The Daytona 500 wore the sports calendar during the busy presidents’ day weekend, but “Great American Race” still received a rating.
After waiting for an almost four hour rain delay, the 41 car field was resumed during the lights on Sunday and put it up against the NBA All-Star game. Despite the delay, the Daytona 500 managed to draw an average of 6,761 million viewers on Fox.
This increased by 13 percent from the 5.96 million who set up for last year, which was forced to Monday due to the weather, but down from the 8.17 million viewers who looked at the 2023 race held on a Sunday.
The 6.76 million viewers still made this year’s race the most looked at the presidents’ day weekend, and topped the 4.4 million that agreed to the NHL’s 4 nations face-off at ABC on Saturday night. Daytona 500 topped on 7,959 million viewers from 2: 05-2: 15 pm, shortly after the green flag dropped to start the race around 13:30
After two delays resumed the race for good about 6:20 and William Byron finally took the checkered flag a little after 21:30
It was the first race in NASCAR’s seven-year-old, 7.7 billion media rights agreements that include Fox, NBC Sports, Amazon and TNT Sports. The Cup series moves to Atlanta this weekend for Saturday’s ambetter Healthy 400.
Byron recorded his second victory in a row 500 for his 14th career victory while also produced the 10th victory of 500 for Hendrick Motorsports and broke a tie with small motorsports.
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