Darrell Waltrip Net Worth

Darrell Waltrip Net Worth and career earnings: Darrell Waltrip is an American motorsports analyst, author, national television broadcaster, and former race car driver who has a net worth of $25 million dollars. Darrell Waltrip was born in Owensboro, Kentucky on February 5, 1947. Waltrip is a 3-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, (1981, 1982, 1985), a 3-time NASCAR Cup Series runner-up, (1979, 1983, 1986), winner of the 1989 Daytona 500, and the first 5-time winner of the Coca-Cola 600, the Series' longest race (1978, 1979, 1985, 1988, 1989), a first for any driver of all time. He has a modern NASCAR series record of 22 top five finishes in 1983 and 21 top five finishes in 1981 and 1986. Waltrip is the winner of 84 NASCAR Cup Series races, including 12 wins at Bristol Motor Speedway, seven of which were consecutive wins beginning in 1981, a track and Series' record for any driver, all time. Waltrip's 84 wins places him second only to Jeff Gordon for the most wins in the modern era of NASCAR. Waltrip won 59 NASCAR Cup Series pole positions, (second all-time), including 35 on short tracks, and 8 on road courses, (both all-time highs for any driver, all time). He has 271 top-five finishes, and 390 top-ten finishes He raced 237,773 laps, 280,788 miles, led 23,134 laps, and won $19,886,666.00, in posted earnings. He competed in 809 NASCAR Cup series races, spanning 29 years, and four different decades and still holds many NASCAR records, more than a decade after his retirement as an active driver.