Jasen Vinlove, USA TODAY Sports MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Kyle Larson’s trajectory is all upward. He won last week’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup race at Fontana, Calif., and remains solidly atop the series point standings. He is being tagged as stock car racing’s next superstar. But Larson, who has four top-two finishes in five races this season, watches his coins. For example, most of his air travel — in a time when many drivers own jets or rent jet rides to race weekends — is on commercial airlines.
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“I’ll fly commercial as much as I can, especially the West Coast stuff,” Larson said Friday. “I think commercial is better. The team plane — you have to stop for fuel. Commercial’s not bad.” Larson said flying on private planes is costly. “That’s a lot of money to be private flying, especially to the West Coast,” he said.
“Yeah, I’m cheap with my money when it comes to flying. And I like to rack up the miles so I can maybe get some free trips.” RELATED COVERAGE: Larson’s travel plans have evolved a bit with his success.
The Chip Ganassi Racing driver now ventures into first class, he said. Larson said Danica Patrick (he described her as “obviously a very wealthy person”) couldn’t understand two years ago why Larson would buy a $120 coach ticket when first class cost $500. “I’m going to save that money,” he said.
“But now I fly first class.” Jimmie Johnson, who followed Larson into the Martinsville Speedway media center and overheard his answers, offered the opinion that, because of Larson’s recent success, “His days of flying commercial are just about over.” PHOTOS: KYLE LARSON THROUGH THE YEARS.
Business travel can be a grind, But for NASCAR drivers and race teams who are on the road for 36 races per year travel is unavoidable. If these teams had to rely on commercial airline schedules travel would be a nightmare, if not a logistical impossibility. That’s why most of the top tier drivers own private jets, and race teams operate fleets of small aircraft to transport pit crew members and team executives to the racetrack each week. Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Owns a LearJet 60, which is the top of the LearJet line, and their largest jet. It’s a business jet that can seat up to 10 passengers. Thanks to the jet Earnhardt can leave his home in North Carolina and be at the racetrack in Daytona or Texas a couple of hours later -- about the time it would take to drive to a major airport and clear security. NASCAR rookie and former Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya also owns a LearJet 60. 2006 champion Jimmie Johnson owns a Learjet 31A, and Jeff Gordon owns a British Aerospace Hawker 800. Most of the drivers leave the flying to professional pilots, but Mark Martin is a licensed pilot who often pilots his own Cessna Citation. Martin lives in a unique community near Daytona Beach called Spruce Creek.
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