---
title: "The Drive‘s $1.4 Billion Powerball Bonanza"
description: "Let The Drive be your financial planner."
date: "2016-01-12"
modified: "2016-01-12"
authors:
  - name: "Max Goldberg"
    job_title: "Associate Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-goldberg"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/1628/the-drives-1-4-billion-powerball-bonanza"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# The Drive‘s $1.4 Billion Powerball Bonanza

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/archive-images/lottery_hero_v5.jpg>)
*\<em\>www.thedrive.com</em>*

As you already know, the Powerball has been going off. The megamillions—sorry, make that *billions*—jackpot [has hit an all-time high of $1.5 billion](<https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/us/powerball-odds.html?_r=0>). The mind boggles. So, in the interest of perspective (and a healthy taste of anarchy), we've devised a compendium of irrelevant and decidely irresponsible points of reference. Here are a few ways to express the Powerball's insane $1.5 billion jackpot.

![winlotto\_crudeoil\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/winlotto_crudeoil_art.jpg>)
**pandemin/Getty Images**

• At today's pricing, the jackpot equates to 42.21 million barrels of crude oil. That's enough to fill the world’s largest tanker approximately 10 times.

![winlotto\_mclarens\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/winlotto_mclarens_art.jpg>)

• This year, McLaren will be building and shipping 45 [P1 GTRs](<https://cars.mclaren.com/P1-GTR>) ($3.36 million) to the U.S. You could buy them all, and you’d still have $1.25 billion left over. Which, we'll point out, is enough to build your own racetrack.

![winlotto\_jaylenogarage\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/winlotto_jaylenogarage_art.jpg>)
**Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images**

• [Jay Leno’s immaculately curated, 150-piece car collection](<https://www.nbc.com/jay-lenos-garage>) is estimated to be worth $50 million. You could have it 28 times over.

![winlotto\_limerock\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/winlotto_limerock_art.jpg>)
**Brian Cleary/Getty Images**

• You could buy a Family Membership to [Lime Rock Park Driver’s Club](<https://www.limerockclub.com/become-a-member/family-membership>) ($110,000) in [Connecticut ](<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lime+Rock+Park/@41.9304009,-73.393473,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e780c4cd3c7837:0xbdc2c69a7f084342>)for youself and 12,726 friends.

![winlotto\_daytonainternationalspeedwayseats\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/winlotto_daytonainternationalspeedwayseats_art.jpg>)
**Brian Cleary/Getty Images**

• Buy every ticket to the[ Daytona 500](<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lime+Rock+Park/@41.9304009,-73.393473,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e780c4cd3c7837:0xbdc2c69a7f084342>) (146,000 seats) for 53 years.

![winlotto\_toyotatacoma\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/winlotto_toyotatacoma_art.jpg>)

• At $30,795, you could buy 45,461 examples of the new [Toyota Tacoma TRD Off Road](<https://www.toyota.com/configurator/#!/build/step/summary/year/2016/series/tacoma/model/7568/exteriorcolor/01G3/interiorcolor/FD15/packages/option65/accessories/>). That's enough Taco to replace the entire NYPD’s vehicle fleet five times over.

![winlotto\_aircraftcarrier\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/winlotto_aircraftcarrier_art.jpg>)
**United States Navy/Wikipedia**

• Seven months (215 days) aboard a personal [aircraft carrier](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford>), where the daily operating fee is $6.5 million.

![winlotto\_nascarteam\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/winlotto_nascarteam_art.jpg>)
**Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images**

• The average [NASCAR Sprint Cup Series](<https://www.nascar.com/en_us/sprint-cup-series.html>) team is valued at $120 million, and there are currently 17 teams. The Powerball jackpot is enough buy 69 percent of the field. (Take that, restrictor plates.)

![winlotto\_uber\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/winlotto_uber_art.jpg>)
**Carl Court/Getty Images**

• The jackpot also equates to a 1/46 stake in [Uber](<https://www.uber.com/>). Which says more about the murky valuation game than anything else but, hey, whatever.

![winlotto\_dunkindonuts\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/winlotto_dunkindonuts_art.jpg>)
**David Dermer/Diamond Images/Getty Images**

• You could open 1,867 Dunkin Donuts. (*Gross.—Ed.*)

![winlotto\_wewin\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/winlotto_wewin_art.jpg>)
**Mike Guy/TheDrive.com**

• Or just give it all to *The Drive*'s editor, Mike Guy. (He could really use the cash.)

## Author
Before working at *The Drive*, Max Goldberg raced the streets of Westchester in an ambulance as a licensed Emergency Medical Technician. He has boundless enthusiasm.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/maxems>)