Kyle Larson’s victory in Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway posted 4.359 million viewers, FOX announced Tuesday.
That represents a 9% increase over the 3.991 million who tuned in for last year’s spring race at Las Vegas. Viewership peaked with 5.204 million viewers from 6:45-7 p.m. ET. The race ranked as the most-watched sports event of this past weekend, continuing a string of impressive showings for the first three races of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season on FOX.
The Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas served as a strong follow-up to the weekend prior’s thrilling finish in the Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Daniel Suarez’s victory garnered 4.464 million viewers on FOX, up 33% over last year’s race at Atlanta.
Kyle Larson puts up dominant performance at Las Vegas
At Las Vegas, there was no thrilling finish — only dominance. Larson led 181-of-267 laps en route to winning his second consecutive race at Las Vegas and 24th of his Cup Series career.
Tyler Reddick served as the only real competition to Larson at Las Vegas. Reddick finished behind Larson at the end of Stages 1 and 2, as well as at the end of the race as Reddick made a charge to the front within the last 15 laps. Reddick got as close as one car length with three laps remaining but couldn’t execute the pass to steal the win from Larson.
“I knew Tyler was going to be the guy to beat from the first stage,” Larson said after the race, via NASCAR.com. “He was really fast there. I was hoping those guys were going to get racing a little bit longer behind me because I felt like it was going to time out where he was running really hard and getting the tow to catch me at the end.
“Thankfully, [I] was able to air block him a couple laps and get him tight. I thought him and [23XI Racing teammate] Bubba [Wallace] were going to get working together again to build a run, so I was happy that didn’t happen. But all in all, such a great job by this Hendrick Cars Chevy team and just their execution, pit road, restarts — all that was great. Cool to get a win here at Vegas again. Back-to-back, swept all the stages again. Can’t ask for much more.”
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