🍃Fox’s broadcast of IndyCar’s Thermal Club race on Sunday averaged just 704,000 viewers, down 50 per cent from the opening round of the season in St Petersburg earl🉐ier this month.

The viꦦewership figures were compromised by the clashing NASCAR Cup Series event𒐪 in Miami, which was broadcast on the sister Fox Sports 1 channel.

A small portion of the Thermal Club race was also affected by a 168ꦦ澳洲5最新开奖结果:circuit br๊eaker failing in the TV compound, causing the stream t🧸o be blacked out for over 10 laps.

IndyCar had previously recorded 788,214 viewꦿers for last year’s non-championship exhibition race at Thermal C😼lub, which was officially branded as the $1 Million Challenge.

Hence, TV viewership for this year’s pointඣs-paying race was down by about 10 per cent from 2024, when 🐭NBC held the TV rights for IndyCar.

Fox took over the broadcast of IndyCar this year and has invested a sizeable amount in growing th💙e series’ popularity in the US.

Apart from hiring Formula 1 presenter Will Buxton to lead its commentary team, it also showed an ad during thi🎃s year’s Super Bowl event.

Fox initially enjoyed a surge in audience with the St Petersburg race, with 1.4 m🅘illion viewers tuning in on average to watch 🤡Alex Palou take the win from Scott Dixon.

That marked the168澳洲5最新开奖结果: highest TV rating for an IndyCar rꦓound other than the Indianapolis 500 since the 2011 Las Vegas race in which Dan Wheldon was kil🧔led in an ac﷽cident.