Sebastian Vettel Net Worth 2026: The $140M F1 Fortune

Last updated: November 13, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Sebastian Vettel’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $140 million. That is the figure published by Celebrity Net Worth, and it is the number PlayersBio, RacingNews365 and SurpriseSports all land on in their 2026 updates. The honest range across credible outlets runs from $140 million to $160 million, and this article shows the whole spread — including the outliers at $120 million and $200 million — before settling on $140 million as the anchor. Vettel stopped racing at the end of 2022, so this is a fortune built entirely in the past: sixteen seasons of Formula 1 salary, win bonuses and a small set of endorsement deals, plus the investments and property he has kept since.

The gap between what he earned and what he kept is the first thing to understand. SurpriseSports puts his total career earnings above $500 million, and the salary-tracking site SalarySport totals his F1 salary alone at $338.8 million. His net worth is $140 million. The difference is taxes, agent fees, team costs and a quiet life — Vettel never published his accounts, no outlet has seen them, and every number here is an estimate drawn from named sources, not a bank statement. What follows traces how the boy from Heppenheim who started karting at three became the youngest world champion in Formula 1 history, what each team paid him along the way, what he owns now, and what his life looks like four years after he walked away from the sport.

He is 39 years old in 2026, married to his childhood sweetheart Hanna Prater, father of three, and living on a farm in Switzerland. He won four world championships in a row, 53 Grands Prix, and at his peak Ferrari paid him $50 million a year. Then he took a pay cut to $15 million at Aston Martin, retired at 35, sold eight of his Ferraris, and started running marathons and planting trees. The money story and the life story run in opposite directions: the pay peaked in 2018, and the life got simpler every year after.

Sebastian Vettel Net Worth 2026: The Short Answer

Sebastian Vettel is worth an estimated $140 million in 2026. The figure has barely moved in four years — Celebrity Net Worth carried the same number in 2022, the year he retired, and it still carries it now. That stillness is the point. Vettel has not earned a racing salary since the end of 2022, so his fortune is no longer growing from paydays. It grows, or holds, from whatever he did with the money while he was earning it.

The range around the anchor is wider than the anchor itself suggests. The table below lines up every published estimate this article could find, with its date, so the reader can see which numbers are fresh and which are stale.

Four sources at $140 million, one at $150–$160 million, and the rest scattered from $109 million to $260 million. The $260 million figure has no date and no method attached to it, and it sits so far above every other estimate that it reads as an old page that was never corrected. The $200 million figure from WhoEarns is a ranking-table number with no sourcing behind it. The $120 million figure from NetWorthBreakdown is the most careful of the low outliers — it builds its case from the Ferrari contracts — but it still lands $20 million below the four outlets that agree on $140 million. The honest answer is $140 million, with $140–$160 million as the range across the outlets that show their working. The rest of this article is the evidence underneath that number: sixteen seasons of pay, four championships, and a retirement spent mostly off camera.

Heppenheim to Karting: The Early Years

Sebastian Vettel was born on July 3, 1987, in Heppenheim, a small town in West Germany, the third of four children of Norbert and Heike Vettel. His father ran a carpentry business and raced karts as a hobby; his mother was a homemaker. The karting started at three, on a track his father built in the family garden, and the racing started at eight. By his early teens he was winning German junior karting titles, and by 2003 he was in Red Bull’s junior programme — the driver academy that would fund his climb through the junior formulas and, eventually, into Formula 1 itself.

The junior career was fast and expensive, and Red Bull paid for most of it. Vettel won the Formula BMW ADAC championship in 2004 with 18 wins from 20 races, then moved through Formula 3 Euro Series, where he finished second in 2006. That same year he became BMW Sauber’s test driver in Formula 1, and at 19 he was the youngest driver ever to take part in a Grand Prix weekend. The money at this stage was small — junior drivers earn little, and the academy covers the costs — but the investment was already visible: Red Bull had spotted a teenager from a carpentry family in Heppenheim and decided he was worth backing all the way to the top.

