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theprizefighter
Mark Barnett made a million dollars with his 81 contract with Suzuki. Highest payed racer at the time.
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motokiwi 6/2/2019 12:00am
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According to an online inflation calculator - that's 2.8 Mil in 2019 us dollars.
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mxnick 6/2/2019 12:12am
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theprizefighter wrote:
Mark Barnett made a million dollars with his 81 contract with Suzuki. Highest payed racer at the time.
over three or four years, though? Thats not a Million per year, if I remember correctly...
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mwr 6/2/2019 12:14am
6/2/2019 12:14am Edited Date/Time 6/2/2019 12:15am
I believe that million dollar contract was over the course of three years. And as previously mentioned, even if it wasnt, he still wouldn't be close to the big payouts for RC, etc

Edit: snarfed by mxnick!
theprizefighter 6/2/2019 7:32am
6/2/2019 7:32am
theprizefighter wrote:
Mark Barnett made a million dollars with his 81 contract with Suzuki. Highest payed racer at the time.
mxnick wrote:
over three or four years, though? Thats not a Million per year, if I remember correctly...
It was over ten years according to Barnett.

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SCR 6/2/2019 9:16am
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theprizefighter wrote:
Mark Barnett made a million dollars with his 81 contract with Suzuki. Highest payed racer at the time.
mxnick wrote:
over three or four years, though? Thats not a Million per year, if I remember correctly...
theprizefighter wrote:
It was over ten years according to Barnett.
I think Hannah advised him to request it be defered over 10 years.

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