The Daytona 500 has rolled in as the most-watched sporting event of the weekend by TV numbers.
According to Sports Business Journal’s Adam Stern, FOX’s telecast of the Daytona 500 earned a 4.7 rating and 8.868 million viewers for Sunday’s Great American Race.
The mark beats out both the Olympics and the NBA All-Star weekend, according to Stern.
The Daytona 500 appears to be the most-viewed single sport telecast of the weekend, beating out @Olympics and @NBA All-Star.
➖ NASCAR notes that in 2019, the race did not go up against Olympics and that 2022 share, a slightly different metric than rating, was up 24% from 2019. pic.twitter.com/OrP7VgMpcr
— Adam Stern (@A_S12) February 23, 2022
The numbers of for the Daytona 500 are up from both 2021 and 2020, but around the same area as they were in 2019.
NASCAR’s next race will be at California on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. CT on FOX.
