UPDATED TV Ratings: IndyCar Mid-Ohio, NASCAR Pocono, F1 Germany

Bad weather is usually bad news for auto racing, but sometimes it can actually help in terms of TV audience. Take the case of Pocono's rained-out NASCAR race and its knock-on effects:

On Sunday, the Sprint Cup race at Pocono turned into rain-watching exercise on NBCSN that scored a 1.09 rating and averaged 1.7 million viewers.

UPDATE: NBC announced that Monday afternoon's postponed race delivered NBC Sports' best race ever in terms of live streaming. Consumption of the Pennsylvania 400 via the NBC Sports app and NBCSports.com totaled 6.7 million minutes, up 173% vs. the same event last year. Live streaming of Monday's race also stands as the year's best performing race in terms of unique users (64,000), up 88% vs. last year's Pocono race.

Season-to-date, live streams of NASCAR coverage have drawn 241,000 unique users and 26.7 million live minutes via the NBC Sports app and NBCSports.com, up 24% and 60%, respectively, from the same period in 2015 according to the network.

The telecast of the race on NBCSN averaged 1.5m viewers.

Because of the early end to its Sunday NASCAR coverage, NBCSN aired its replay of the IndyCar race (live on CNBC, where it averaged 202,000 viewers) at Mid-Ohio earlier in the day than originally planned and, once again benefitting from the strong NASCAR lead-in, the telecast drew an 0.55 rating and averaged 811,000 viewers.

UPDATE: NBC announced that the simulcast of the race on NBCSN and CNBC delivered 929,000 viewers to rank as NBC Sports Group's most-watched IndyCar race ever, since acquiring rights prior to the 2009 season.

UPDATE: Formula 1 scored an 0.3 final rating and averaged 506,000 viewers for the live telecast of the German GP on NBCSN. The race was then repeated later in the day on NBCSN – in the time slot originally scheduled for the IndyCar replay – and drew an 0.19/290,000.

The NASCAR Xfinity Series race from Iowa on Saturday scored an 0.64 rating on NBCSN, averaging 1.1m viewers.

Saturday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Pocono scored an 0.51 rating, averaging 775,000 viewers on FOX Sports 1.

Continuing its run of live coverage on the FOX broadcast network, the NHRA scored an 0.65 rating for Sunday's finals from Sonoma, averaging 998,000 viewers.

The Red Bull Global Rallycross Championship scored an 0.27 rating, averaging 366,000 viewers on NBC for live coverage of its Washington, D.C. event.

These numbers will be updated as additional data becomes available.