Two details from the early years explain the fortune that followed. First, Vettel was never a pay driver — he never brought sponsor money to buy a seat, which meant every team that hired him paid him, rather than the other way round. Second, he arrived in Formula 1 through a manufacturer academy, not through family wealth, which meant his contracts were negotiated on results from the start. When the results came, the pay followed in a straight line upward, and it did not stop climbing for eleven years.

The Debut and the First Win: BMW Sauber and Toro Rosso

Vettel’s Formula 1 debut came at the 2007 United States Grand Prix, standing in for the injured Robert Kubica at BMW Sauber. He finished eighth and scored a point — at 19 years and 349 days, the youngest driver ever to score a championship point at the time. The debut paid almost nothing in itself. Its value was the signal it sent: a teenager who could step into a midfield car on short notice and bring it home in the points was a driver teams would fight over. Toro Rosso signed him midway through the 2007 season, and he stayed there through 2008.

The first win arrived on September 14, 2008, at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, in the rain, in a Toro Rosso — a car that had no business winning a Grand Prix. Vettel started from pole, led every lap, and won by 12.5 seconds. He was 21 years and 73 days old, the youngest Grand Prix winner in the sport’s history, a record that still stands. The win changed his market value overnight. Red Bull, which owned Toro Rosso, promoted him to its senior team for 2009, and the salary curve that had been flat through his rookie years bent sharply upward.

Those two seasons were the cheapest of his career and the most important. A debut point and a win in a backmarker car did what no amount of junior success could do: they proved he could win in machinery that was not the best on the grid. Every contract that followed — Red Bull, Ferrari, Aston Martin — was priced on that proof. The Toro Rosso years paid him a rookie wage, but they bought him the reputation that made the next fourteen years pay like they did.

The Red Bull Years: Four Titles and the First Big Money

Vettel joined Red Bull Racing in 2009 and won four consecutive world championships in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. He was 23 years and 134 days old when he won the first, the youngest world champion the sport has ever had. The numbers from those four seasons are the core of his racing record: 38 wins in six Red Bull seasons, 57 pole positions across his career, and a run of nine consecutive victories in 2013 that no driver had managed before. He finished his Red Bull career with 38 wins, second only to the records of the all-time greats, and he did it all before his 27th birthday.

The pay rose with the titles, but it rose slowly at first. RacingNews365 puts his Red Bull salary in the $8–25 million a year band across the six seasons. In 2011, the Telegraph reported that his teammate Mark Webber earned about £5 million a year — “roughly half what Vettel earns” — which put Vettel at roughly £10 million, or about $16 million, in his second championship season. DriveSpark reported $27 million for his final Red Bull year in 2014, and SurpriseSports’ season table lists $10 million for 2010 and $35 million for 2013. The figures disagree in the details because teams never publish them, but the shape is clear: single-digit millions at the start, mid-twenties by the end, and a total Red Bull haul somewhere in the region of $90–110 million in salary before tax.

Red Bull also gave him his first serious endorsement income, most notably from Infiniti, the team’s title sponsor, which put its name on a limited-edition Vettel model of its FX SUV. The endorsement money was small next to the salary — PlayersBio reports his endorsement income at about $500,000 a year — and that pattern held for his whole career. Vettel was never a driver who sold watches and soft drinks at the scale of his rivals. His fortune was built on salary, not sponsorship, and the Red Bull years were the first proof of it. The comparison with the driver who followed him at Red Bull is instructive: Max Verstappen’s net worth is anchored at $210 million on our site, built on a $70 million Red Bull salary in a far richer era of driver pay. Vettel’s Red Bull money came from an earlier, cheaper time, and the gap between the two fortunes is mostly the gap between the two eras.

