Josh Berry, driver of the #21 DEX Imaging Ford, Ryan Preece, driver of the #60 Solomon Plumbing Ford, Carson Hocevar, driver of the #77 Chili's Ride the 'Dente Chevrolet, and Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, spin after an on-track incident during the NASCAR Cup Series Quaker State 400 Available at Walmart at Echo Park Speedway on June 28, 2025 in Hampton, Georgia. (Photo by Krista Jasso/Getty Images)
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TV News: Weekend USA Motorsports TV Viewers/TV Ratings

Posted by AR1 staff

TV Viewers for the NASCAR Cup Series, which raced in Atlanta at the newly renamed EchoPark  Speedway, while Formula 1 raced at the Red Bull Ring in Austria.

–by Mark Cipolloni–

NASCAR

TNT plus truTV got 1.608 million TV viewers for Saturday’s delayed NASCAR Cup race at Echo Park, down 64.6% from the 4.546 million viewers that the Atlanta (Ambetter Health 400) on FOX in February 2024 drew.

In other words – a complete disaster.

Formula 1

ESPN’s live telecast of the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday, June 29, averaged 1.1 million TV viewers, a two percent gain over last year’s race and the largest audience ever for the event on U.S. television.

The audience was up from last year’s 1.09 million TV viewers, which at the time was the largest ever for the race.

The race also averaged 436,000 TV viewers in the all important Persons ages 18-49 demographic, dwarfing NASCAR.

People in the pitlane at the Podium of the race, during the Austrian GP, Spielberg 26-29 June 2025, Red Bull Ring Formula 1 World championship 2025.

Formula 1 qualifying on Saturday, June 28, at 10 a.m. ET on ESPN2 averaged 649,000 TV viewers.

Of the 10 F1 races held so far this season, all but one (Miami) have seen year-over-year viewership increases and six of the 10 (Australia, China, Monaco, Spain, Canada and Austria) scored event record audiences. The audience for the Monaco Grand Prix was the third-largest live audience ever for a Formula 1 race on U.S. television.

Across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, F1 races are averaging 1.3 million TV viewers, up six percent over the season-to-date average for the 2024 season and up 15 percent over the full 2024 season average.

In the younger demographic of Persons ages 18-49, races are averaging 501,000 viewers, up 12 percent over the 2024 season to date average and up 21 percent over the full 2024 season average.