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As an interesting tidbit, after his "first" career in F1 went bust, the disenchanted Grosjean promptly decided to quit racing and chase another dream: to become a chef. His family presumably funded him through his karting times and early junior formulae, until 2006 when he was snapped up by Renault Sport Academy. Romain himself wasn't always going to be a racing driver, he only started at 14 and spent some of his karting years part time working at a Geneva bank. His dad is a Swiss lawyer and mom a relatively famous French painter.
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Most prominent has been the Danish company Jack & Jones who supported Kevin's career into car racing and eventually into McLaren Young Driver Programme in 2010 too.Īs also noted above, Grosjean comes from a family with plenty of skiing heritage. Not the wealthiest as far as racing driver daddies in the grid go - but still, the name mustn't have hurt when collecting sponsors. Magnussen is the son of Jan Magnussen, a former F1 driver slash current sportscar driver. Their money finally ran out around 2010, still in karting - but just then, Estebans career was salvaged by Eric Boullier who promptly signed him for Gravity Management. Ocon does not, his dad owned a small garage who invested everything in young Esteban's karting career, eventually ending up selling their house and living off a caravan.
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His dad used to be a racing driver who had some existing connections with Carlos Slim (the owner of Telmex and one of the richest men in the world) who funded Checo as well as many other Latin American drivers from the early 2000's on. Perez comes from a wealthy family, saying he would probably have become a lawyer if not for motor racing.
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Probably his dad's wealth and existing connections with Red Bull didn't hurt him when Carlito stepped up from karting in 2010 and instantly got signed up with their junior team. Sainz jr is the son of Carlos Sainz sr, a double World Rally Champion.
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When he stepped into cars around 2005, Willi Weber (Schumi's manager) took him up and managed him all the way to Williams with some backing from Dekra. There's not that much online on Hulkenberg's father other than that he owned a shipping company and probably funded his career throughout his karting years. With his money and contacts (such as the Jumbo supermarkets), Jos was able to fund Max from karting, all the way to F3 in 2014 where Red Bull snapped him up.Īs noted above Ricciardo had fairly wealthy parents, his dad was the chairman of GR Engineering so they were able to fund young Daniel through the Australian junior formulae and a season in Italian Formula Renault in 2007 - after the season Red Bull snapped him up. Verstappen is obviously the son of Jos Verstappen, a former F1 driver in the late nineties and early noughties. Only Kimi's road builder dad working some additional jobs and taking on loans had been keeping Kimi's karting career going until that. Raikkonen comes from a family of petrol heads who didn't even have an inside lavatory and he, too, would most likely be a car mechanic now, if not for a lucky break with the Robertsons spotting him on his first junior formula season in 1998. The owner of the said track started backing Vettel at a young age, and Red Bull Junior Team signed him around the year 2000, so presumably the Vettel family didn't have to invest quite as much money as most others. Vettel doesn't have a wealthy background either as his dad owned a small carpentry business - but luckily for Sebastian, he was also into motorsport and their home was located nearby the local karting track, so with his contacts he could fund Seb's karting from a very young age. Upon entering junior formulae Bottas got sponsorship from local companies Wihuri, Kemppi, and in 2008 got signed up by a manager team involving Didier Coton, Toto Wolff, and Mika Hakkinen. His mom is an undertaker and Valtteri himself is a qualified car mechanic in Finland, so he probably would be one if not for F1. Anthony took on additional jobs and put everything he could on the effort, until Ron Dennis finally snapped his son up around 1998.īottas is the son of a small cleaning company owner who estimates he spent some 200k euros of his own money on his son's karting career. With Lewis' dad who was working in IT as his main backer early on, the duo pushed through plenty of obstacles early in Lewis' career. Going to label those with "millionaire" families in italics.