The Ferrari Years: Peak Pay, 14 Wins, No Fifth Title

Vettel moved to Ferrari in 2015, following his childhood hero Michael Schumacher to Maranello, and the move made him the best-paid driver on the grid. RacingNews365 puts his Ferrari salary at $30–50 million a year, with the peak — $50 million a year — coming in his final three seasons, 2018 to 2020. Eurosport’s reporting breaks it down in euros: €28 million in his first year, €32 million in the second, then €40 million a season for three years, for a six-season total of about €200 million. The Daily Mail reported the initial three-year deal at £50 million a year, and PlayersBio records a three-year contract signed in 2018 at $42 million a year. The outlets disagree on the exact number, as they always do with Ferrari, but they agree on the order of magnitude: roughly $40 million a year, rising to $50 million at the top, across six seasons.

Forbes noticed. In 2017, Forbes ranked Vettel 18th on its list of the world’s highest-paid athletes, with reported earnings of $36.5 million for the year, and the same ranking put his salary and endorsements at $40 million a year during the Ferrari period. Forbes reported his 2020 earnings — his final Ferrari season — at $36.3 million. The Ferrari years were the financial peak of his life, and they were also the sporting frustration of it. He won 14 Grands Prix for Ferrari, finished runner-up in the championship in 2017 and 2018, and lost both title fights to Lewis Hamilton, whose net worth we put at $400–550 million, anchored at $450 million. Hamilton’s fortune is more than three times Vettel’s, and the gap is a fair measure of the difference between winning seven titles at Mercedes and winning none at Ferrari: the wins brought the bonuses, the titles brought the bargaining power, and Hamilton kept collecting both while Vettel’s pay peaked and then stopped.

His Ferrari teammate for the last two seasons was Charles Leclerc, who arrived in 2019 and outscored him in both years they raced together. Our Leclerc profile puts his fortune at $70–125 million, anchored at $100 million — a younger driver, six years into his career, already within touching distance of Vettel’s lifetime total. That is the speed at which modern driver pay has moved: Leclerc’s $58 million Ferrari extension is worth more in a single deal than Vettel earned in his first four Red Bull seasons combined. Ferrari announced in May 2020 that Vettel would not be retained for 2021, and the $50 million years ended with it.

One more figure from the Ferrari years deserves a line of its own. In 2014, before the move was announced, DriveSpark reported that Vettel was about to sign a Ferrari deal worth $80 million for 2015 alone — a number that would have made him the highest-paid athlete in the world. It never happened. The real deal was closer to half that. The $80 million report is a useful warning about this whole subject: the biggest numbers attached to Vettel’s name are often the ones that were rumoured, not the ones that were signed. This article uses the signed-range figures — $30–50 million — and treats the $80 million as what it was: a headline, not a contract.

Sebastian Vettel Salary: Year by Year

No team ever published Vettel’s salary, so a year-by-year table has to be built from reported ranges, and the honest version of it says so. The table below uses RacingNews365’s per-team bands, SurpriseSports’ season figures, the Telegraph’s 2011 report and Eurosport’s Ferrari totals. Where two sources disagree, the table shows the range. Where nothing was reported — the rookie years — it says so rather than guessing.

The curve tells the story in one glance: flat for two years, a steady climb through four championships, a jump at Ferrari, three years at the top, then a cliff. The Ferrari peak — $50 million a year — lasted three seasons. The Aston Martin pay was less than a third of it. Add the mid-points of those bands and the total lands close to SalarySport’s tally of $338.8 million in career salary, with 2018 as the best single season at $60 million. That $338.8 million is salary only. Bonuses, prize money and endorsements take the gross career total past $500 million, which is where the next section picks up the story.

Aston Martin: The Pay Cut and the Goodbye

Vettel joined Aston Martin for 2021, and the pay cut was brutal. He had been earning about $45 million a year at Ferrari; at Aston Martin he earned about $15 million, according to RacingNews365 and Sporf. The former Ferrari press officer Alberto Antonini, writing in Business F1, put it more sharply: team owner Lawrence Stroll had cut “almost 90%” of Vettel’s salary, and hired him as much for his reputation and commercial pull as for his speed. The SportsRush, reporting Antonini’s column, noted that $15 million is not 10% of $45 million, so the “90%” is an exaggeration — but the direction is not in doubt. Vettel took roughly a two-thirds pay cut to keep racing.

