St Pete TV Rating 😭

[Openracer]

Note on this day in history, Trackforum was in full agreement. March 10, 2023.😁

[August]

Looks like the rating was higher than F1's.

So more househoulds tuned into IndyCar than F1. Does this mean F1 has families and couples watching whereas IndyCar's audience consists more of single persons?

[Truth Detector]

So more househoulds tuned into IndyCar than F1. Does this mean F1 has families and couples watching whereas IndyCar's audience consists more of single persons?

I think it has more to do with the percentage of TVs in use at the time or something similar. We used to have Ren Butler to set us straight on this.

[BADGER]

The rating is not great, and not bad…. Right where I expected it

the only thing super frustrating to me is that 2 of the top 5 markets for INDYCAR don’t have a race

Cleveland and Milwaukee

Road America is about 1 hr from downtown Milwaukee.

An interesting statistic that I think would be worth looking at is how many tracks were more popular and had better attendance when they had a couple races the same year vs going to one. I think racing a track a couple times make the driver seem more familiar to where the local fans care more.

[NaBUru38]

Household rating = Households watching a show / Households with a TV set.

Share = Households watching a show / Households with a TV set on.

Neither of those numbers count out-of-home viewers.

[Scott Speed]

Be careful not to over-analyze the "top markets." Milwaukee appears in the top 5 consistently enough for IndyCar ratings, but Cleveland and Hartford do not. Market ratings can be especially volatile because factors that won't affect the national rating will affect a market rating. A Milwaukee Bucks game? Not going to matter much to the IndyCar rating, except it will in Milwaukee. Local weather? Same deal. You get "weird" cities in the top markets from time to time because consistent markets have a shared experience one Sunday and circumstances align positively in another place.

If you want to schedule races based only on local TV ratings, I'd find a way to make Kentucky Speedway be undead. Dayton, Lousiville, and Cincinnati are consistently stronger markets for IndyCar telecasts. Hy-Vee's expanding that way, too. And the race would be a certain failure, if the track is even in usable condition at this point. Oh, well!