TV News: USA Motorsports Weekend TV Viewers/TV Ratings

Below are the TV viewer numbers for last weekend’s NASCAR Cup race on the Charlotte Roval won by Shane van Gisbergen televised Sunday afternoon, and the Formula 1 Singpore GP won by George Russell televised early Sunday morning when half the country was still in bed.

NASCAR

The USA Network got a 0.80 rating and 1.544 million TV viewers for Sunday’s Bank of America Roval 400 at Charlotte, down 35.7% from 2.4 million viewers on NBC in 2024.

Formula 1

The F1 Singapore GP at 8:00 am ET Sunday morning drew 931,000 TV viewers on ESPN on Sunday morning, down 6.9% from 1 million TV Viewers in 2024. The race aired last year with no NFL competition. This year, the NFL Sunday morning international game between Cleveland and Minnesota, which NFL Media tweeted as averaging 7.9M viewers, aired against some of the F1 race.

The race peaked at 1.1 million viewers between 8:45-9:00 am ET.

It was only the 2nd race this season to not be up year-over-year (other was Miami). Through 18 races, 2025 F1 season averaging 1.4M viewers (still on pace for season record) and 552K Persons 18-49 demo.