The results did not repay the cut. In two seasons he scored a single podium — second place at the 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix — and a second-place finish at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix that was taken away by disqualification over a fuel-sample irregularity. He beat his teammate Lance Stroll in both seasons, but the car was a midfield car, and a four-time world champion in a midfield car is a driver waiting for a reason to stop. The reason arrived in July 2022, when he announced he would retire at the end of the season to spend more time with his family and to work on the environmental causes that had mattered to him for years. His final race was the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in November 2022. He was 35.

The Aston Martin years are the least lucrative of his career and the most revealing about his priorities. A driver chasing money does not take a $30 million pay cut to drive a slower car. Vettel took it because he wanted to keep racing on his own terms, and when the terms stopped suiting him, he left — at 35, with his health, his family and his fortune intact, rather than chasing two more seasons of diminishing pay in a car that could not win. The fortune he retired with, $140 million, was fixed on the day he stopped. Everything since has been about what he does with it.

Career Earnings: 0 Million Gross, 0 Million Kept

SurpriseSports puts Vettel’s total career earnings above $500 million, counting salary, prize money and bonuses. SalarySport’s season-by-season salary tally comes to $338.8 million, with 2018 as the best year at $60 million. The gap between the two numbers — roughly $160 million — is win bonuses, championship bonuses and prize money, the parts of a driver’s pay that only arrive when the car wins. Vettel’s four championship seasons and 53 wins made those bonuses a large part of his income, and the Ferrari years added more: a driver on $50 million a year who also wins races is collecting bonuses on top of the base.

So how does $500 million gross become $140 million net? The arithmetic is illustrative — Vettel has never published his accounts — but the shape of it is standard for a driver in his position. Start with $500 million gross. Take off income tax across three countries: Germany, where he started; the United Kingdom, where his teams were based; and Switzerland, where he has lived since his racing career. Swiss residency helped, but a driver paid by a British team while living in Switzerland still faces a serious tax bill, and the common working assumption in motorsport reporting is that a top driver keeps roughly half of gross earnings after tax, agent fees and team-related costs. Half of $500 million is $250 million. Then take off sixteen years of living costs, travel, staff, insurance and the running costs of a car collection and a farm, and the number falls again. What is left is $140 million — a fortune, but a long way from half a billion.

That is the honest answer to the question every reader of a net-worth article is really asking: where did the rest of the money go? It went to the taxman in three countries, to the people who managed his career, and to sixteen years of living at the standard his salary allowed. Vettel’s spending was modest by the standards of his peers — no yacht, no fleet of houses, no public displays of wealth — which is why $140 million is at the top end of what his career could plausibly have left him. A driver who spent like his rivals would be worth less. The $140 million figure is, in that sense, a compliment to his restraint as much as to his earnings.

Endorsements: Casio, Shell, Infiniti and Pepe Jeans

Vettel’s endorsement portfolio was always small, and he liked it that way. RacingNews365 lists four sponsors: the watch brand Casio, the oil company Shell, the carmaker Infiniti and the clothing brand Pepe Jeans. The Infiniti deal was the most visible — the company sponsored Red Bull and put its name on a limited-edition Vettel version of its FX SUV, the Infiniti FX Vettel Edition, priced at about $154,390. The Casio deal put his name on watches. Shell’s link came through Ferrari, whose cars have carried the Shell name for decades. Pepe Jeans dressed him off track.

The money from all of it was modest. PlayersBio reports his endorsement income at about $500,000 a year — a rounding error next to a $50 million salary. That is the most striking thing about Vettel’s fortune: it was built almost entirely on what teams paid him to drive, not on what brands paid him to be seen. Compare that with the modern grid, where a driver like Lando Norris — whose net worth we put at $40–70 million, anchored at $60 million — has built a separate business, Quadrant, on top of his McLaren salary. Vettel never built a brand business. He drove, he collected his salary, and he went home to Switzerland. The endorsement section of his fortune is short because his commercial life was short, and that is a choice, not an oversight.

