Sunday Times Sport Rich List

Each year the Sunday Times publishes a Rich List, and the recent findings under the Sports category saw plenty of motor racing figures topping the list.

McLaren’s Jenson Button tops the list for those under 30 years old with his £43m wealth. Eddie Irvine is ranked 5th overall with his £80m fortune.

Well we can only envy eh!

THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORT RICH LIST TOP 10

1 Dave Whelan Football £190m

2 David Beckham Football £125m

3 Johnny Dumfries Motor racing £110m

4 Lennox Lewis Boxing £95m

5 Eddie Irvine Motor racing £80m

6 Jody Scheckter Motor racing £60m

7 Dave Richards Motor racing £58m

8= David Coulthard Motor racing £50m

8= Nigel Mansell Motor racing £50m

10 Jenson Button Motor racing £43m

YOUNG SPORT RICH LIST TOP 10

Aged 30 and under

1 Jenson Button Motor racing £43m

2 Michael Owen Football £40m

3 Lewis Hamilton Motor racing £35m

4 Wayne Rooney Football £33m

5 John Terry Football £20m

6 Andy Murray Tennis £15m

7 Joe Cole Football £14m

8= Petr Cech Football £13m

8= Luol Deng Basketball £13m

8= Michael Essien Football £13m

The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom.

The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation.

Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded independently and came under common ownership only in 1966. Rupert Murdoch’s News International acquired the papers in 1981.