NASCAR Sprint Cup Round 4: Bristol

[mrfizz]

Originally Posted by gomick

Joe would be making good prizemoney for both series? Must be a little profit to keep him going?

I wouldn't have thought he makes much 'profit'. He probably pays himself a fair whack, but wouldn't we all? I wouldn't think the prizemoney covers much, certainly not NNS prize money anyway. I think i heard somewhere that all things considered it costs between $40,000 and $50,000 per race in consumables and fees etc, not including chassis, engines etc. To be honest i don't know how he does it.

[HJJ]

Joe's doin' pretty well $2.5 M on the Cup side last year.

http://www.racing-reference.info/driver/Joe_Nemechek

[gomick]

Be interesting to know how much it costs to run a cup car vs a nationwide car per race/season...

[mrfizz]

Well i kniw Joe has said that he could be reasonably competitive on $6m a year, thats half of a 'big' team.

Anyway, here are some usefull facts for Cup Series costs:

Cars cost $300,000 each (new) No used cars avail yet in Cup. Joe will have 4 or more by the end of the season.
Engines are $75,000 or more each race to lease. S & P teams might ust one for 2 races. Blow an engine and your done.
Tyres at $1500.00 a set, minimum 6 sets needed just to practice, qualify and race.
Entry fees are $4000,00 per event
Skeleton crew salary $5000.00 per event. Want a real pit crew? add another $5000.00.
Want a real spotter and not cousin Bob? add another $1000.
Hauler lease per year is $200,000. so thats $3500 an event.
Fuel at 4$ a gallon. lets see. North Carolina to Fontana CA is $4000.00 one way.
OOPs, wreck a car? 100 man hours plus parts. $50,000 to fix it or more.
Pay workers insurance, or their workers comp.
Facilities: A North Carolina rotten barn for $2000 a month or maybe something a bit nicer at $5000 a month.

All this for a 75,000 payout for that 35th place finish?

Joe Nemechek is probably skint!!

[MJ_N_09]

IIRC, he has additional help because he combined efforts with Jay Robinson, who still has money and likely equipment left over from his defunct team.

[gomick]

Does Joe run a successful business off track that funds his racing career?

[HJJ]

Originally Posted by mrfizz

Cars cost $300,000 each (new) No used cars avail yet in Cup. Joe will have 4 or more by the end of the season.

The previous COT could have been re-skinned with Gen 6 bodywork. I'm sure most of the large teams built new cars.

[MJ_N_09]

From all this information, I guess he won't be S&Ping for awhile, something he's been notorious for on the Cup side. He remains a backmarker there, but his NNS effort is quite competitive.

[mrfizz]

Originally Posted by MJ_N_09

From all this information, I guess he won't be S&Ping for awhile, something he's been notorious for on the Cup side. He remains a backmarker there, but his NNS effort is quite competitive.

Yes, i think his partnership with Robinson means he can run full time in Cup without S&Ping. His NNS effort does well against some better funded cars and teams. I think Joe is just one of those guys who would race his Granny to the shops. He just loves it. Plus having his own team may just provide a future for his son John who is in the K&N series and is quite promising so i hear.