Originally Posted by Jim Nash:
“ but take a wage cut.”
Why? They're paid what the market thinks they're worth, if their team/sponsors didn't think they were worth their salaries, they wouldn't pay it, end of story, many businesspeople get paid far more for doing nothing more dangerous than telling some lackey to move x amount of money from account A to account B. That Beyonce woman made $115 million last year, should someone chuck grenades at her when she's on stage?
Calling the cars loungers is doing their designers a disservice, the cars use less than half the fuel they used to, make 150 more bhp than they did in the early 1990's and on relatively unchanged circuits like Canada are something like 6 seconds a lap faster.
Whether the likes of Senna would have the same success at driving the electronic monsters of 2015 as they did at driving something with three pedals and a stick will never be known but it's an ever evolving sport. Nobody dying in an F1 car between 1986 and 1994 and then nobody until 2015 should be hailed as a success.
Quick edit: According to this link:
http://www.crash.net/f1/news/207581/...arns-most.html Bianchi was on 500000 Euro a year, some footballers with their sponsorship deals earn that in a week.