NASCAR Food City 500 Prize Money: How much is the winner expected to make at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2025?

After the Goodyear 400, the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season heads to the Bristol Motor Speedway for the 2025 Food City 500.

The season’s ninth race is expected to be exciting as the Next Gen car will run for the seventh time at the Bristol Motor Speedway. All drivers taking the field will be racing to win Sunday’s (April 13) 500-lap race at the 0.533-mile-shot concrete oval track.

The Food City 500 winner will receive monetary rewards. In 2025, the Bristol Spring Cup race boasts a prize pool of $11,055,250.

Live action of the 2025 Bristol race will be broadcast live on FS1 and PRN radio on Sunday at 3 p.m. ET.

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What is the prize money for the Food City 500 2025?

All 38 drivers participating in NASCAR’s top-tier series will compete for monetary incentives this weekend in Bristol, Tennessee.

Renowned NASCAR journalist Bob Pockrass posted on X the total prize pool that will be up for grabs this weekend in Bristol, Tennessee:

“Purses for Bristol weekend include all payouts, all positions, contingency awards, year/end point fund contributions and for Cup, payout to Charter teams for participating and historical performance: Cup: $11,055,250 Xfinity: $1,651,939 Truck: $782,900.”

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Food City 500 Prize Money Breakdown: How much will the winner make at the Bristol Motor Speedway?

According to NASCAR journalist Bob Pockrass, the 2025 Food City 500 winner is likely to receive between eight and 10 percent of the total purse.

According to this assumption, this year’s Food City 500 winner at Bristol will likely get eight to 10 percent of the overall prize money of $11,055,250, which means a check of around $884,420 to $1,105,525.

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Explore the 2025 Bristol Spring NASCAR Cup Series payout per position

After deducting the winner's money from the total prize money of $11,055,250, the remaining amount will be divided among the charter teams according to their finishing positions in the race, charter status, etc.

With the start of the charter system in NASCAR, individual payouts per finishing position are no longer published.

NASCAR Cup Series action begins with practice and qualifying on Saturday (April 12) before the main event on Sunday afternoon. Practice and qualifying actions will be available on Prime.

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List of Bristol Spring NASCAR Cup Series race winners

Denny Hamlin after winning the 2024 Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway - Source: Imagn

Following is the list of the Bristol Spring NASCAR Cup Series race winners:

1. 1961: Joe Weatherly
2. 1962: Jim Paschal
3. 1963: Fireball Roberts
4. 1964: Fred Lorenzen
5. 1965: Junior Johnson
6. 1966: Dick Hutcherson
7. 1967: David Pearson
8. 1968: David Pearson
9. 1969: Bobby Allison
10. 1970: Donnie Allison
11. 1971: David Pearson
12. 1972: Bobby Allison
13. 1973: Cale Yarborough
14. 1974: Cale Yarborough
15. 1975: Richard Petty
16. 1976: Cale Yarborough
17. 1977: Cale Yarborough
18. 1978: Darrell Waltrip
19. 1979: Dale Earnhardt
20. 1980: Dale Earnhardt
21. 1981: Darrell Waltrip
22. 1982: Darrell Waltrip
23. 1983: Darrell Waltrip
24. 1984: Darrell Waltrip
25. 1985: Dale Earnhardt
26. 1986: Rusty Wallace
27. 1987: Dale Earnhardt
28. 1988: Bill Elliott
29. 1989: Rusty Wallace
30. 1990: Davey Allison
31. 1991: Rusty Wallace
32. 1992: Alan Kulwicki
33. 1993: Rusty Wallace
34. 1994: Dale Earnhardt
35. 1995: Jeff Gordon
36. 1996: Jeff Gordon
37. 1997: Jeff Gordon
38. 1998: Jeff Gordon
39. 1999: Rusty Wallace
40. 2000: Rusty Wallace
41. 2001: Elliott Sadler
42. 2002: Kurt Busch
43. 2003: Kurt Busch
44. 2004: Kurt Busch
45. 2005: Kevin Harvick
46. 2006: Kurt Busch
47. 2007: Kyle Busch
48. 2008: Jeff Burton
49. 2009: Kyle Busch
50. 2010: Jimmie Johnson
51. 2011: Kyle Busch
52. 2012: Brad Keselowski
53. 2013: Kasey Kahne
54. 2014: Carl Edwards
55. 2015: Matt Kenseth
56. 2016: Carl Edwards
57. 2017: Jimmie Johnson
58. 2018: Kyle Busch
59. 2019: Kyle Busch
60. 2020: Brad Keselowski
61. 2021: Joey Logano
62. 2022: Kyle Busch
63. 2023: Christopher Bell
64. 2024: Denny Hamlin