One endorsement deserves a footnote. In his final Ferrari seasons, Vettel wore the team’s sponsors and said little about them. He was known in the paddock for turning down deals that did not interest him, and for keeping his helmet and his car free of the personal sponsors other drivers collected. The four brands that did get through were the ones tied to his teams — Shell and Infiniti through the cars he drove, Casio and Pepe Jeans through deals that predated his fame. A driver who turns down money is a driver who does not need it, and Vettel, at $40 million a year, did not.

The House, the Farm and the Cars He Sold

Vettel lives with his wife and children in a medieval-style farmhouse in Thurgau, Switzerland, a property reported to be worth around $7 million. The figure comes from Essentially Sports, repeated by PlayersBio, and it should be read as reported rather than confirmed — Vettel asked the canton of Thurgau to remove his land-registry data, and no primary property record is public. What is confirmed is the shape of the life: a farmhouse, not a Monaco penthouse; a small farm he works himself, growing vegetables and keeping bees, which he described on the BBC’s Chequered Flag podcast in September 2026; and a boathouse in Eschenz, on Lake Constance, which PlayersBio also lists among his properties. He moved to Switzerland during his racing career, as many drivers do, and he stayed there after retiring — unlike peers who keep houses in Monaco, London and Los Angeles, Vettel has one home, and it is a farm.

The car collection tells the same story in a different key. Over the years it included a Ferrari F430 worth about $217,000, a California T, a Ferrari F40 worth $700,000–$900,000, a Mercedes SL65 AMG, an Aston Martin DBX from 2021 and the Infiniti FX Vettel Edition. Then, in 2021, he sold eight of them through the British dealer Tom Hartley Jnr — five Ferraris, including a 2016 LaFerrari, a 2004 Enzo with just 1,112 miles on it, and an F50, plus two Mercedes-AMG models and a 2002 BMW Z8 listed at £175,000. Hagerty covered the sale at the time and updated its report in October 2026. The sale prices were not made public, but the Enzo and the LaFerrari alone would have been worth several million dollars between them. Selling them was read at the time as a clean break with the Ferrari chapter of his life, and that reading still holds: he kept the cars he drives, and he let go of the ones that were trophies.

What he drives now is the punchline to the whole section. His everyday car is an electric Porsche, and his family holidays run on a diesel Volkswagen camper van. A four-time world champion worth $140 million, who once collected Ferraris, now drives a camper van to go camping with his children. The detail comes from interviews he gave after retiring, and it fits everything else in this article: the farm, the bees, the single house, the small endorsement list. Vettel’s wealth is real, and his interest in showing it off is not.

Family: Hanna Prater and Three Children

Vettel married Hanna Prater in 2019. They are childhood sweethearts from Heppenheim — she was the girl next door, in the literal sense, and the two were together for years before they married. The wedding was private, the way everything about their life together has been private, and Hanna has never given interviews about the marriage. She has, however, been quoted once on the subject that explains most of Vettel’s choices: she has said he prefers a quiet life to the glitzier spots other drivers choose, which is why the family lives on a farm in Switzerland rather than in Monaco.

They have three children: daughters Emilie, born in 2014, and Matilda, born in 2015, and a son born in 2019 whose name has never been made public. Vettel announced his retirement in July 2022 by saying he wanted to spend more time with them, and he has kept that promise in the most literal way — he runs the farm, he takes the children camping in the VW van, and he has turned down every serious offer to return to racing since. The children do not appear in public, their names are not used in marketing, and the family has no social media presence to speak of. In a sport where drivers’ families are part of the show, the Vettels are the exception that proves the rule.

