Zoom Just under $900,000 a week for Fernando Alonso or $2.6 million per Grand Prix.

Fernando Alonso will be Formula One's highest earning driver if he stays at Renault beyond this year, according to a report.

The SportsPro magazine claims that the double world champion stands to make an average (US) $46 million per year, should he chose not to exercise a clause that allows him to depart the French team ahead of the 2009 season.

The $46m figure, negotiated by the 26-year-old Spaniard and his manager Luis Garcia Abad, was derived reportedly because it is symbolically $1 million more than Kimi Raikkonen's annual retainer for racing at Ferrari.

It is also more than double the 2007 salary of Alonso's former team-mate at McLaren, Lewis Hamilton, SportsPro adds, and almost exactly twice what he earned at the British team last year.

Source: GMM
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