1.1 million viewers, the biggest viewers ever for the occasion on U.S. tv, tuned into Sunday’s broadcast of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
ESPN proudly boasts that its Method 1 race viewership continues on tempo for a season report viewers as Sunday’s viewers was up from the occasion’s earlier report of 970,000 set in 2021.
Final 12 months’s race, which was the primary time the race was run in September after having beforehand been held earlier within the season, averaged 865,000 viewers.
The race additionally averaged 420,000 viewers within the 18-49 demographic.
Of the 17 F1 races held to this point this season, all however one (Miami) have seen year-over-year viewership will increase and 11 of the 17 (Australia, China, Monaco, Spain, Canada, Austria, Nice Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Azerbaijan) scored occasion report audiences.
Throughout ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, F1 races are averaging 1.4 million viewers, forward of the all-time U.S. tv report common of 1.21 million that was set in 2022.
After all, lots of these 1.1 million may have tuned in following the drama and chaos that was qualifying, whereas the race was successfully over after simply 5 corners, a lot of the remainder afternoon being a collection of DRS trains, with solely the prospect of a red-flag or a profitable undercut – in a one cease occasion – livening up what proved to be a processional occasion.
