TV News: USA weekend Motorsports TV Viewers/TV Ratings

TV Viewers for this past weekend’s major motorsports broadcasts in the USA. IndyCar was at Portland Raceway and NASCAR was at Watkins Glen

NASCAR

Cup Series numbers to follow……

The Xfinity Series race at Watkins Glen, televised on The CW, attracted 1,096,000 viewers, marking the most-watched Xfinity race at the track since 2018. This represents a 41% increase compared to last year’s race and a 54% increase compared to the 2024 Darlington race. The race, won by Connor Zilisch, also saw a peak viewership of 1,468,000 during the closing laps.

IndyCar

708,000 TV Viewers tuned into Sunday’s BitNile.com Grand Prix of Portland IndyCar race on Fox to watch Will Power win the race and Alex Palou lock up his 4th IndyCar title in 5 years. It was up 86% from last year when the USA Network Cable channel only drew 380,068 but still far below even the NASCAR Xfinity race on the obscure CW channel.

The first 31 minutes were broadcast on FS1 and drew only 151,000 viewers.  The broadcast peaked at 945,000 TV viewers at the end of the race.

So far in its debut season as IndyCar’s exclusive partner, the 15 FOX races have delivered an average of 1,416,000 viewers per broadcast.