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Sunday's INDYCAR on FOX broadcast of the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca race that ran head-to-head with the Brickyard 400 drew an average audience of 734,000.

More on the TV ratings mark from Sunday's NTT INDYCAR SERIES race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, the trends of late & this year & the NASCAR competition hurdles left this year: indystar.com/story/sports/m…

This is a conversation with so much nuance involved that simple numbers don't tell the story. Using black-&-white numbers here leaves out the fact that: -2 races in '24 were bumped last-minute to CNBC (including 1 NBC race) -2 more races were streaming-only in '24 -Including

In some ways, yes. The simple math of adding up the eyeballs — between an all-network schedule, the major 500 win, practice & qualifying on cable & cable replays galore — is not for nothing. But what it doesn’t add up to is overall momentum in the sport at-large (i.e. outside

Without question. Injecting jet fuel into the 500 is a massive part of all this & obviously where the biggest win comes from. At the same time, the sport can't continue to survive solely off the hype & viewership around the 500. Those couple weeks of the sport's ecosystem

Big lead-in win for the event that preceded Sunday's IndyCar Laguna Seca race & likely a not insignificant piece of the puzzle regarding largely holding serve on ratings compared to the rest of this month while running up against the Brickyard 400.

The 1.4 million folks (average audience size for the race) who made the cable broadcast of Sunday’s F1 race at Spa without an American driver on the grid would disagree with you.

Brickyard 400 averaged 2.5 million viewers this year on TNT and TruTV (combined). Most for any NASCAR race since the Coke 600 in May, but way down from 3.6 million last year on NBC. Overall, TNT's five races averaged 2.1 million viewers.

I have no words. None. It’s all so exhausting to see…

An apt, simple, succint analogy.

News: NASCAR won't return to Mexico City next year, with Chicagoland Speedway expected to take its spot on the 2026 Cup Series schedule, sources tell The Athletic. nytimes.com/athletic/65235…

Hopes of extending the 2025 NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship — as slim of hopes as they’ve been for months — are no longer in Pato O’Ward’s hands. Pato could have a max points weekend at Portland & still see Alex Palou Montalbo clinch. On the title-clinching scenarios: indystar.com/story/sports/m…

Even if Pato puts together a max points weekend at Portland -- a track where he's never logged a podium -- Alex Palou Montalbo need just finish 4th & start the final 2 races to wrap up the title. And if Palou takes 2nd & leads a lap, he can celebrate in Oregon. indystar.com/story/sports/m…

The latest 'The Inside Line' #indycar podcast is up. Join insiders Nathan Brown & Joey Barnes as they recap Alex Palou's win at Laguna Seca. IndyStar: tinyurl.com/4m9crw3v iTunes: apple.co/2UhKKSr Spotify: spoti.fi/2QNWcTU YouTube: youtu.be/zS_e51hlnyI

The weekend after NASCAR’s sold-out race at Iowa Speedway, the finale night at Knoxville Nationals less than an hour down the road will host a sold-out crowd of more than 20,000 race fans.

Penske Entertainment confirms that Fox Corp. has purchased a 1/3 stake in the company that owns NTT INDYCAR SERIES & Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a deal that also comes with a multi-year extension of IndyCar's media rights with Fox sports that was already slated to run through 2027. Stor(ies) to come.

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This could be a landmark day for NTT INDYCAR SERIES's future. On Fox Corp purchasing a 1/3 stake in Penske Entertainment -- including both IMS & IndyCar: indystar.com/story/sports/m…