Forum: HoseHeads Sprint Car General Forum (go)
Moderators: dirtonly  /  dmantx  /  hosehead

I've made a spreadsheet like this for the past few editions of the Knoxville Nationals. It includes a full breakdown of driver earnings through each day of the Nationals including contingency awards. The final tab features the total earned by each driver throughout the Nationals. The purse structure where I got this information can be found at https://www.knoxvilleraceway.com/Event/knoxville-nationals.

I did have to make some adjustments/guesses on some of the payouts. The Saturday E Main transfer money only goes up to fourth place on the Knoxville website, but they transferred seven cars. So I extended the transfer money to seventh place and then used the purse structure from 8th on down as listed on the website. This also applies to the Saturday night D Main, which transferred 5 cars instead of four cars. Any car that scratched from a race is listed as a DNS in the spreadsheet, with no payout money for that race included.

Enjoy:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zmcSVdzHHhot8WsJBwGaEwUAAIlb-KoJKUpiv9CnxHo/edit?usp=sharing

Ask Frank

Nice work. Thank you sir.

Thanks for posting.  I always find this very interesting.

I think I heard Tony B say at least once or twice how this was the "biggest purse in sprint car racing", during my 4 days down there. 

Great payouts.

However lots of teams lost big $$$ over the weekend figuring in travel - fuel/tolls, hotels-camping, food, race fuel -tires - wear and tear, etc. It takes deep pockets to try to make the show. I'd say if you didn't earn close to $20k it had better beeen a good learning experience.

"I was so loose out there that  could hardly get back
in line for the restart", Bobby Allen circa 1996 (?)
*****************************************************
"I'm not a driver, I am a racer." Steve Smith 19, 1992 

No kidding , but you still have to look at the bottom line.