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IndyCar sees 50% viewership drop on FOX after going face to face with NASCAR
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IndyCar sees 50% viewership drop on FOX after going face to face with NASCAR

Motorsports March 25, 2025
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Each IndyCar race shall be featured on the first FOX community this yr and with heavy promotion, the sequence opened its new season with 1.417 million viewers for St. Petersburg. This was a powerful 45% soar from the earlier yr on NBC.

Sadly, that momentum didn’t carry over into Thermal, which clashed immediately with the NASCAR Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on FOX Sports activities 1. The 2 occasions began inside minutes of one another, making a head-to-head matchup between the open-wheel and inventory automotive racing divisions. 

The scenario was compounded by the truth that the IndyCar broadcast went down for simply over 20 minutes in the midst of the race after FOX misplaced its sign. This was on account of an influence outage that occurred inside a manufacturing truck. Through the delay, the NASCAR race was simulcast on each FOX and FS1.

NASCAR, F1 and IndyCar viewership for the weekend

IndyCar ended up with 704,000, which was a 50.3% drop from the season-opener at St. Pete. Of notice, final yr’s IndyCar race at Thermal, which was a non-points exhibition occasion, had round 788,000 watching on NBC and didn’t conflict with that weekend’s NASCAR occasion. The autumn-off between the primary two races of the yr is the largest IndyCar has seen since 2018 when it misplaced practically 80% between the season-opener on ABC and the second spherical of the yr on NBCSN.

The Cup race at Homestead on FS1 noticed viewership attain 2.464 million, topping all different motorsport occasions all through the weekend. different notable races, the Components 1 Chinese language Grand Prix on ESPN — which started a 3 a.m. EST. — had 824,000 viewers. The NASCAR Truck race on Friday night time (FOX) featured 906,000 viewers whereas the NASCAR Xfinity race on Saturday (The CW) reached 1.160 million.

Lengthy Seaside, which is the subsequent race on the IndyCar schedule, begins 90 minutes after the Cup race at Bristol and also will overlap to some extent.

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