Race winner Max Verstappen of the Netherlands and Oracle Red Bull Racing Second placed Lando Norris of Great Britain and McLaren Third placed Oscar Piastri of Australia and McLaren and Pierre Wache, Technical Director of Oracle Red Bull Racing celebrate on the podium with Champagne during the F1 Grand Prix of Italy at Autodromo Nazionale Monza on September 07, 2025 in Monza, Italy. (Photo by Zak Mauger/LAT Images) // Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool //
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TV News: USA Motorsports Weekend TV Viewers/TV Ratings

Posted by AR1 staff

TV viewers for the two major race broadcasts in the USA this past weekend. NASCAR was at Gateway, and Formula 1 was at Monza for the Italian GP.

NASCAR

The USA Network got a 0.82 rating and 1.525 million TV viewers for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race WWT Raceway (Gateway), down 15.2% from 1.8 million for last year’s second playoff race at Watkins Glen, and down 39% from 2.5 million for the 2024 event at the same venue on FS1 last June

Formula 1

Another F1 race, another TV Viewership record.  ESPN2 got 1.2 million TV viewer for the Italian GP race at Monza, up 12% from 1.05 million viewers in 2024.

The race peaked at 1.4 million viewers between 10-10:15am ET as Max Verstappen closed out the victory.

484,000 viewers were in the all important 18-49 age group, dwarfing NASCAR.

F1 races are averaging 1.4 million TV viewers per race this year, well above the record of 1.21M set in 2022, and 15 of 16 races are up year over year.

The 10 races this season setting viewership records were Australia, China, Monaco, Spain, Canada, Austria, Great Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands and Italy. The Miami race in May is the only race this season to not have year-over-year viewership growth.

Over 80 million TV viewers were tuned into the Italian GP live around the world.