The four-time world champion will retire from F1 at the end of the 2022 season, and will 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:be replaced at Aston Martin by Fernand﷽o Alonso.

Vettel has amassed huge riches in his 15-season career but is choosing to wa🎶lk away, at the age of 35, from even more.

He started earning major money in 2009, upon joining Red Bull. He finished second in his first season with the tea🎀m then in 2010, when he won a world championship for the first time, he reportedly earned an €2m salary, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

That wasn’t even among the ♏top 10 earners on the grid🍌.

Vettel wou๊ld win four championships in a row with Red Bull.

The same so💟urce estimates that his salary increased to €8m in 2011, €10m in 2012 and €12m in 2013.

In 2014, although he did not wiꦰn the world championship, his pay rocketed to €22m, El Mundo reported.

Vettel repl𒁏aced Fernando Alonso at Ferrari in 2015. His on-track fortunes would dwindle but his bank account fortune would soar.

He was being paid a reported €28m in his Ferrari debut campaign - Vettel was now the second-highest earner on the F1 grid behind 🅺Alonso.

He was ranked by Forbes as the 18th highest earning athlete in all 🗹of sports in 2💟017.

By 2018, ♍although his luck with Ferrari did not improve, Forbes estimated that he was being paid €40m per season🦄.

That decreased to ♌€36m in 💜his final campaign with Ferrari.

Vettel opted to take a pay cut to stay in F1 with Aston Martin in 2020 where he reportedly pockets £12.2m (€14.6m), 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:making him the joint-fifth t♈op earner of 2022.

That current contract expi💃res at the end of this season and he opted to retire, rather than sign a new one-year deal, Spanish ne♏wspaper AS reported.

Vettel has also shunned many personal endorsements over the year which did not align to the beliefs which he has become so respec🃏ted for.

He w💛ill retire as one of the most successful drivers of his era - 🍨and among the best paid.