The Nielsen TV ratings for last Sunday’s Indy Racing League race in Iowa are in, and since there’s never a shortage of opinions
from followers of The Score when it comes to these numbers, I won’t offer mine. I will simply state them as Nielsen provided
them to me.
The rating for the Iowa Corn Indy 250, which aired starting at 1 p.m. on ABC was 0.8 nationally. According to Nielsen, that’s 870,000 TV households (and by Nielsen's calculations, 1.13 million total viewers). The race’s rating in the central Indiana market was 3.6, which is 38,592 TV households.
By comparison, the May 31 IRL race (also on ABC) in Milwaukee earned a .6 rating. But the local rating for the Iowa race fell in comparison to Milwaukee, which scored a 4.1 rating in the central Indiana market. Both races came up short of that magic 1.0 mark that IRL officials were hoping to see nationally. And in the long-run, IRL officials would like to see the ratings get a lot stronger than that.
The next three weeks will be big for the IRL in terms of trying to build a TV audience. The series races at Richmond Saturday, with the broadcast starting at 8 p.m. on Versus cable channel.
The next two races are on ABC, and usually draw a solid audience. Sunday, July 5, the green flag will drop at 1 p.m. at Watkins Glen, and the series will have another 1 p.m. start time Sunday, July 12 in Toronto. The series’ final seven races will be broadcast on Versus.
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TUNe in if you got the VERsus. IF not go to WAlMArt and wach it there.
I'm reasonably confident the past 14 years of epic failure have told us everything we need to know about the earl and its (severe lack of an) 'audience'.
They aren't likely to build anything when the foundation is the garbage masquerading as motorsport that is the calling card of the 'league' since its ill-conceived inception.
Not anymore Bigirl. Now that the IRL has been CARTified. Richmond is the same as all of the rest - just a very fast single lane parade.
Once Scott got ahead, we tried our best to pass him, but we couldn't get it done, Franchitti said. Nobody could pass. ... Everybody was out there hanging on.
Dixon and Franchitti, teammates with Target Chip Ganassi Racing, started on the front row and stayed there all night, benefiting from a one-groove race track that made passing difficult, and from their own patience as most everyone else made green-flag pit stops.
Scott Dixon grabbed the lead from teammate Dario Franchitti in the only spot he could have -- on pit road
The result was better than the show that produced it, however, as the smallest oval in the IndyCar Series allowed for one-groove racing and almost no passing all night long.
You just had to keep trying to follow the car in front of you, Dixon said.
Franchitti, who started first and led most of the first half of the race, found out how frustrating it had been for others to be behind Dixon.
But he knew it wasn't pretty.
I have to apologize to the fans because that was an awful, awful race, he said.
----compiled from multiple sources
Humpy says monster trucks are the standard for TOneys leeg. I agree, there is more passing at monster truck rallies
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha freaking ha
go away already TOney and take your crap for racing with you
Great observation genius.
I don't see any Reynards, Lolas, Swifts, or Penske PC chassis on the track. I don't hear Mercedes, Toyota, Honda, or Cosworth turbo engines.
what I do see and hear are crapwagons and befarter engines.
Scott is delusional
With 100 laps remaining in Saturday night's SunTrust 300, there was a steady exodus by the paying customers from the grandstands to the parking lot.
The 'league' is a plague, a scourge. The only thing that will improve it in any manner is for it to cease in permanence.
Until then, it will be mocked, derided, and ridiculed for the farce and fraud that it is.
:D
Seeing J Lazier in that piece of junk not even able to complete a lap. My goodness, that makes Salt Walther almost look like a champion. Jacques must be hard up for something to do on Saturday night.
When the race leaders can't even pass the back of the pack - whoa!!! If TG and BB think that junk is going to pass muster and grow on the true race fans, then they must be smellin' too much ethanol.
I think I'll take my Saturday nights out to O'Reilly or maybe even the Speedrome. The IRL - substandard - now for sure.
Danica - I hope you're happy, little girl, with the way you're making money and making a mockery of racing. Must be making mommy and daddy proud. I'm tuning you off and I'm out!
Signed,
Ricky Bobby Treadway
Love,
Ricky Bobby
Danica: Even Berwick guy is done with it.