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so how much do these guys make? Like Rossi or Hayden?
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Yes... Rossi is exceptional... he earned estimated $28M last year...BIFFERONE said:
He got paid by Gauloises Yamaha $11M just for his salary... then he got a $5.5M bonus for winning his forth straight title... then he get another $8M a year from his main sponsors like AGV, Dainese, Alice, and Kerakoll... his estimated income for 2005 is $24.5M... Rossi clocks in at No. 3 on Sports Illustrated's list of the 20 top-earning non-American athletes in the world. That wad of cash puts him behind only ridiculously rich German Formula One racer Michael Schumacher and British soccer pretty-boy David Beckham. Rossi ranks ahead of Beckham's Real Madrid teammate Ronaldo, tennis' Maria Sharapova, even Yao Ming and Sammy Sosa...
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The other top MotoGP riders probably get like $1M to $4M just their salary...
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Valerossi said:
$17 according to this.....
"The world champion last year (and the year before, and the year before that, and ...) is a young Italian named Valentino Rossi. Rossi is famous for three things:
His incredible skill on a motorcycle;
His outrageous antics - and I do mean antics. He once won a Grand Prix race, then pulled to the side of the track and ran into a portajohn set up for the track workers, and came out dressed as Robin Hood. He doesn't seem to take it quite as seriously as him competitors do;
His general joie de vivre - as opposed to the mechanical seriousness from most professional athletes, he comes across as a guy who just can't wait to wake up tomorrow and go do it some more. The pressure of a $17 million contract must have some effect, but it isn't an obvious one. "
Vale's Initial Contract
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