Big TV audience for Monaco GP

The SID reported German free-to-air TV channel RTL "recorded top ratings with its broadcast of Sunday's Monaco F1 race." A peak audience of 8.56 million viewers tuned in to watch Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg's victory. RTL attracted an average of 7.47 million viewers to its broadcast, which equaled a 36.3% market share. [This is just in Germany. If you add up all the other countries around the world, it is possible close to 100 million watched the Monaco GP.] SID