Brother, can you spare a dime for team Renault F1 driver Fernando Alonso? His pay was cut by 33% recently and instead of making a modest $17.5 million dollars a year, he will be forced to scrape by on a measly $11.4 million.

We hope that this pay cut will not force him to sell one of his homes, several of his high end exotic cars, lay off a mistress or two, or make him forgo the gold plating on his yacht.

We hear that he was spotted pricing out cutlery at the Dollar Store recently. Hey, everyone is suffering in this economy.