TV News: Weekend USA Motorsports TV Viewers/TV Ratings

TV Viewers for this past weekend, where NASCAR raced on the Monster Mile in Dover, Delaware, and IndyCar raced around Exhibition Place in Toronto, Canada.

NASCAR

TNT plus TruTV got 2.009 million viewers for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race in Dover, Delaware, down 16.3% from 2.401 million last year when the race was held in April on FS1.

The finish of the race was rain delayed for nearly an hour toward the end.

Viewership dropped 27% during the delay with 13 laps to go.

IndyCar

Fox TV got 734,000 TV viewers for Sunday’s NTT IndyCar Series race at Toronto, up 45.6% from 504,000 the last time it aired on linear TV in 2019 on the loser channel NBCSN. Anything under 1 million viewers is considered horrible for linear TV.

It was down 35% from the 1.129 million viewers watching in 2012 on the last real network, ABC.