Benny Parsons Net Worth 2018: What is this NASCAR driver worth?
Benny Parsons was a professional NASCAR racing driver. Parsons died of Complications resulting from lung cancer, on January 16, 2007, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Parsons was born on July 12, 1941, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. This page examines Benny Parsons’s net worth.
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Benny Parsons Career and Earnings/Salary
Benny Parsons raced in a total of 526 NASCAR cup races over a 21 year cup career, with 21 wins, 283 top tens, and 20 poles. Parsons’s best cup position was 1st (1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series). Parsons began NASCAR cup racing with the 1963 NASCAR Grand National Series (Asheville-Weaverville Speedway). Parsons’s last cup race was the 1988 Atlanta Journal 500 (Atlanta Motor Speedway), and last cup win was the 1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Atlanta 500 (Atlanta Motor Speedway).
Parsons is best known for these top achievements: 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Sprint Cup Series Champion, 1968 ARCA Racing Series Champion, 1969 ARCA Racing Series Champion, 1975 Daytona 500 Daytona 500 Winner, 1980 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 Winner, 1969 Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 Winner, and 1982 Daytona 500 Pole Sitter.
Parsons has won several awards, including the 1965 ARCA Racing Series Rookie of the Year, Named one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers (1998), International Motorsports Hall of Fame (1994), Court of Legends at Charlotte Motor Speedway (1994), Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (2005), ESPN Emmy (1996), ACE award (1989), and NASCAR Hall of Fame (2017).
Benny Parsons Net Worth 2018
NASCAR basically has two salary tracks. One one hand, there are multi-million dollar earners, who earn millions anually through prize money, bonuses, and sponsorships. In contrast, the rest of NASCAR drivers receive much less. Young drivers can receive as little as 5 figures. Most mid-tier drivers, on the other hand, earn between $200,000 and $500,000, with a base salary in addition to either some percentage of their prize money or a success bonus.
So what was NASCAR driver Benny Parsons’s net worth at the time of death? Our estimate for Benny Parsons’s net worth at death is:
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