The family is also the reason the fortune is what it is. A driver with three young children and a wife who values privacy is a driver who spends money on a house, a farm and school fees, not on yachts and nightclubs. The $140 million is a family fortune in the plainest sense: it is the money that is left after sixteen years of earning, taxed in three countries, and spent on the ordinary things a family of five needs. Vettel’s net worth is not a number on a rich list. It is the balance of a working life, kept mostly intact because the life around it was kept small.

Vettel vs the Grid: Where 0 Million Sits

Net-worth searches rarely stop at one driver. Readers who ask what Vettel is worth usually want to know how he compares to the men he raced against — and the comparison puts him in the middle of the grid’s rich list, below the active champions and above the young stars. The table below uses our own Guide Net Worth profiles for every figure, so the numbers are consistent with each other.

The spread is $18 million to $450 million, and Vettel sits just below the middle of it. Three things explain his position. First, timing: he earned his biggest money between 2015 and 2020, when $50 million a year was the top of the market; Hamilton and Verstappen earn $70 million a year now, and Alonso’s 25-season career gave him a decade more of paydays. Second, titles: Hamilton’s seven and Verstappen’s four (and counting) brought bonuses and bargaining power that Vettel’s four, won a decade ago, no longer command. Third, business: Alonso built Kimoa, Hamilton built Almave and X44, Norris built Quadrant. Vettel built nothing outside racing, and the table shows the cost of that choice — about $100 million, if you compare him with Alonso, the driver whose career is closest to his in length and whose fortune is nearly twice his.

There is a kinder way to read the same table. Vettel is the only retired driver on it, and his fortune has held at $140 million for four years without a salary behind it. The active drivers above him are still earning; their numbers will keep moving. His will not, unless his investments do the work. He is also the only driver on the list whose fortune was built on salary alone, with no business empire and no endorsement machine behind it. Measured against what he was paid, $140 million is a good result. Measured against what his rivals built on top of their pay, it is a reminder that a racing salary, however large, is only the start of a fortune.

Life After Racing: 2023 to 2026

Retirement has suited Vettel in a way that surprises people who expected a comeback. He has stayed close to motorsport without returning to it. In 2023 he became co-owner of the Germany SailGP Team, the sailing series’ German entry, putting his name and money behind a sport he had never raced in. In March 2025 he teamed up with Mick Schumacher to represent Germany at the Race of Champions in Sydney, where he also performed the opening-ceremony stunt of steering a car with his legs. He has kept testing himself in new ways: on April 27, 2026, he completed the London Marathon in 2 hours, 59 minutes and 8 seconds, running to raise money for the Grand Prix Trust and the Brain & Spine Foundation.

His environmental work has grown rather than faded. The F1REST project, launched around the 2025 Brazilian Grand Prix, campaigns for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, and he has kept up the litter-picking and waste-awareness work he started during his racing years — in 2022 he collected plastic in São Paulo and built a giant Ayrton Senna helmet from it, with Hamilton, George Russell and Charles Leclerc among the drivers who joined him. In September 2026 he returned to the cockpit at Monza, driving one of Michael Schumacher’s Ferraris to mark the 30th anniversary of Schumacher joining Ferrari — a one-off appearance, not a comeback, and the distinction matters to him.

The comeback rumours have followed him since 2023, and he has answered them more firmly each time. In July 2025 he told Auto Motor und Sport that it was time to step aside for a new generation. Then, on September 30, 2026, speaking on the BBC’s Chequered Flag podcast after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, he ruled out a return as a driver for good, while leaving the door open to a future off-track role in the sport. He said he was not actively pursuing a job — not speaking to teams or dropping his CV around — but that he was “still very much involved” and following Formula 1’s move toward sustainable fuels and its 2030 net-zero target with close interest. He also quashed rumours of an advisory role at Red Bull following Helmut Marko’s exit in 2025. The message is consistent: the driving is over, the watching is not, and the farm comes first.

Is Sebastian Vettel a Billionaire?

