{"id":97177,"date":"2025-08-26T01:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97177\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:16:09","slug":"nascar-viewership-revealed-for-xfinity-series-race-at-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97177\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR viewership revealed for Xfinity Series race at Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Friday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/category\/nascar\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> Xfinity Series Wawa 250 at Daytona International Speedway had 1.092 million viewers on The CW, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jeff_gluck\/status\/1960117682499449159\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeff Gluck of The Athletic<\/a>. Xfinity viewership topped 1 million for the fifth consecutive race on The CW, continuing the strong viewership trend this season. <\/p>\n<p>This particular race was up 33 percent from last year\u2019s Daytona Xfinity race on USA Network. Parker Kligerman took the checkered flag Friday night at Daytona, taking over for the injured Connor Zilsich inside the No. 88 JR Motorports Chevrolet. <\/p>\n<p>Zilisch, who recently underwent surgery to repair his broken collarbone, started the race and then hopped out of the car at the first caution. Kligerman came out of the bullpen to lead 12 laps, piloting the car to its seventh victory of the season. <\/p>\n<p>While Kligerman was driving the car at the end, the win is technically Zilisch\u2019s. Kligerman, who has never officially won a Xfinity race, was OK with that. He allowed Zilisch to take the trophy, just as long he got to keep the checkered flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect to get a call from Dale Jr. on a day I was leaving to go on vacation,\u201d Kligerman said from Victory Lane. \u201cI hate the circumstances for Connor. He\u2019s an amazing, generational talent, and I feel honored to have gotten the call\u2026 Thank you to Justin Allgaier. He was a real teammate \u2014 we go way back and that meant a lot. And Sammy Smith gave us some great pushes so that helped a ton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a me thing that this will not be on Racing Reference at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parker Kligerman made it on Racing Reference<\/p>\n<p>Racing Reference made sure to give Kligerman some of the credit. \u201cDon\u2019t worry [Kligerman] \u2013 we gave you recognition where it\u2019s due,\u201d the stat website <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/racingreference\/status\/1959991038778483092\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kligerman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pkligerman\/status\/1960002191046984121\" rel=\"nofollow\">appreciated that one<\/a>. Now, anyone who didn\u2019t watch will know Zilisch had some help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHahaha,\u201d Kligerman responded, \u201cthank you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This past Friday\u2019s NASCAR Xfinity Series Wawa 250 at Daytona International Speedway had 1.092 million viewers on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-97177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}