investment companies after his name. It’s hard to pinpoint because they also have holdings outside of china. But still, multiple companies each worth more than $100m in and out of china puts him comfortably in the stroll tier :)

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  @alvabeatmusic · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m from the town Alonso is from, and he is indeed from a working class family. It&apos;s a very typical northern region where once people saw his talent they propped him up , but his family has always been very modest.<br><br>The best part is even now he&apos;s worth millions and millions, you can go down to his kart track when there&apos;s no F1 and he will be racing the Karts or playing Padel with his friends in the nearby community centre.

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  @ibrahimmoinhaque569 · 1 year ago

  I would love to be this middle class described here

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  @herbertkraft7379 · 1 year ago

  The duality of Aston Martin lol

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  @leena9360 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Maybe I can fill in some of the gaps for Yuki. His dad Nobuaki worked in an insurance-related field and his mom Minako was a lab tech affiliated with a university. His family weren&apos;t struggling, you can tell by how Yuki attended an English kindergarten which is typically quite expensive in Japan. But it should be noted he didn&apos;t grow up in an expensive place like Tokyo, more of a normal &nbsp;city and he went to public schools. He&apos;s also mentioned recently in Taiwan that his karting put a financial strain on his family and his small size helped somewhat because his family didn&apos;t have to buy new equipment for him as often. If Honda had not selected him for the Honda Formula Dream Project, he likely would have only had a racing career in Japan or had to quit.

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  @manbok21 · 1 year ago

  You overlooked Leclercs mother side family being founders of the Novares Group making Billions.

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  @kollanata.620 · 1 year ago

  Albon did mention in the interview that after the arrest of his mom, he had to find another source of backing to continue racing. The reason why he races under the Thai flag is because the backing he found was from a sponsorship program of a Thai company (ThaiBev) that was trying to promote Thais into international motorsport. He was half Thai so he took on that opportunity.

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