How much money a NASCAR champion wins varies from race to race. Races have different payouts. It also depends on their contract.
For Nascar it's hard to say, but for the Daytona 500 you can win 1.5 million in that one race alone.
In 2011, Tony Stewart won the Sprint Cup Series championship. Including race winnings and bonuses, he earned $12,671,071.
No. It has happened in Indycars when Tom Sneva won the 1978 title without a race win, but never in NASCAR.
This depends on where they place in races. The more they win, the more they get.
60 million euros.
no one knows
The first champion was Red Byron back in 1949.
7 million plus
Three-time champion, Tony Stewart, never won at Darlington Raceway in the Nascar Cup Series. He did win one race in the Nationwide Series at Darlington.
Tony Stewart was the last driver to win the Nascar Cup Series championship prior to Jimmie Johnson, it was in 2005. Johnson has been the champion since 2006.
It depends on who their sponsors are and if they win, but on a normal basis they make about 6-10 million.
Jimmy Johnson came in first in 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup. His winnings were $17,673,977. Carl Edwards came in second with $4,585,792.