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.

The NASCAR Air Force. By @Keselowski. Nearly all Sprint Cup drivers use private planes to. Privileged to see how important these aircraft are, and have seen. “We probably get as many aircrafts in just a few days than we do in an entire month.” And it’s not just NASCAR teams who are traveling in style. The official site of NASCAR, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Find NASCAR news, schedules. Drivers & Teams. 2016 Drivers; 2016 Teams. Private jet photos of NASCAR drivers and team owners. NASCAR Corporate Jet Fleet. These 3 jets are part of the NASCAR / International Speedway corporate fleet.

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. It’s a fly in community with it’s own airport.

Residents have aircraft hangars in the yard where most of us have garages. Martin can literally park his jet in the garage. The race teams operate larger planes to ferry the pit crews and team executives to the track. Roush Racing operates a fleet of planes, including a Boeing 737 and several smaller business jets. Dale Earnhardt, Inc.

Flies it’s pit crew on an Embraer 120, a mid-size turbo-prop that seats 30 passengers. Serial actress deepa venkat wedding photos. While cars have vanity license plates, NASCAR teams have vanity aircraft registration numbers. Dale Jr’s Learjet is N8JR, and Jeff Gordon’s Hawker is N24JG. The corporate Embraer at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. NASCAR has come to rely on private jet travel so much that many tracks are located right next to airports. Daytona International Speedway is located right next to Daytona Beach International Airport where private jets and commercial flights arrive daily.

While most tracks are not located so close to a major international airport, some tracks have built their own airports. Right next to Atlanta Motor Speedway sits Tara Field, a small general aviation airstrip that sees little traffic until race week, when more than 600 planes descend on this tiny airfield. However, some tracks are not as convenient, but when that happens expect the NASCAR drivers to come up with a solution.