Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari pay rises from €40m in 2027 to €50m by 2030, according to figures published by French outlet Sportune.
The breakdown emerged the same week Ferrari unveiled the extension ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix.
The full structure has the Monegasque on €40m in 2027, €44m in 2028 and €50m in both 2029 and 2030.
Run to the end, the deal is worth €184m across four seasons. The 2027 opener is a step up from the €35m Leclerc reportedly earned under his previous Ferrari contract.
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Those numbers place Leclerc third on the F1 pay ladder for the coming years, behind Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.
Hamilton’s Ferrari base salary in 2026 is reported at $70.5m, and Verstappen’s Red Bull package is put at roughly $76m once bonuses are added.
Leclerc holds the 2029 option
The final two years of the deal invert the usual F1 pecking order. Leclerc controls whether the 2029 season is activated, and Ferrari holds the option for 2030.
Roundtable.io, citing the Sportune report, characterised the arrangement as a power shift toward the driver.
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Ferrari’s official statement, issued days before the Monaco race, spoke only of “the coming seasons” and named no figures.
Team principal Fred Vasseur called the renewal “something very natural for us.”
Leclerc’s line on the deal:
“I couldn’t be happier to continue this journey with Scuderia Ferrari HP. It has always been so much more than just a team to me.”
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268 Grands Prix in red
The commitment reshapes the record book at Maranello. Leclerc sits 26 starts short of Michael Schumacher’s 180-race Ferrari benchmark and is on track to pass it during the 2027 campaign.
Run to the end of the new deal on a 24-race calendar, that trajectory reaches 268 starts in red.
That would carry Leclerc past Hamilton’s 246-race stint at Mercedes, the current benchmark for the longest single-team partnership in Formula 1 history.
Ferrari have not commented on the numbers, and the Sportune breakdown remains reporting rather than an official position from Maranello.
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