TV News: USA weekend motorsports TV Viewers/TV Ratings

Major motorsports TV viewer numbers for this past weekend in the USA.  Formula 1 held the Hungarian GP, NASCAR was in Iowa, and IMSA was at Road America

Formula 1

An average of 1.2 million TV viewers tuned into the Hungarian GP on ESPN Sunday morning, up 15% from last year’s 1.1 million Hungarian GP on ESPN.

The race peaked at 1.4 million viewers between 9:30am and 9:45am ET

The race drew 533,000 viewers in the all important 18-49 age bracket, or 44%. Compare that to NASCAR and IMSA under 20%, and you begin to understand why companies choose to pay big money to be in F1.

F1 averages over 80 million TV viewers per race worldwide, dwarfing all other sports.

NASCAR

To follow……

IMSA

To follow…….