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NASCAR ratings revealed for Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway

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Apr 6, 2025; Darlington, South Carolina, USA; NASCAR Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin (11) leads the restart over driver Tyler Reddick (45) during the Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images

FOX Sports released the ratings for the NASCAR Cup Series Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway. The race, which aired on FS1, had 2,517,000 viewers, a 15 percent increase from last year’s equivalent weekend on FS1 (2,191,000 viewers at Martinsville).

The ratings for the Darlington race are also a five percent increase from last year’s FS1 average of 2,389,000 viewers. It peaked at 3,099,000 viewers from 6:15 to 6:30 p.m. ET and was the most-watched cable telecast on Sunday.

Over 2.5 million NASCAR fans watched Denny Hamlin win his second consecutive race. Hamlin won the race after William Byron led for 243 laps. “I think at Richmond I led all but 13 laps and had a flat tire at the end. I get how it feels. It sucks. Only I finished 20-something that day. It’s painful,” Hamlin told reporters during his post-race press conference on Sunday.

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“When you can get out front at this track, I can tell you, it feels like you’re running qualifying speeds. When I was running 20th, where we pitted early, others didn’t, back to 20th, it was like, What happened? The aerodynamics just take over. Yeah, it’s bad back there. Yeah, for William, he probably was running 75, 80 percent probably all day. You’re able to do that when you’re out front.”

The Darlington race was throwback weekend, and Denny Hamlin drove in the Carl Edwards paint scheme. Hamlin explained why he didn’t do a backflip (something Edwards did after every win in his career) once the race ended.

“I probably would break the back of my head because I wouldn’t even get full 180 flip, so… He’s way more athletic than I am in that sense,” Hamlin explained. “I just told him that it was an honor to carry the scheme because truthfully me and Carl probably talk more now or have talked more now that he’s out of the sport, we’re no longer teammates. That has been my relationship with most of my teammates, that the relationship grows after they’re gone.”