The NASCAR Cup Sequence race on Sunday at Circuit of the Americas drew 3.933 million viewers on over-the-air FOX.
This quantity is down from the 4.132 million this similar race earned final yr however there are a number of broader tv elements to contemplate when parsing the numbers. Because of the United States navy motion in Iran over the weekend, cable tv networks noticed a 93 p.c year-over-year improve and 64 p.c week-over-week improve.
These numbers are by way of Nielsen’s “Huge Information + Panel” metric, which additionally confirmed NASCAR as essentially the most watched sporting occasion of the weekend over the New York Knicks vs San Antonia Spurs sport, which earned 2.7 million viewers on ABC and the PGA TOUR Cognizant Basic, which drew 2.5 million on NBC.
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The NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Sequence race at Circuit of the Americas drew 1.1 million viewers on The CW down 4 p.c year-over-year with 1.4 million viewers watching the end.
Just like the Cup Sequence race, Saturday’s sporting occasions additionally confronted elevated viewership from cable information. Cable information viewership was up greater than 3 times what these channels drew the weekend earlier than.
The identical dynamic applies to the Craftsman Truck Sequence race earlier on Saturday on the Streets of St Petersburg on FOX. The primary ever occasion on a road course for the division drew a million viewers.
There isn’t a direct comparability since this was a first-time companion occasion with the IndyCar Sequence.
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