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I have answered this question already, short version: varies from team to team.

Here is the answer else where in the category. There are several schools of thought and facts, many lessor teams average between $30,000 to $50,000, middle range teams $40,000 to $70,000, top teams $60,000 to $90,000, A few even more, but they are the best of the best. This is a hard question to give exactitudes, the team owner(s) and sponsors determine the wages for crew members, with great sponsors comes huge money.

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It depend on a number of things, whether your new or seasoned, your function or involvement, position, how good the crewmember is, usually wages are kept tight-liped but I know of 1 who gets $1250 a race for performing a perticular task with-in the crew, and 1 other who gets $700 a race, I also know a crewchief who gets $20,000 a month, again as in crewmembers, crewchiefs wages differ from team to team.

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Crew members is too general a term. Each has a special job, and like any job, it depends upon your experience and aptitude in the position. Assume a general crew member that does between round maintenance to earn between 35-50K/yr. They often share in the winnings as a bonus.

Crew Chiefs are a matter of private contracts, and are better paid, again, it really depends on the performance level a Crew Chief can offer. Top tier Crew Chiefs can earn 250K+/yr. (more for the best, less for the rest)

A typical race-ready car (Top Fuel or Fuel Funny Car) is roughly 250-300K, but that just gets you one car, with parts for 1 lap of racing.

The real cost is in maintaining these vehicles. Each car will run 4 times in qualifying, and then if they qualify for the race, there is 4 rounds of racing. If a car makes it to the final round of competition, it will have run 8 laps total. At a 1,000 ft. per lap, that's just 8,000 ft. total. These cars have heavy parts attrition in clutch discs, pistons, bearings, fuel...these all amount to a very expensive sport for such a brief time on track, but in-return, you get blistering performance.

The common number thrown around is that the top teams spend over $3 million dollars, per car, to attend the 24 events across the US that comprises the NHRA Mello Yello tour.

With so many classes in Drag Racing, it's tough to answer this question, so this answer pertains to the two nitro classes at the top of the performance ladder.

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it depends if you win or not sometimes they make up to 500.00 a race

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it is a hobbie not a business

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$85,000.

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