Toronto maintains 700k+ viewership for IndyCar on FOX

IndyCar on FOX generated an average audience size of 734,000 viewers during Sunday’s Honda Indy Toronto.

A direct year-to-year comparison was unavailable as the Toronto race aired on NBC’s Peacock streaming service in 2024 where viewership numbers were not published by the broadcaster or series. FOX reports the race won by Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward in the No. 5 Chevy peaked with an audience of 894,000 viewers between 2-2:15pm ET.

Thirteen races have been run during FOX’s first season as IndyCar’s exclusive television partner. To date, an average of 1,545,000 viewers have been generated, up 30 percent from the 1,185,000 average across NBC’s channels over the same span in 2024.

From the 13, the last five broadcasts on the all-network FOX schedule have settled in between 576,000-781,000 viewers to average 717,000 from the June 20 Road America race through Sunday’s event in Toronto.

The richest vein of viewing interest was recorded from the May 25 Indianapolis 500 with a massive audience of 7,087,000 and the next two races with million-plus averages of 1,061,000 for Detroit on June 1 and 1,012,000 from World Wide Technology Raceway on June 15.

Prior to the Indy 500, the season opened with a remarkable average of 1,417,000 viewers for IndyCar’s FOX debut at St. Petersburg, and the next four races from Thermal to the Indy GP generated audiences of 552,000-914,000 for an average of 720,000 viewers.

So far, four of the 13 FOX races have assembled more than one million viewers with an average audience of 2,644,250, while the other nine have fallen below the seven-figure threshold with a combined average of 718,500 viewers.

In 2024, two of the 16 events airing on NBC, USA, and CNBC (excluding the two unreported races on Peacock) surpassed one million viewers, averaging 3,138,848 between the Indy 500 and Mid-Ohio races. Of the 14 that fell under one million, an average audience of 593,799 viewers was amassed.