TV News: Weekend TV Ratings from Daytona
Fox TV earned 8.173 million viewers for Sunday’s Daytona 500, down 7.84% from 8.868 million viewers last year.
The Race was the most-watched show of the weekend on TV and peaked with 10.1M viewers.
The NASCAR Cup 150-mile qualifiers, the Xfinity race and the Truck race had mixed results as shown below.
All NASCAR Series continue to suffer from a low percentage of viewers in the all-important 18-49 age group – about 1/5th of their viewers are of the age that advertisers desire.
Rating Data
| Network | Event | Location | Total Viewers |
18-49 Viewers |
Ratio: 18-49 Yr Old/ Total Viewers |
2023 Rating | 2022 Rating | Rating % Chg. | 2022 Network |
2022 Viewers |
2022 18-49 Viewers |
Viewers % Chg |
| FOX | NASCAR Daytona 500 | Daytona | 8,173,000 | 1,811,000 | 22% | 4.37 | 4.70 | -7.02% | FOX | 8,868,000 | 1,948,000 | -7.84% |
| FS1 | NASCAR 300 Xfinity race | Daytona | 1,686,000 | 336,000 | 20% | 0.93 | 0.87 | +6.90% | FS1 | 1,484,000 | 253,000 | +13.61% |
| FS1 | NASCAR Cup 150-Mile Duels | Daytona | 1,535,000 | 329,000 | 21% | 0.88 | 0.89 | -1.12% | FS1 | 1,457,000 | 291,000 | +5.35% |
| FS1 | NASCAR Truck race | Daytona | 1,027,000 | 246,000 | 24% | 0.60 | 0.63 | -4.76% | FS1 | 1,016,000 | 235,000 | +1.08% |