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Pit Crew Salaries Just something I thought to share with the group. Read the second story concerning a Michael Waltrip tire changer who was fired. I realize they have other duties, but I was surprised at the salary no matter what the duties.

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Could almost buy a house on Lake Norman with that kind of dough. The cause of- and solution to- all of life's problems. I remember reading somewhere that an average F1 crewmen makes , USD. I'll try to find the link. ESPN reported, 50k base, 97k hazard over the wall and 13k for training.

Darth Airbox View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries Visit Homepage View Articles. I think IndyCar crewmen just get a hotel stipend. TimmyZ1 View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Pit Crew Job Responsibilities and Salaries

Can someone answer me this question. Has Indycar gone to just pure pitcrew teams like the big boys at Hendrick, Roush, etc? I was under the impression the OTW guys in Indycar are also shop guys whereas in Cup most teams have gone to a pure pit team group.

Very few are mechanics, most are just former athletes and its there full time job to train and pit the car. I was surprised to see the high salary on the MWR guy also but it appears he's doing both shop and pit crew work. View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles. Originally Posted by TimmyZ1. I went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows in less than 24 hours. Team members are paid, with a few exceptions in the smaller teams. The salary I am sure is modest.

Just something I thought to share with the group. I was either going to win or i was not going to finish at all Originally Posted by slompappy. A guy came on the board a couple years ago saying he was a crew member but it was his last year because he could make more at the local Chevy dealership and stay home in the weekends. Every race I run in is in preparation for the Indianapolis Indy is the most important thing in my life. It is what I live for.

Everything I ever wanted in my life, I found inside the walls of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Jakester View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles. Originally Posted by 11rowsof3. And for everyone making fun of Gene Haas that he doesn't know what he was getting into with F NASCAR is closer to the level of money spending lunacy in F1 than many of you would care to admit.

MAKE AMERICA GRATE AGAIN! Hitokiri View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles. Originally Posted by Darth Airbox.

Originally Posted by Hitokiri. I remember years back I went to the Milwaukee Mile during practice. During the midday break I walked over to McDonadl's across the street. I saw there 3 crew members eating Big Macs. I felt sad for them for some reason. Racewknd View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles. I know an asst. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win.

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It is a bit. Remember Bruno Junqueira at Sonoma in complaining how his pit crew were so slow because they were volunteers? I've also heard the guys sleeping 8 guys in a double room in a seedy hotel. Want to be an IndyCar pit crewman? Bring your sleeping bag! That's not to take anything away from these guys though, they're real troopers and love the sport.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. Blood-1 View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles. By the standards of US pro sports they could plausibly be way higher.

In IndyCar as long as they get the wheel on smoothly who cares the tires are already there and you're waiting for fuel, you don't need to hire a guy just to do that. Even in F1 you're responsible for roughly one small action. Many of the NASCAR pit guys also hire themselves out as a team or individually and do stops for Xfinity and Truck series teams. That being said, there are a few Cup teams that still haven't gone the specialization route and still have their mechanics doing the pit stops as well.

In Indycars, it is the guys and occasional gal that works on the car also doing the pit stops. As far as the money in Indycar goes, now that the season is only about six months long, more and more people are getting out of it because it doesn't make any sense financially to only be employed six months out of the year.

Most of the people I know have. On a side note, a friend of mine who was a "road warrior" for a couple different teams back in the '90's and early 's. He used to come out of retirement to do pit stops for the every year. Originally Posted by Blood IowaBoyinIndy View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles. Two stories about how life exists for those who are not drivers or team owners in racing - When Formula One was racing at IMS I met a crew member of the Jaguar team.

He had been on the team for a number of years and was near He told me that it was his last year in F1 because "he travelled all of the time but never got to see anything, never was home long enough to his see his family, and he could make as much money driving a lorry around England" as he did being on a team. A friend of my uncle caught the NASCAR fever bug and ended up driving a semi for a race team. We had dinner with him and he looked exhausted. It was BY weekend when it was in August and he hadn't seen his apartment in Charlotte since Mother's Day.

Yes he made quite a bit of money and a lot of his expenses were paid for but he never had time to spend any of it or enjoy it because they were on the road all of the time. His only friends were fellow team members - the people that he roamed the highways with - because he no longer saw anyone else. For them it started in January to pick up the new or refurbished semis every year and only ended in late November. He only did it for a few years too.

DavidM View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries Visit Homepage View Articles. Indy View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles. I would do it once for free, and every year for the whole month of May for a steep discount on my regular monthly salary.

I was under the impression the OTW guys in Indycar are also shop guys Djski View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles. Mindervillain View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles.

How much money does the average Nascar pit crew member make a year

The Official who spends his her days working in the tech garage and coordinating with the teams on pit lane during practice, then puts on his fire suit to work pit lane during the race, after which he spends several hours doing tear-down might, on a good weekend, clear bucks.

E Nasty View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles. I recall a story that ran in the Chicago Tribune or Indy Star during Ganassi's first run of 4 CART titles that his crew had less base pay than other big budget teams Penske, Newman-Haas, Green, Rahal, Patrick, etc..

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