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The 2024 Busch Light Clash at The Coliseum was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on February 3, 2024, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. Contested over 151 laps — extended from 150 laps due to an overtime finish , it was the first exhibition race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season.
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As part of the deal, Playoff races airing on NBC are lead-ins to NBC Sunday Night Football (after local news and NBC Nightly News, except for the final race of the season, when SNF follows the race). The Busch Clash alternates between Fox (2015–2016, 2022–2024) and FS1 (2014, 2017–2021).
The ratings were only eclipsed by the 2022 Winter Olympics on NBC, which had 10.1 million viewers. Locally, the race earned a 2.7 and was the highest rated non-Daytona 500 race in the Los Angeles market in six years. This was the highest rated Clash since 2016, which was the last year it was aired on FOX. [14]
Busch won 34 races in his 24-year NASCAR Cup Series career. In 2004, he became the first driver to ever win a championship under the first iteration of the playoff format NASCAR still uses today.
A lot of longtime fans remember what happened the last time NASCAR got the Hollywood bug. They lost The Rock and North WIlkesboro ... and got Fontana.
Lindsay Czarniak (2019–2020) Rotating/alternate NASCAR Race Hub host. Now works for CBS in the summer as the studio host for the Superstar Racing Experience and for NBC for the Olympics. She still works for Fox in the fall on their NFL coverage. Ricky Craven (2019–2020) Studio analyst/NASCAR Race Hub (retired from broadcasting after 2020 ...
NASCAR's exhibition race experiment paid off with a significant viewer increase. But more people watched the race at Daytona six years ago. NASCAR's experiment at Los Angeles Coliseum nets most ...