Ty Gibbs, driver of the #54 Monster Energy Toyota, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway on April 12, 2026 in Bristol, Tennessee. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

TV News: Weekend USA Motorsports TV Viewers/TV Ratings

Up against the Master Golf final round on CBS, FS1 1.945 million TV viewers for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, down 5% from last year’s 2.05 million. The race was won by Ty Gibbs – his first.

The Saturday O’Reilly Auto Parts race got 1.22 million TV viewers, up 22% from 1 million last year on CW

The Friday Truck Series race at Bristol got 489k, down 1.8% from 498k last year.

No numbers available yet for the NHRA Winternationals.

There were no other major race broadcast in the USA last weekend.

Formula 1, IndyCar and IMSA were all idle.