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150/1 to win sports personality again. Better value than to win the title seeing as Abu Dhabs is the same dayWon't win but probably lay at 30/1 or so
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150/1 to win sports personality again. Better value than to win the title seeing as Abu Dhabs is the same dayHe's about 4 years late on that one.
He's up for it more than most seasons surely. The question is does the added pressure mean mistakes?Circuitmaster wrote: ↑2 years ago I'm less sure about Hammy and his chances. Not because I think the Merc is the slower car, but because I don't think he's in the right place mentally. I think he feels people getting bored with his success.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/f1-fa ... m/6696648/The results of the Global Survey were released on Thursday ahead of the United States Grand Prix after responses from more than 167,000 fans in 187 different countries.
Verstappen was voted by 14.4% of fans as their favourite driver, and ranked in the top three drivers among one-third of F1 fans.
Verstappen's rise in popularity had been noted in the 2017 report, but his upward trend continued in 2021, enjoying a sizeable amount of support in the Netherlands.
But Verstappen's popularity proved to be global as he ranked highly in the United States and Japan, showing his broad appeal.
Verstappen also scored highly among fans in the 35-54 age group, showing the 24-year-old's popularity was not exclusive to a younger audience.
Lando Norris finished second in the vote as 13.7% of fans voted him as their favourite driver, while over 40% of fans placed him in their top three.
The McLaren driver enjoyed unrivalled popularity among female fans, featuring in 57% of their top three driver votes, and comfortably stood out as the favourite driver of fans 24 and younger.
After being voted as the favourite driver in the 2017 Global Survey, reigning world champion Hamilton has dropped to third for 2021, gaining 12.5% of the vote. He remains the #1 driver in the United Kingdom.
Norris helped McLaren win the vote as fans' favourite team, with its on-track revival also being reflected in a significant upswing in popularity as its vote share almost doubled from 15.8% in 2017 to 29.5% in 2021.
Norris and team-mate Daniel Ricciardo - who finished fourth in the driver vote - helped McLaren rank #1 with 40% of fans in the 16-24 age group. McLaren also topped the vote in the UK, US, Australia, Canada and Brazil, as well as ranking first in Europe, the Americas, Middle East and Africa.
Red Bull ranked second in the vote with 19.7%, but was the most popular team with fans over the age of 45. Red Bull finished ahead of Ferrari, which fell from being F1 fans' favourite team in 2017 to third in the 2021 vote, sitting on 17.9%, while Mercedes dropped to fourth on 11.9%.
"...Add in image rights, a chic Montreal resto-bar and a number of luxury Quebec properties, and the sums could get dizzying.
Yet somehow, when he lived in Quebec in 2010, he declared just $6,431 in personal income — and claimed a tax credit for low-income families. The next two years, he declared $3,224 and $5,782 in income.
Much of Villeneuve's money, it turns out, was banked in offshore havens, mostly using tax avoidance strategies. Villeneuve also didn't live in Canada for most of his life and so didn't owe tax here for those years.
However, he was a Quebec resident from 1993 to 1996 and 2007 to 2013, and tax authorities are now accusing him of not reporting his full income and assets — including a Swiss bank account.
Certainly anyone in his sort of 'comfortable' financial situation minimises their tax commitments, and I understand that. Creative accounting and all that.Star wrote: ↑2 years ago @Everso Biggyballies I hadn't actually seen this story, so thanks
Oh dear, naughty JV!! I know he has connections in Switzerland, that is where his fan club was when I was a member, I recall sending Swiss Francs to the fan club to pay my membership.
Lots of highly paid celebs do this though, he's one in a long list of many others. Is it right? Of course not. If all of these rich people paid their taxes like the 'normal' folk do, we'd all end up paying less in the long run. If he has cheated the system and they make him pay, he only has himself (or some dodgy advisors) to blame.
They are talking about when he was living full time in Canada, not the other years. $5000 p.a. when you own/ run "a chic Montreal resto-bar" and own/rent out "a number of luxury Quebec properties"PTRACER wrote: ↑2 years ago Maybe JV only earned $5000 on Canadian ground during that time?
I guess selling his $7,200,000 house doesn't count as business income...
https://www.mtlblog.com/montreal/jacque ... ale-photos
JVs house.... not for me. Way to cold. Im solar powered and need sun to operate!Star wrote: ↑2 years ago The thing is, how many other former and current drivers are doing much the same now? Many of them move to tax havens to 'protect their earnings' when they don't seriously have to worry about money given how much they get paid in their careers, especially the top earning ones.
If my lotto ticket comes up on Saturday I'll consider buying his house, I had an email telling me I'd won this morning but I don't think £30 will cover it though, do you?