Bringing one of sports television’s biggest success stories to a close, ESPN ended its final year of televising the Formula 1 World Championship with the all-time single-season viewership record for the championship on U.S. television.

The average race audience of 1.3 million viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC for the 24-race season was the highest live telecast average in the championship’s history, breaking the record of 1.21 million that was set on ESPN Networks in 2022.

The season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, Dec. 7, averaged 1.5 million viewers on ESPN, peaking at 1.8 million, based on Nielsen Big Data + Panel data, making it the 16 th of 24 races this season to set an event viewership record. All but three of the 24 races had year-over-year viewership growth.

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