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Marc Marquez has smiled again on the track after giving up the best contract on the grid MotoGP with Honda to get on the Ducati satellite of the Gresini team. Despite leaving aside the economic factor in this decision, the 31-year-old Catalan driver can rest easy according to the latest list prepared by the specialized magazine Forbes. The native of Cervera He is the fourth most wealthy athlete in Spain, just shy of a podium occupied by Rafa Nadal, Andrés Iniesta and Sergio Ramos.
With an estimated net worth of 80 million of euros, Márquez remains, like the rest of the country’s athletes, light years away from a Rafa Nadal which is about to play its last official tournament, the Davis Cup. The Mallorcan tennis player, to his 38 yearsaccumulates a wealth of 310 million euroswhile his accompanying footballers on the podium have an estimated net worth of 100 million euros.
The new factory contract with the official Ducati team will probably once again place Márquez as one of the highest paid on the grid, although the next unknown is what will happen with some of his long-time business partners, such as Red Bull , incompatible with the Italian brand’s agreement with Monster Energy. There are also other incompatibilities beyond energy drinks, such as that of technology firms Samsung and Lenovo, to name a few.
Despite the million-dollar income of these athletes and many others, none of them appear among the Top 100 richest people in Spain. If sports businessmen like Juan Carlos Escotetowner of Abanca and shareholder of Deportivo de la Coruña, Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid and several construction companies and Fernando Roigpresident of Villarreal and ceramics businessman, all of them with billion-dollar fortunes that exceed 1,500 million euros in assets.
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