Ducati signed Marc Márquez to win races. They did not count on that it would also empty their safe

Marc Márquez carries An impeccable season As for podiums and that means that Ducati has to scratch his pocket more and more to comply with the salary agreements to which he promised with the Pilot de Cervera.

The military ride that Márquez is starring in his first season with Ducati is getting A infarction record being the first pilot to chain three major awards of absolute domain, linking six victories with Sprint and Carrera. Ducati’s accountant is afraid the worst.

A start of the season that breaks molds. Marc Márquez has revolutionized the MotoGP world in its first season with the Ducati team. His domain on the track is not only filling the trophy showcases of the Ducati headquarters in Burgus Panigale, but also leaving the accounts of the Italian team dry.

In just ten major awards, Márquez has already won almost 1.5 million euros Only in salary bonus By victories, and the figure at the end of the season can be vertigo.

His great bet: leave Ducati Honda. Marc Márquez made a risky decision to leave Honda, renouncing one of the highest salaries in the history of motorcycling. Although such and As I said The pilot himself “never entered into details about that aspect because nobody really knows what my salary is in Honda”, different leaks estimated that his salary moved in a fork of between 15 and 18 million euros per season in the Japanese team.

Leaving the Japanese team was not going to be a rose path since, before consolidating its entrance to the Ducati team, the six -time MotoGP world champion had to go to the Gresini team, Ducati’s satellite, before making the final jump. Paolo Ciabatti, sports director of Ducati Cors, He pointed out “Surely, the Gresini team cannot afford to pay a pilot the amount of money to which Marc Márquez was accustomed.” The Catalan pilot did not seem to import the salary cut. He would already adjust accounts with the Italians when he arrived in Ducati.

Although the exact amount of your file is as secret as it was in Honda, The data They point out that Ducati signed a payroll between 12 and 14 million euros per season for the Spanish pilot.

THE KEY: THE BONUS. However, although the base salary agreed by Ducati was not as high as the one he received in Honda, Márquez has managed to get the most out of his contract. The Cervera pilot has been squeezing the Ducati box chaining victories and podiums to go unlocking bonus As if they were the levels of a video game.

In the ten major awards played, Márquez accumulates six victories and nine wins in Sprint races, which leaves him as a leading World Cup. All this translates into an increase of 1.38 million euros only as premiums for victories, and we are only in the middle of the championship.

Motivation to win. Ducati signed with Márquez some really high cousins. According The published by ACEthe Spanish pilot pocketed 150,000 euros for each Sunday race that wins, and another 40,000 euros for each sprint. To that we must add the bonus to finish second on Sunday, which is 80,000 euros, and the one to finish third, which is 40,000 euros, just like winning a sprint.

If Márquez maintains the rhythm in the twelve major awards that remain championship, the progression says that it will end more than three million euros packed as bonus in this section. But there does not end everything.

Márquez will enter an additional three million euros premium if world champion is proclaimed. Thus, at 12 or 14 million euros of annual salary agreed, the additional six million that the pilot has unlocked as bonus by victories and sprints would be added. In the end, Márquez has gone well. Someone brought a tila to the Ducati accountant.

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