INDIANAPOLIS — Josef Newgarden's first Indianapolis 500 win earned him a record pay day.
The Team Penske driver will collect a check for $3.666 million at Monday night's Victory Celebration. The winner's prize comes from a total purse of $17,021,500.
Both the purse and the winner's payout are Indianapolis 500 records, according to IMS. The purse was nearly a million dollars larger than last year's total, and Newgarden's winner's check is over $500,000 more than Marcus Ericsson earned in 2022.
Ericsson took home $1.043 million for finishing second this year.
Benjamin Pedersen earned Rookie of the Year and got a $50,000 bonus to earn his team $215,300.
The average payout this year was also a record at $500,600.
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Here are the final amounts for each of the drivers:
- Josef Newgarden - $3.66 million
- Marcus Ericsson - $1.043 million
- Santino Ferrucci - $481,800
- Alex Palou - $801,500
- Alexander Rossi - $574,000
- Scott Dixon - $582,000
- Takuma Sato - $217,300
- Conor Daly - $512,000
- Colton Herta - $506,500
- Rinus VeeKay - $556,500
- Ryan Hunter-Reay - $145,500
- Callum Ilott - $495,500
- Devlin DeFransesco - $482,000
- Scott McLaughlin - $485,000
- Helio Castroneves - $481,500
- Tony Kanaan - $105,000
- Marco Andretti - $102,000
- Jack Harvey - $472,000
- Christian Lundgaard - $467,500
- Ed Carpenter - $102,000
- Benjamin Pedersen - $215,300 (includes $50,000 Rookie of the Year bonus)
- Graham Rahal - $105,500
- Will Power - $488,000
- Pato O'Ward - $516,500
- Simon Pagenaud - $465,500
- Agustin Canapino - $156,300
- Felix Rosenqvist - $278,300
- Kyle Kirkwood - $465,500
- David Malukas - $462,000
- Romain Grosjean - $462,000
- Sting Ray Robb - $463,000
- RC Enerson - $103,000
- Katherine Legge - $102,000
