NASCAR Payouts

Firetiger(MN) · October 7, 2002

Anyone have an idea how the payout is figured for a race? I see guys that finish 30th with not that much less money won than guys in the top five.

MountaineerTom · October 8, 2002

It has to do with different sponsor programs the teams have I htink. Not the teams major sponsor, but all the littler one, I think. That's the way I've always understood it. Maybe someone else can clarify. ???

Firetiger(MN) · October 8, 2002

3M

$5,000, divided with $1,000 each to 1st, 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th finishers

76 (Tosco)

$1,000 to highest finishing eligible driver

Aeroquip

$5,000, divided-$1,800 (1st), $1,400 (2nd), $800 (5th), $600 (10th), $400 (15th)

Bowman

$4,300, divided-$1,300 (1st), $800 (2nd), $600 (3rd), $500 (4th), $400 (5th), $300 (10th), $200 (15th), $200(20th)

Bud Pole

$5,000-fastest qualifying time; $500-fastest second round qualifying time

Clevite

$3,000, divided-$1,200 (1st), $800 (2nd), $600 (10th), $400 (20th)

Comp Cams

$4,300, divided-$2,000 (1st), $1,400 (2nd), $900 (3rd)

EA Sports

$5,000-Move of the Race, most exciting, distinctive on-track move

Edelbrock

$5,000, divided-$1,250 (1st), $1,100 (2nd), $1,000 (3rd), $900 (4th), $750 (5th)

Gatorade

$10,000-driver who leads the most laps. Eligible for year-end award

Goodyear Belts & Hoses

$4,300, divided-$2,000 (1st), $1,400 (2nd), $900 (3rd)

Hasbro Sports

$5,000-Pit Strategy award-crew chief with best pit strategy

Holley

$5,000, divided-$1,700 (1st), $1,200 (2nd), $700 (3rd), $200 each (4th-10th) Hurst

$4,300, divided-$1,200 (1st), $1,050 (2nd), $850 (3rd), $700 (4th), $500 (5th)

MAC Tools

$5,000-10th place car owner

Moog

$4,300, divided-$1,500 (1st), $1,000 (2nd), $600 (5th), $500 (10th), $400 (15th), $300 (20th)

NASCAR Winston Cup

$10,000 award if winning driver is leading points at the end of the event. Award adds $10,000 for each race unclaimed until there is a winner

Nomex

$5,000, divided-$2,500 (1st), $1,000 (5th), $500 (10th). $1,000 for crew chief of highest eligible finishing car

Plasti-Kote

$4,300-"Winning Finish"to crew chief of eligible winning car

Prestone

$4,300, divided-$2,500 (1st), $1,200 (2nd), $600 (3rd)

Raybestos

$5,000, divided-$2,000 (1st), $1,200 (2nd), $800 (3rd), $500 (10th), $500 (20th)

Simpson

$4,300, divided-$2,000 (1st), $1,300 (10th), $1,000 (20th)

Spicer

$5,000, divided (crew chiefs)-$2,300 (1st), $1,300 (2nd), $900 (3rd), $500 (10th)

TrueValue

$5,000-"Man of the Race" $2,500 to highest eligible finisher; $2,500 to charity of winner's choice

Daytona USA

$100,000 to the Daytona 500's winning team whose car is taken for display for one year

Contingency awards

3M: $1,200

Auto Meter: $1,400

Bowman: $1,500

Clevite: $1,200

Competition Cams: $2,100

Edelbrock: $1,300

Goodyear Belts and Hoses : $2,000

Holley Carburetor: $1,700

Jesel: $2,500

Mechanix Wear: $1,750

Moog: $1,500

Raybestos: $2,000

Wix: $2,250

Other awards

True Value Driver of the Race: $5,000

Infogrames Pit Strategy Award: $4,300

EA Sports Move of the Race: $4,300

MCI WorldCom Fast-Pace Award:

The MCI WorldCom Fast-Pace Award of $5,000 is awarded at every NASCAR Winston Cup event, to the eligible driver that. records the fastest lap while leading the race, as determined by the MCI WorldCom, NASCAR Timing and Scoring system. The MCI WorldCom Fast Pace Year End Award of $50,000 will be awarded to the eligible driver that accumulates the most MCI WorldCom Fast Pace Awards throughout the season in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Jeff Gordon won the $50,000 year-end MCI WorldCom Fast Pace Award in 1998 and $40,000 throughout the season for a total of $90,000.

True Value Man-Of-The-Year Awards:

Now in its fourth year, The True Value Hard Charger of the Race/True Value Hard Charger of the Year awards reward drivers for rewarding others. True Value, the Official Hardware Store of NASCAR, pays the eligible winner of each NASCAR Winston Cup race $5,000, half of which goes to the driver and half of which goes to the driver's designated charity. In addition, the NASCAR Winston Cup season is divided into quarters in which drivers are nominated for the True Value Hard Charger of the Year. The quarterly winners are then chosen on the basis of on-track activity and off-track contributions to charitable organizations and community efforts. From those quarterly winners, a special blue-chip panel -- which included baseball superstar Cal Ripken Jr., USA Today's motorsports editor Steve Ballard, and NASCAR's all-time winner Richard Petty -- chose the winner for the year.

Raybestos Top Stopper Award:

Raybestos... Brakes, the Official Brakes of NASCAR, will award $25,000 to the eligible winning driver of each of the 33 NWCS point events. In addition, $1,000 will be made available to the second-place finisher and $500 for third. Raybestos will provide a year-end Bonus Award of $50,000 to the eligible driver based on the final NASCAR Winston Cup point standings in conjunction with 100 points awarded by Raybestos to each eligible race winner, 50 for second and 25 for third.

Plasti-Kote Winning And Quality Finish Awards:

Plasti-Kote, the Official Spray Paint of NASCAR, presents a $3,000 Winning Finish Award to the crew chief of the winning car in each of the 34 NWCS events. In addition, Plasti-Kote will present $65,000 in Quality Finish Awards at the conclusion of the season to the crew chiefs on the top three teams that post the best average overall finishing positions in 34 NWCS races this season.

DuPont Point Fund Awards:

A special award program sponsored by DuPont, the Official Finish of NASCAR, is posting NASCAR Winston Cup Series point fund awards totaling $75,000, The DuPont point fund shall be paid to the top 10 drivers in the final NWCS point standings who meet the criteria of the program.

These awards provide Winston Cup with two of its most tedious ceremonies. As the drivers are introduced before each race, several awards are presented for the preceding event. In Victory Lane, the winner goes through a seemingly endless process of taking off one sponsor-labeled baseball cap and putting on another. These presentations are all photographed, Triplett said. Each week, NASCAR assembles prints of the driver getting the check or the trophy or, in the case of the RCA pit strategy award, a big stuffed dog, and sends them to the respective sponsors.

Besides race contingency awards, there are manufacturers' awards, dispersed at the end of the season, money that ranges from $7 million from R.J. Reynolds to $25,000 from Goodyear.

In all, more than $8 million in manufacturers' awards will be paid to teams at the end of the season. It's stickers and plans and having been successful in the past as much as in the present. Rookies are especially vulnerable: They have no track record of success, which counts for so much. $1,000 for the NASCAR Winston Cup Series Rookie-of-the-Race. Past success, success today and success tomorrow. That's what adds up to big bucks on race day.