{"id":960,"date":"2009-02-09T10:06:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T06:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2009-08-20T10:53:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:53:02","slug":"nascars-highest-earning-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR&#8217;s Highest-Earning Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NASCAR&#8217;s track attendance and revenue may be stalling, but top drivers&#8217; paychecks continued to climb last year, thanks to large, multiyear sponsorship deals and heavy spending on apparel and gear by loyal fans. Overall, earnings for the top 10 drivers were $180 million, up 4.7% from our previous list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Winning is not always the most important factor to making money. Top drivers generate between 8% and 31% of their earnings from the track. The rest comes from salary, licensing and sponsorships&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/02\/09\/highest-paid-drivers-business-sports-nascar09_0209_drivers.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR&#8217;s track attendance and revenue may be stalling, but top drivers&#8217; paychecks continued to climb last year, thanks to large, multiyear sponsorship deals and heavy spending on apparel and gear by loyal fans. Overall, earnings for the top 10 drivers were $180 million, up 4.7% from our previous list. Winning is not always the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}