Cotton Owens Net Worth 2018: What is this NASCAR driver worth?
Cotton Owens was a professional NASCAR racing driver. Owens died on June 7, 2012, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. Owens was born on May 21, 1924, in Union, South Carolina, United States. This page examines Cotton Owens’s net worth.
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Cotton Owens Career and Earnings/Salary
Cotton Owens raced in a total of 160 NASCAR cup races over a 15 year cup career, with 9 wins, 84 top tens, and 10 poles. Owens’s best cup position was 2nd (1959). Owens began NASCAR cup racing with the 1950 race (Daytona Beach Road Course). Owens’s last cup race was the 1964 race (Orange Speedway), and last cup win was the 1964 Capital City 300 (Richmond International Raceway).
Owens is best known for these top achievements: 1953-1954 Modified Tour champion, 1957 Daytona Beach Road Course winner, and 1966 Grand National championship car owner (David Pearson (NASCAR driver)).
Owens has won several awards, including the National Motorsports Press Association’s Hall of Fame inductee (1970), Named one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers (1998), International Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee (2008), South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame inductee (2009), and NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee (2013).
Cotton Owens Net Worth 2018
NASCAR practically has two salary tracks. One one hand, there are elite drivers, who pull in millions of dollars anually through sponsorships and performance money. In contrast, the rest of NASCAR competitors receive quite a bit less. Young drivers can bring in as little as $50,000. Most mid-tier drivers, meanwhile, bring in between $200,000 and $500,000, with a base salary in addition to either some percentage of their prize money or a win bonus.
So what was NASCAR driver Cotton Owens’s net worth at the time of death? Our estimate for Cotton Owens’s net worth at death is:
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