{"id":14629,"date":"2011-12-16T07:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14629"},"modified":"2011-12-16T07:01:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:01:26","slug":"webber-overtaken-as-highest-earning-australian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-overtaken-as-highest-earning-australian\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber overtaken as highest earning Australian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Webber has been overtaken as Australia’s highest-earning sportsman.<\/p>\n

Business Review Weekly’s annual analysis of the country’s rich and powerful found that the Red Bull driver made $9 million this year.<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/p>\n

But that was reportedly half a million short of Honda’s 2011 MotoGP champion Casey Stoner, the 26-year-old who – like 35-year-old Webber – is from New South Wales.<\/p>\n

However, both Webber and Stoner have been left in the wheel tracks of Andrew Bogut, whose new Milwaukee Bucks contract saw him collect a cool $13.5 million by playing NBA basketball.<\/p>\n

Motocross rider Chad Reed, meanwhile, reportedly made $8.5m, followed by Tour de France winner Cadel Evans, with $5m in 2011.<\/p>\n

But for the country’s new F1 star Daniel Ricciardo, the road ahead to high earnings is long, as the online WA Today newspaper expects the 22-year-old to make less than $200,000 racing with Toro Rosso next season.<\/p>\n

And until this week, he wasn’t sure he would even have that job.<\/p>\n

“I can honestly say that I didn’t know it (the announcement) was coming and it had been playing on my mind a fair bit,” said Ricciardo.<\/p>\n

“It was a fair bit of a relief actually,” he added.<\/p>\n

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Mark Webber has been overtaken as Australia’s highest-earning sportsman. Business Review Weekly’s annual analysis of the country’s rich and powerful found that the Red Bull driver made $9 million this year. But that was reportedly half a million short of Honda’s 2011 MotoGP champion Casey Stoner, the 26-year-old who – like 35-year-old Webber – is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[3443,3442,3444,5262,5340,3441,165],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14630,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions\/14630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}