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Average salary is around 40 to 45 thousand a year, but it also depends on what team your on. The good teams that win races, hand out bonuses and will pay more than the average race team to have the best guys. Some teams have even been known to "steal" certain crew members away, after their contract is up with they're current team, to work for them. As of 2008, many and or most pit crew members make from $60,000 to $80,000 a year, and yes, some smaller teams make less and the bigger teams make more, but the average is about $75,000, so a good guess is between 60 to 80 thousand a year.

Marcos Ambrose began driving for Richard Petty Motorsports in 2011. From 2009-2010 he drove for JTG-Daugherty Racing. In 2008, Ambrose competed in 11 races for three different owners (Wood Brothers, Tad Geschickterand Michael Waltrip).

Pontiac sponsored teams for quite some time, as did Buick. The last official chatter I had heard directly from GM, as an employee of Chevrolet, was that they were talking about downsizing, and possibly even phasing out Pontiac. They were going to come up with a whole new product, and nameplate series. This was back in late 06. Saturn was breaking even, and for sale, Hummer was up for grabs, which, makes no sense because the H1 was discontinued, the H2, was simply a Tahoe, as is all other Gm midsized SUV's, Tahoe, H2, Escalade, Yukon, and that H3is a Canyon, or Dakota. So, to buy Hummer, you would still have to have Gm build, and supply, and.............Ok. Now, assuming that Pontiac goes nowhere, then, the chances, are still pretty slim. Back in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, well, until the COT, or car of tomorrow, they actually used the production car, or, eventually the shape at least, and people recognized the cars, as they were on the street, or, say, the new car lot. Now, they just wear a nameplate, and run that manufacturers motor, which, isn't even one the public can access, anymore. To say that NASCAR dealt the automotive manufacturers a very bad hand, would be an understatement. They seem to have forgotten a lot of their roots, and those who, behind the scenes helped them build excitement in their once, more popular, sport. Sad. They tried too hard, to force a good thing, in my opinion.

44 people have died through NASCAR crashes since it was established. The number has dramatically decreased since the founding of NASCAR, but it still remains a huge threat to those considering entering the sport.

Robert "Bootie" Barker is the crew chief for Max Papis in the Nascar Sprint Cup Series. Bootie Barker is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries he suffered from a car accident, back when he was a senior in high school.

The City/State/Country is called "Monaco", it's the only city, state, and country with the same name.

The Indianapolis Speedway's "Yard of Bricks" is the roughly 3' wide strip of bricks that marks the start/finish line at the track - 'yard' refers literally to it being a YARD wide.

At least, it is only a yard wide today. Back in 1909, the track had originally been paved in 3.2 million bricks. Some 90% of these had been made by the Wabash Valley Clay Company of northern Indiana. Over the years, various repairs and resurfacing projects replaced layers of brick with asphalt, and today, only "The Yard" remains.

The closest finish in the history of the American Race is arguably the first race in 1959, or the 2007 race. In the 1959 race, it took 3 days for the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing to declare Lee Petty as the winner. In 2007, Kevin Harvick edged out Mark Martin at the finish line to win by 0.02 seconds or two-one-hundredths of a second. To see the video of the finish just click on the link below.

They do not. I think only Formula 1 does to protect the crowd. They go well over 200mph. When Bill Elliott first went over 200 at Talladega back when, NASCAR's answer was the restrictor plate, used to slow the cars down.

Bill Elliott, 212 miles per hour at the Talladega qualifying in 1986.

Rusty Wallace also tested at Talladega for NASCAR in 2004 in an unrestricted car (no restrictor plate) and achieved a top speed of 228 MPH, and a one-lap average of 221 MPH.

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$250,000 may buy the car but it will not take you racing, in order to compete in 1 race it will cost roughly $1,000,000.00 after you factor in things such as a pit crew, crew chief, tires for the race ( up to 16 sets per race at a cost of $350-$450 each). Not to mention the tractor trailer to get the cars to the track ( yes I said cars as in 2 because you have to have a backup car ). So to tell the truth I am not sure you could go racing with just 1 million dollars, I guess that's why they call it a rich mans sport!

In the Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Reed Sorenson drives the #74 car on a limited basis.

There are many records for Formula 1 Drivers.

a. Most races entered - Rubens Barrichello

b. Most race wins - Michael Schumacher - 91 wins

c. Most race wins in a Season - Michael Schumacher - 2004 Season

d. Youngest Race winner - Sebastian Vettel - 2008 Italian GP

e. Most Pole Positions - Michael Schumacher - 68 pole starts

f. Most Fastest Laps - Michael Schumacher - 76

g. Total Podium Finishes - Michael Schumacher - 154 podiums

h. Most career points - 1369 points

i. Most Laps led in their career - 5108 laps

j. Doubles - Pole position and race win in the same race - Michael Schumacher - 40 races

k. Hat tricke - Pole, fastest lap and race win in the same race - Michael Schumacher - 22

l. Grand Chelem (Slam) - Led the entire race from pole and also fastest lap - Jim Clark - 8 times

m. Most F1 racing championships - Michael Schumacher - 7 times

n. Youngest F1 racing champion - Lewis Hamilton

• Richard Petty- 7 (1964, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979)
• Dale Earnhardt Sr- 7 (1980, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994)

A horse race in which the owner declares before the race how much the horse will be offered for sale after the race.

It depends on a variety of factors, such as the level of racing, the track being run at, and various bonuses and such.

At the lower levels of NASCAR like in it's Regional Series, race winners may get a few hundred dollars or so, while Sprint Cup race winners get hundreds of thousands (or even one to two million dollars at Daytona) though the amount varies by track.

22 percent of the whole ,the pole winner win the race. This takes place in races like NASCAR and DAYTONA . They are car races .

There really isn't an age that they go by but the driver has to be able to control the car good enough to race. Some drivers in NASCAR are 17 and 18 years old.

Richard Petty won the Nascar Winston Cup Series championship in 1974.

This is only an educated guess, but back in the early part of the 20th century, the main street in any given town was referred to as "the main drag". Since organized drag racing grew from street racing, if you challenged someone to race from one intersection to the next, you are racing on the "main drag", thus "Drag Racing". Now why the street in town was called the "main drag", well, that is another question to be answered elsewhere.

Old Skool Racer

A small bit of info, A fine levied by Nascar, in the thousands, Mcclaren was fined 100 million.Answer

Formula one has less sponsors but more money, nascar has more sponsor less money.

Granted formula one has great sponsors and more of an international following but the competition is more about the driver than people think.

As far as team budgets go, it's definetly f1. the big teams have budgets from 100- 250 MILLION. with 10 teams, that's a ridiculous amount of money. I would disagree and say that f1 also has a far bigger following. sure, nascar is big in the us, but f1 is everywhere. it is the third most watched sporting event in the world, and nascar is further down the list. F1 has far more money. No question.

• Road America (Wisconsin) - 4.048 miles (Nationwide Series only)
• Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (Montreal) - 2.71(Nationwide Series only)
• Talladega Superspeedway (Alabama) - 2.66
• Daytona International Speedway (Florida) - 2.5
• Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Indiana) - 2.5
• Pocono Raceway (Pennsylvania) - 2.5