Casey Stoner Second-Highest Paid Athlete In Austrailia

Ever wonder what a MotoGP world champion pulls in after a
successful season? If you're Australian Casey Stoner, the figure
isn't exactly modest. A recent list of the top-earning Australian
athletes, published by Business Review Weekly, revealed that Stoner
is the second-highest paid Australian athlete in the world.
Over the past year, Stoner took home a whopping $9.1 million dollar
paycheck as he raced his way to a world championship in dominating
fashion. That was good enough to beat every other Australian
athlete on the list, save for NBA player Andrew Bogut. The starting
center for the Milwaukee Bucks made $13 million on his contract
last year.
The figures reported by the news source are in Australian dollars,
but the exchange rate to American money is relatively close. For
example, Stoner's $9.1 million Australian dollars ends up being
about $9.2 million in the United States.
Motorsports in general paid off very well for Australian athletes,
as Stoner just narrowly edged out Mark Webber, who was the top
money-earner in the country last year.
The wealth isn't entirely in the top tier competitions, either.
Chad Reed, who races in the AMA Motocross and Supercross series,
was slightly behind Stoner and Webber at approximately $8.5
million.