Only two races remain in close driver championship battle

ESPN’s live telecast of the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday night, Nov. 22, averaged 1.5 million viewers, the largest audience to watch the event in its three-year history, based on Nielsen Big Data + Panel data. The inaugural race in 2023 averaged 1.3 million, the previous event record.

With F1 races averaging 1.3 million viewers, ESPN remains on course to set an all-time season record average for F1 viewership in the United States. The existing record average of 1.21 million was set in 2022.

Viewership was up nearly 70 percent over last year’s race, which averaged 905,000 viewers and started at close to 1 a.m. ET. Organizers moved the starting time of this year’s event earlier, with the race telecast running from 10:

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