TV News: USA Motorsports TV Viewers/TV Ratings (Update)

FS1 got a 1.44 rating and 2.771 million viewers for Sunday’s NASCAR Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube at Las Vegas, down 3% and 8%, respectively, from a 1.48 rating and 3.011 million last year.

The good news for NASCAR is that it drew more than twice the TV viewers as IndyCar and the IndyCar race was broadcast on FOX whereas the NASCAR race was relagated to a cable channel (FS1). When NASCAR races are broadcast on FOX they typically get 3 to 5 million TV viewers.

Reader Mordichai Rosen noted the following: “IndyCar is doing so much better on FOX than when it was on the Libtard run NBC and its affiliated channels.”

FOX INDYCAR continues its blistering start, with the first three races of the 2026 season averaging more than 1 MILLION TV viewers for the first time in the post-merger era. 1.336 million TV viewers watched Andretti Global driver Kyle Kirkwood win the Arlington GP in Texas on FOX TV.  The race peaked at 1.563 million viewers between 2:00-2:15pm ET.  Through the first three races, FOX IndyCar is averaging 1.328 million viewers, up 48% from last year (895K).

As of March 17, 2026, official TV ratings and viewership numbers for the 2026 Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway have not yet been released. Ditto from Apple for the Chinese GP that aired at 3:00am ET Sunday morning when America was asleep.