INDIANAPOLIS – The 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 was record-breaking. According to officials with INDYCAR on FOX, Sunday’s race was the most-watched Indy 500 since 2008. In a post on ...

INDIANAPOLIS – The 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 was record-breaking. According to officials with INDYCAR on FOX, Sunday’s race was the most-watched Indy 500 since 2008. In a po… ...

INDIANAPOLIS – The 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 was record-breaking. According to officials with INDYCAR on FOX, Sunday’s race was the most-watched Indy 500 since 2008. In a po… ...

The last Indy 500 to draw comparable viewership was the 2008 race, which garnered an audience of 7.245 million. FOX Sports said viewership was up 40% from last year’s race.

It all seemed to pay off Monday, when Nielsen’s Fast National ratings revealed a mammoth number of average viewers: 7.05 million, the most to watch an Indy 500 in 17 years (7.2 million in 2008).

Rossi's fuel man also caught on fire, but he and the rest of his team were safe. FOX Sports' broadcast of the 2025 Indy 500 also marked a viewership high for INDYCAR's first season on FOX.

This year’s Indy 500 was the first one on Fox after NBC held the broadcast rights in recent years. Fox garnered approximately 1.7 million more viewers than NBC did in 2024.

IndyCar had average audiences over 1 million after the Indy 500, but the last four races haven't come close to that. Here's ...

One would have to go all the way back to the Indy 500’s ABC era to find a larger audience for the race. Scott Dixon’s win in 2008 averaged 7.25 million viewers on ABC. The network aired the ...

NASCAR’s Daytona 500 overtook Indy in TV viewership. Even die-hard racing fans began to treat the IndyCar Series like a niche sideshow: fast, fun, but fading. But not this year.