Okay, so the heightened excitement that we all expected from the NASCAR All-Star Race being contested at Bristol Motor Speedway did not come to fruition. Higher television ratings didn’t either.
Wednesday’s NASCAR All-Star Race on FS1 had an average of 2.076-million viewers. Not only did this show a 15% decrease in viewership from last year’s race, which had 2.4-million viewers, but according to Sports Media Watch, this is the lowest viewed NASCAR All-Star Race since at least 2003.
It is worth noting that this is the first-ever All-Star Race run on a Wednesday night. Typically, the All-Star Race has been featured on Saturday night in the past.
This stalls out some new-found double-digit viewership gains that the sport has seen over the past two weeks with the Brickyard 400 and last Sunday’s Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway.
An official television rating for the All-Star Race is not available at this time, when it becomes available this story will be updated.
While the All-Star Race itself saw a viewership decrease, the All-Star Open race actually saw an increase in viewership over 2019.
The Open Race, which featured a hard crash by Bubba Wallace, recorded 1.516-Million viewers, which was up roughly 26% from 2019’s Open, which scored 1.2-million viewers.
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