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The question of whether sponsorship goes to the team and the team pay the driver or the sponsorship goes direct to the driver is a matter of book keeping. What is not clear from any of those interesting earning figures is how many drivers actually get hired for their ability in the car and do not bring cash sponsors, we really will never know.
Many teams over all my years of motorsport interest have benefitted from the connections of drivers, having Stirling Moss as a driver probably guaranteed certain tyre supplies for example and his rise in F1 had a lot to do with his father buying a Maserati for him
What seems to be happening now is that drivers need to be able to bring budget for F1 whereas some other classes of racing require less, or even no budget and so we lose drivers to F1 who have less funding.
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