Checo Perez earns more than the cost of Marcelo and Gareth Bale combined

The sports world has been busy this weekend as yesterday Real Madrid won its fourteenth UEFA Champions League Cup, and today, Mexican driver Sergio Perez won the Monaco Grand Prix of Formula 1. And the shocking thing is that it was revealed that Checo Perez earns more than the cost of Marcelo and Gareth Bale combined.

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The Mexican driver together with his Red Bull team managed to reach the first place in the race, in which they had one of their toughest rivals the Ferrari team, but despite the setbacks they went through, the team of the energy drink together with their drivers, Perez and Max Verstappen managed to prevail over the other giants of motor racing with authority and were able to take the first prize.

This raises the question: how much money can a Formula 1 driver earn? And the first reference that comes to mind is that of the value of certain footballers, whose transfers can sometimes move gigantic sums of money from one club to another, or from one player to another, without the players involved in these transfers batting an eyelid.

What Checo Perez earns in F1 is more than what Marcelo and Gareth Bale cost

According to information from the international press, Sergio Perez earns 8 million dollars per season, while both Gareth Bale and Marcelo of Real Madrid are valued at just over 3 million dollars each one, due to the fact that the best times for these players are behind them and therefore, they are not as highly valued as they used to be. 

At one point, Brazilian Marcelo had a market value of just over 70 million dollars, while the case of Bale is more dramatic, as the player reached a cost of just over 90 million dollars, which at one time was considered one of the most expensive signings in the history of soccer.

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