It’s still a ton of money.
But compared to last weekend’s Daytona 500, NASCAR Cup Series drivers will be racing for peanuts this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
The purse for Sunday’s Ambetter Health 400 sits at $11,055,250.
The good news: That’s up from $9,137,793 for the same event last year.
The bad news: It’s well below last Sunday’s purse at Daytona International Speedway, which broke the sport’s record at $30,331,250, an 8% increase from 2024. So Atlanta’s $11 million won’t make the eyes bulge the same way.
Remember, that pool will be split among all the teams.
NASCAR no longer announces the exact payout the winner receives. The last time it revealed those figures for the Great American Race was 2015, when Joey Logano sped into Victory Lane and collected $1.5 million of an $18 million purse.
The winner’s prize has obviously gone up in the last decade.
Think 2025 Daytona 500 champion William Byron is enjoying himself this week? Yes.
He’ll look to make it two in a row, as he joins 38 other entries in Atlanta Sunday. Daniel Suarez enters as the race’s defending champion. It is scheduled for 3 p.m. and will air on Fox.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Daytona 500 payout dwarfs 2025 Atlanta NASCAR race purse
