Edit: 2013 Daytona 500 results can be found here. The 2013 Daytona 500 purse is here.
Daytona 500 2012: Purse, Winnings For NASCAR’s Biggest Race
Winning the Daytona 500 results in a very lucrative payday, as you probably can guess. But just starting the Daytona 500 has plenty of benefits, too.
The record $19.1 million purse for Monday night’s NASCAR season opener paid $1.59 million to race winner Matt Kenseth, but it also paid a healthy $267,637 to last-place finisher David Ragan.
Most drivers made somewhere between $300,000-$400,000, though there was a lot of prize money for the top three finishers in particular.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. earned $1.1 million for finishing second – an extra $298,000 than if he had not edged Greg Biffle at the line.
Biffle, though, won’t go home empty handed. He gets $804,163 for finishing third.
Here is the purse money for each driver in the Daytona 500 (some amounts are higher than others due to participation in NASCAR’s contingency sponsor programs):
- Matt Kenseth $1,589,387
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. $1,102,175
- Greg Biffle $804,163
- Denny Hamlin $702,091
- Jeff Burton $559,550
- Paul Menard $427,900
- Kevin Harvick $415,261
- Carl Edwards $403,466
- Joey Logano $346,063
- Mark Martin $323,313
- Clint Bowyer $339,002
- Martin Truex Jr. $535,052
- Marcos Ambrose $341,858
- Bobby Labonte $331,196
- Dave Blaney $296,513
- Tony Stewart $379,025
- Kyle Busch $341,821
- Terry Labonte $292,200
- Tony Raines $292,763
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr. $304,275
- Ryan Newman $336,221
- Landon Cassill $319,945
- David Gilliland $309,335
- Regan Smith $332,421
- Casey Mears $304,746
- David Reutimann $309,335
- Elliott Sadler $305,788
- Joe Nemechek $287,363
- Kasey Kahne $297,988
- Michael McDowell $292,175
- Jamie McMurray $318,608
- Brad Keselowski $322,295
- Aric Almirola $320,986
- AJ Allmendinger $328,325
- Trevor Bayne $283,200
- Juan Pablo Montoya $312,391
- David Stremme $282,075
- Danica Patrick $281,715
- Kurt Busch $277,913
- Jeff Gordon $317,549
- Robby Gordon $268,150
- Jimmie Johnson $327,149
- David Ragan $267,637
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