Herb Thomas Net Worth 2018: What is this NASCAR driver worth?
Herb Thomas was a professional NASCAR racing driver. Thomas died of Heart attack, on August 9, 2000. Thomas was born on April 6, 1923, in Olivia, North Carolina, United States. This page examines Herb Thomas’s net worth.
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Herb Thomas Career and Earnings/Salary
Herb Thomas raced in a total of 228 NASCAR cup races over a 10 year cup career, with 48 wins, 156 top tens, and 39 poles. Thomas’s best cup position was 1st (1951 in NASCAR; 1953 in NASCAR). Thomas began NASCAR cup racing with the 1949 NASCAR Strictly Stock Series 1949 NASCAR Strictly Stock Series Race 1 (Charlotte Speedway). Thomas’s last cup race was the 1962 First Union 400 (North Wilkesboro Speedway), and last cup win was the 1956 (Merced Fairgrounds).
Thomas is best known for these top achievements: 1951 in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series List of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champions, 1953 in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series List of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champions, 1951 Southern 500, 1954 Southern 500, 1955 Southern 500 Southern 500 (1950-2004) Past winners, NASCAR’s First Two-Time Champion, Led Sprint Cup Series in Wins 3 times (1952 in NASCAR, and 1953 in NASCAR, 1954).
Thomas has won several awards, including the International Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee (1994), NASCAR Hall of Fame Inductee (Class of 2013), and Named one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers (1998).
Herb Thomas Net Worth 2018
Auto racing basically has two pay structures. There are multi-million dollar earners, who get millions of dollars a year through prize money, bonuses, and sponsorships. However, the rest of the drivers receive much less. Young drivers can bring in as little as 5 figures. More successful drivers, on the other hand, bring in between $200,000 and $500,000, including a base salary plus either some percentage of their prize money or a performance bonus.
So what was NASCAR driver Herb Thomas’s net worth at the time of death? Our estimate for Herb Thomas’s net worth at death is:
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