Fernando Alonso has in 2007 become the third highest earner in the world of sport, according to reports.
The daily sports newspaper El Mundo Deportivo said the 25-year-old tripled his pay packet by switching from Renault to McLaren, and attracted an additional $13m in private sponsorship after winning a successive drivers’ championship last season.
Alonso will earn at least (US) $43 million this year, the newspaper said, which ranks him behind sport’s top active earners Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, golfers who respectively make $90m and $47m every year.
El Mundo Deportivo claims that Alonso made less than $10 million at Renault in 2006.
He arrived in Bahrain on Thursday to test the MP4-22 from Friday morning.
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