re: 2026 NASCAR Season Thread

The Cup Series race on Sunday drew 2.841 million viewers on FS1. This is up from the 2.82 million that watched the same race in the same television window and network last year. The race peaked at 3,516,000 viewers during the 7:00-7:15 p.m. quarter hour, which included the final 10 laps that saw Ryan Blaney fend off Christopher Bell.

Alex Bowman will not compete in the Cup race at Las Vegas.

Justin Allgaier sill sub for him

That is more than the Indycar race.

Indy is growing, Fox is certainly helping. I like the NASCAR/Indy collaborations. If they both do Phoenix next year, I’ll probably go

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That is more than the Indycar race.

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Indycar is poised to have their highest rated season in maybe 2 decades if they play their cards right

1. The 500 beat Daytona in TV ratings in 2025 (first time since 1996). I think they can continue this momentum and continue to have the Memorial Day Classic as the most viewed race in this country moving fwd

2. Indycar is the only major series (Xfinity doesnt count) that is not behind a paywall. If you want to watch racing, there is no easier series to consume than Indycar

3. With the cancellation of the Jeddah and Bahrain GP, F1 fans have no racing to watch for April. Indycar , if they play their cards right has a new race hungry captive audience to engage at one of America's most prestigous races (Long Beach)

4. The Nashville Oval will have a Lead in from the World Cup Final... I wouldn't be shocked to see them get 3M+ viewers from this

5. Freedom 250 should get 5M+ viewers



Agreed with the doubleheaders, would love to see them make Michigan and Pocono work. I think if Indycar could let Nascar run on Saturdays at Road America and Detroit Streets, its a win -win

NOAP starting lineup

Time for Hendrick to can Gustafson. Chase is being held back

Your graphs are appreciated

Lots of sports today for me. Thunder, Indycar, OU Softball, OU baseball and Nascar. Just got done with Nascar.

Toyota has a big advantage this year it seems. Chase got close and I’m still not sold on Gus, so we’ll see what happens. There was some good racing in some of the race. Not as good as NOAP, but not bad either.