The final numbers are in for Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 and the initial average audience size of 7,050,000 provided by Nielsen’s Fast ratings service has been revised upwards to 7,087,000 viewers on Sunday.

NBC uploaded its 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship preview special -- airing initially Saturday afternoon on the network -- to the NBC Motorsports YouTube channelThe 42-minute special helps introduce newer audiences to the series and previews the upcoming season, including the 63rd annual Rolex 24 at Daytona. It is hosted...

Indianapolis Motor Speedway is asking fans to account for the likelihood of bad weather and lightning protocols when planning their arrival at the track for today’s 108th Indianapolis 500.“We do think we're going to get some some sort of weather at some point in time today,” IMS President Doug Boles...

Folks affiliated with NBC’s ongoing coverage of the IndyCar Series are convinced NBC will lose the series to a different network when the broadcaster’s contract expires at the end of the season. Folks affiliated with FOX, the biggest known challenger to NBC in the network negotiations to land IndyCar for...

NBC has released its broadcast times and channels for the upcoming NTT IndyCar Series season, which starts on March 10 in St. Petersburg, ends on September 15 at Nashville Speedway, and spans 17 races and 18 total events including the non-points All-Star race at the Thermal Club.The only exception is...

The NTT IndyCar Series continues to work towards the signing of its next broadcast partnership contract. The series’ deal with NBC, its current partner for linear and streaming distribution through Peacock, enters its final season in 2024.“We first made the NBC deal in 2018 for ’19, ‘20 and 21, and...

I don’t love the deletion of Texas Motor Speedway from the new IndyCar schedule, but that’s already been said a thousand times since the 2024 calendar was released Monday morning. Having been there for the first TMS IndyCar event and, for now, the last, Texas was a special race that...

With the close to the 2023 NTT IndyCar Series season last weekend at Laguna Seca, the clock starts on the final year of the broadcast and streaming deal between NBC and the series’ owners at Penske Entertainment.The current contract runs through 2024, and with IndyCar’s slow but ongoing resurgence, Penske...

Sometime around when I first joined RACER midway through 2015, I was scrolling through the comments under an IndyCar story. I don’t recall what the story was, other than it was relatively inconsequential news of some kind that the comments section immediately found every possible downside to.This was a thing...

The 107th Indianapolis 500 averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 4.92 million viewers across NBC and Peacock, up 2% vs. the 2022 race (4.84 million), according to Fast National data released by Nielsen and digital data from Adobe Analytics.Sunday’s race delivered a 13 share (the percentage of homes watching...