Somewhat overlooked in the great story of Trevor Bayne's upset Daytona 500 victory on Sunday was that the 20-year-old is now rich.
Well, richer than you or I, at least. Ca-CHING!
The Daytona 500 purse was nearly $18.7 million, and the winner took home a healthy $1.46 million of that. Of course, drivers don't get to keep 100 percent of their winnings – typically, they are awarded somewhere between 30 and 50 percent of the prize money in addition to their base salary, with the team keeping the rest.
Bayne is a rookie, so he probably wasn't in position to negotiate for anywhere close to 50 percent of the prize money. But even assuming he got one-third of it, that's still more than $480,000.
Not bad for a dude who began the weekend as a teenager.
Last-place JJ Yeley, who was only in the race for 10 laps before his motor blew, earned $268,550.
Anyway, here's how Bayne and the other NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers divided up the Daytona 500's $18.7 million purse:
- Trevor Bayne: $1,462,563
- Carl Edwards: $1,081,413
- David Gilliland: $831,061
- Bobby Labonte: $667,769
- Kurt Busch: $582,077
- Juan Pablo Montoya: $454,064
- Regan Smith: $414,328
- Kyle Busch: $393,314
- Paul Menard: $327,413
- Mark Martin: $318,413
- AJ Allmendinger: $309,463
- Bill Elliott: $324,978
- Tony Stewart: $305,863
- David Ragan: $350,188
- Terry Labonte: $334,263
- Robby Gordon: $313,211
- Clint Bowyer: $315,813
- Jamie McMurray: $335,003
- Martin Truex Jr.: $341,963
- Steve Wallace: $291,638
- Denny Hamlin: $300,538
- Ryan Newman: $297,013
- Joey Logano: $290,363
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.: $350,813
- Kasey Kahne: $311,719
- Dave Blaney: $304,736
- Jimmie Johnson: $300,713
- Jeff Gordon: $287,588
- Brad Keselowski: $310,742
- David Reutimann: $318,219
- Brian Vickers: $313,861
- Travis Kvapil: $304,242
- Andy Lally: $282,863
- Matt Kenseth: $320,668
- Greg Biffle: $289,713
- Jeff Burton: $311,451
- Marcos Ambrose: $312,414
- Robert Richardson Jr.: $270,313
- Joe Nemechek: $292,998
- Michael Waltrip: $282,113
- Brian Keselowski: $273,663
- Kevin Harvick: $300,013
- JJ Yeley: $268,550