No. Vettel is worth about $140 million, which is roughly one-seventh of a billion dollars. The question gets asked because his career earnings passed $500 million gross, and $500 million sounds close to a billion — but gross earnings and net worth are different things, and the $360 million between them went to taxes, fees and sixteen years of living costs. No retired Formula 1 driver has ever reached a billion dollars from racing alone, and Vettel is not the exception. The richest driver in the sport’s history, Michael Schumacher, was estimated at around $600–800 million at his peak, and he earned roughly $1 billion across his career, according to Forbes. Vettel earned about half that and kept about a quarter of what Schumacher kept.

The billionaire question also misses what Vettel’s money actually is. A billionaire’s fortune is usually a business, a stake, or a portfolio that keeps growing without its owner working. Vettel’s fortune is the savings of a working life — sixteen seasons of salary, kept mostly intact. It does not grow on its own. It holds, or it shrinks, depending on what he does with it. His SailGP co-ownership is the one investment that could change that arithmetic, but no figure has been reported for it, and this article does not guess one. For now, the honest answer is $140 million, a very large fortune, and not a billion.

Sebastian Vettel Net Worth: Frequently Asked Questions

Sources & Reporting

This article was reported from public sources on November 13, 2026. Net worth: Celebrity Net Worth, “Sebastian Vettel Net Worth” (page last modified October 25, 2024 — $140 million); PlayersBio, “Sebastian Vettel Net Worth | Cars, Salary & Contract” (last update November 2026 — $140 million; Ferrari salary $40 million including bonuses; endorsements ~$500,000 a year; Thurgau farmhouse ~$7 million); RacingNews365, “Sebastian Vettel net worth | salary, sponsors & more” ($140 million; Ferrari $30–50 million a year, peak $50 million 2018–2020; Red Bull $8–25 million; Aston Martin $15 million; Forbes 18th highest-paid athlete 2017); SurpriseSports, “Sebastian Vettel Net Worth in 2026” (updated October 27, 2026 — $140 million; career earnings over $500 million; Ferrari peak ~$40 million a year); HypeProfiles ($150–$160 million, January 6, 2026); NetWorthBreakdown ($120 million); InterestingFootball ($180 million, June 2025); WhoEarns ($200 million, May 2026); ChaseYourSport ($260 million, stale); FirstSportz / Crash.net ($109 million, 2024). Salaries: SalarySport ($338.8 million career salary total, best season 2018 $60 million); Sporf (Aston Martin $15 million a year; ~£300 million pre-tax from F1); The SportsRush / Business F1 (Aston Martin pay cut from ~$45 million); Eurosport via Motorionline (€200 million across six Ferrari seasons); Daily Mail (initial Ferrari deal reported at £50 million a year); DriveSpark ($27 million at Red Bull in 2014; $80 million Ferrari report for 2015, not signed). Career: Wikipedia-standard totals (299 starts, 53 wins, 57 poles, 122 podiums, 3,098 points; youngest winner 21 years 73 days; youngest champion 23 years 134 days). Property and cars: Hagerty, “F1 champ Sebastian Vettel is selling his stable of prancing horses” (updated October 26, 2026 — eight cars via Tom Hartley Jnr, including 2016 LaFerrari, 2004 Enzo, F50, 2002 BMW Z8 at £175,000). Post-retirement: BBC Chequered Flag podcast (September 30, 2026 — no F1 return as a driver); World Today Journal (London Marathon, April 27, 2026, 2:59:08); sports.info (Race of Champions, Sydney 2025, with Mick Schumacher). Peer figures: Guide Net Worth profiles for Lewis Hamilton ($400–550M), Fernando Alonso ($260–400M), Max Verstappen ($200–250M), Charles Leclerc ($70–125M), Lando Norris ($40–70M) and Kimi Antonelli ($18M). All figures are reported or estimated as labelled in the text; where sources disagree, the article shows the range and says why. Corrections: if any figure in this article is shown to be wrong, contact us and we will correct it with a dated note, per our corrections policy.