The NASCAR Cup Series' long-awaited return to Chicagoland Speedway delivered more than an exciting race. It also drew a healthy television audience.
According to Sports Business Journal's Adam Stern, Sunday's Cup Series race on TNT Sports averaged 2.1 million viewers. It marked NASCAR's first Cup event at Chicagoland since 2019 and outperformed the previous week's Sonoma Raceway broadcast on the network.
While the number fell just shy of Prime Video's average audience during its five-race Cup Series schedule earlier this season, it continued a solid stretch of television numbers as NASCAR heads into the second half of the regular season.
The 2.1 million average viewers represented a noticeable increase from the 1.8 million who watched the Sonoma race on TNT Sports the previous weekend. That gain came despite Chicagoland not hosting a Cup Series race since 2019, when NASCAR removed the 1.5-mile Illinois oval from the schedule.
The return had generated considerable buzz throughout the weekend. Fans packed the grandstands, and the race itself produced plenty of action as drivers adjusted to a track that many in the current field had either never raced or had limited experience competing on.
According to Sports Business Journal's Adam Stern, Sunday's Cup Series race on TNT Sports averaged 2.1 million viewers. It marked NASCAR's first Cup event at Chicagoland since 2019 and outperformed the previous week's Sonoma Raceway broadcast on the network.
While the number fell just shy of Prime Video's average audience during its five-race Cup Series schedule earlier this season, it continued a solid stretch of television numbers as NASCAR heads into the second half of the regular season.
The 2.1 million average viewers represented a noticeable increase from the 1.8 million who watched the Sonoma race on TNT Sports the previous weekend. That gain came despite Chicagoland not hosting a Cup Series race since 2019, when NASCAR removed the 1.5-mile Illinois oval from the schedule.
The return had generated considerable buzz throughout the weekend. Fans packed the grandstands, and the race itself produced plenty of action as drivers adjusted to a track that many in the current field had either never raced or had limited experience competing on.
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