Fireball Roberts Net Worth 2018: What is this NASCAR driver worth?
Fireball Roberts was a professional NASCAR racing driver. Roberts died of Complications due to racing crash on May 24, 1964, during the 1964 World 600, on July 2, 1964, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Roberts was born on January 20, 1929, in Tavares, Florida, Florida. This page examines Fireball Roberts’s net worth.
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Fireball Roberts Career and Earnings/Salary
Fireball Roberts raced in a total of 206 NASCAR cup races over a 15 year cup career, with 33 wins, 122 top tens, and 32 poles. Roberts’s best cup position was 2nd (1950 in NASCAR). Roberts began NASCAR cup racing with the 1950 in NASCAR (Daytona Beach Road Course). Roberts’s last cup race was the 1964 World 600 Coca-Cola 600 (Charlotte Motor Speedway), and last cup win was the 1964 (Augusta International Raceway).
Roberts is best known for these top achievements: 1962 Daytona 500 List of Daytona 500 winners, and 1958, 1963 in NASCAR Southern 500 (1950-2004) Past winners.
Roberts has won several awards, including the 1957 Sprint Cup Series NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver Award, Named one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers (1998), International Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee(1990), Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (1995), Florida Sports Hall of Fame inductee, and NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee(2014).
Fireball Roberts Net Worth 2018
NASCAR practically has two pay structures. There are the mega elite drivers, who get millions of dollars a year through performance bonuses and sponsorships. Meanwhile, the rest of NASCAR drivers receive significantly less. Newer drivers can receive as little as $50,000. More competitive drivers, on the other hand, can make between $200,000 and $500,000, including a base salary as well as either a cut of their prize money or a win bonus.
So what was NASCAR driver Fireball Roberts’s net worth at the time of death? Our estimate for Fireball Roberts’s net worth at death is:
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