The NASCAR Cup Collection 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 identical race earned final yr however there are a number of broader tv elements to think about when parsing the numbers. As a result of United States navy motion in Iran over the weekend, cable tv networks noticed a 93 p.c year-over-year enhance and 64 p.c week-over-week enhance.
These numbers are through Nielsen’s “Large Knowledge + 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 Traditional, which drew 2.5 million on NBC.
The NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Elements Collection 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.
Much like the Cup Collection 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 Collection race earlier on Saturday on the Streets of St Petersburg on FOX. The primary ever occasion on a avenue course for the division drew a million viewers.
There isn’t any direct comparability since this was a first-time companion occasion with the IndyCar Collection.
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