FOX Sports activities has launched viewership info for its second season returning because the broadcaster of the NTT IndyCar Sequence.
There have been a median of 1,681,000 viewers per race throughout the 2027 season, which was a 23% improve in viewership over final season.
The main broadcast for the season was undoubtedly the one hundred and tenth Indianapolis 500, which drew 6.6 million viewers.
IndyCar’s particular race across the streets of Washington D.C. drew a surprisingly comparable variety of viewers, nevertheless, bringing in 3.2 million viewers on race day.
Total, IndyCar had 9 races with not less than 1,000,000 viewers, and a better common TV ranking than any yr since 2008.
The excessive viewership comes regardless of Alex Palou’s continued dominance and supreme clinching of his fourth consecutive championship in Milwaukee.
Eric Shanks, CEO of FOX Sports activities, has a selected affinity for IndyCar racing, and he has personally helped advance the promotion technique on his community.
FOX typically runs extremely produced commercials, airs quite a few replays of races, and cross-promotes the sequence on its different in style sports activities broadcasts.
All of which weren’t common options below NBC’s tenure as broadcast associate, and mix to assist carry consciousness to the sequence.
Excessive viewership figures not solely carry financial returns to FOX itself, however assist IndyCar groups demand a premium for their very own sponsorships and brings more money into the game from a number of instructions.
Even IndyCar’s feeder sequence IndyNXT improved on its viewers throughout the 2026 season, enhancing 14% and averaging 127,000 viewers for every race. All of these races aired on pay TV channel FS1.
The sequence produced a decent championship combat that went to the ultimate race, and ended with 18-year-old Nikita Johnson incomes the title for Cape Motorsports Powered by ECR.
FOX Sports activities will proceed to be the sequence broadcast associate for not less than the following couple years, and plans are for the continued presentation of all races on FOX’s free-to-air channels.