UPDATED TV Ratings: NASCAR, NHRA bring good news to FS1

You know it's a good ratings performance when your overnight rating bests a FIFA World Cup qualifier between the United States and Mexico.

Sunday's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono led the weekend for Fox Sports 1 with a 2.0 overnight rating (about 3.5 million viewers), according to SportsBusiness Journal, who reports that it projects to finish among FS1's top-rated races of 2017. By comparison, the U.S.-Mexico match drew a 1.5 overnight rating.

SBJ reports the ratings match last year's 2.0 for the same weekend at Michigan. This news comes on the heels of last week's 2.07 rating for the Cup race at Dover (an average of 3.36 million viewers), which was one of FS1's most-watched telecasts of the year. Last year's Pocono race ran a week earlier and was postponed to Monday.

The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing NHRA Summernationals same-day-delayed eliminations drew a 0.96 rating (1.6 million viewers) Sunday night on FS1, up from last year's 0.72/1.1 million viewers on the same network and making it the most-watched show in NHRA history. This is the second consecutive week that an NHRA broadcast has eclipsed the one million viewer mark, with the NHRA New England Nationals achieving viewership of 1,179,000 the previous week, also on FS1. The finals telecast from Pomona and Las Vegas also had more than 1 million viewers during their broadcasts.

Live eliminations earlier Sunday morning drew a 0.37/567,000 viewers.

The Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix on NBC drew a 0.80 rating and averaged 1.2 million viewers. According to NBC Sports Group, coverage of the 2017 F1 season (prior to this weekend) has produced a Total Average Delivery (TAD) of 560,000 viewers, up 5 percent from the same point in the 2016 season (526,000).

The Verizon IndyCar Series night race at Texas drew a 0.35 rating/561,000 viewers on NBCSN; last year's race went from rain delay to a two-and-a-half-month postponement to August 27.

Through three races (prior to Texas), NBC Sports Group's coverage of the 2017 IndyCar season has produced a Total Average Delivery (TAD) of 384,000 viewers, up 9 percent from the same point in the 2016 season (351,000).

Saturday's first-of-its-kind Drivers Only broadcast of the Xfinity Series race on Fox drew a 0.99 rating and an average of 1.5 million viewers, up slightly from 2016's 0.89/1.3 million viewers.