UPDATE: Despite a Daytona 500 washout, FOX scored a slight increase in viewership for its portion of the NASCAR Cup Series season.
NASCAR races on FOX and FS1 averaged 3.37 million viewers this season, a figure that includes the postponed Daytona 500 — up 1% from last season, when Daytona was run as scheduled (3.34M). Fox Sports said Tuesday that this is the first time it has scored a year-over-year increase in a season where Daytona was rained out.
The ten races on the FOX broadcast network averaged 4.01 million, down 3% from last year. (Excluding Daytona both this year and last, the FOX races averaged 3.77 million — up 4% from last year’s 3.62 million.)
FS1 made up for that decline with a double-digit increase for its six races, averaging 2.39 million — up 13% from last year’s 2.12 million.
ORIGINAL POST: Fox Sports says that their portion of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series had an average of 3,369,000 viewers. That is a 1% increase over 2023 despite the postponement of the Daytona 500.
The six Cup races on FS1 averages 2,389,000 viewers, up 14% over last year.
The nine races on FOX were up 4%, excluding the Daytona 500.
🚨Weather couldn’t rain on the @NASCARonFOX parade this year!
For the first time since 2001, the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season on FOX & FS1 was up year-over-year, despite a rain-postponed Daytona 500 📈 pic.twitter.com/f8zjgCiYAS
— FOX Sports PR (@FOXSportsPR) June 11, 2024