The 2024 Components 1 season reached almost 30 million followers throughout ESPN platforms and concluded in a per-race common viewership tie with 2023 for the second most-viewed season ever on U.S. tv, in keeping with the community. Simply over 1,000,000 viewers watched the telecast of final Sunday’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on ESPN.
A median of 1.1 million viewers watched races throughout ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC through the season, tying the 2023 season common for the second most-viewed season. The all-time report common of 1.2 million viewers was set in 2022. The attain of 29.5 million was up from 24 million final yr.
The season included a number of viewership information, led by the Miami Grand Prix in early Might, airing on ABC, setting the all-time U.S. tv F1 report for a stay telecast with 3.1 million common viewers.
As well as, seven races within the 2024 season set occasion viewership information (Miami, Monaco, Canada, British, Italian, Qatar, Abu Dhabi) and 11 races noticed year-over-year viewership positive aspects over 2023 (Japan, Miami, Monaco, Canada, Spain, British, Hungary, Dutch, Italian, Qatar, Abu Dhabi).
The Abu Dhabi race telecast, which began at 7:55am ET, peaked at 1.1 million viewers between 9:15-9:30am. The common viewership of 1 million for the race was up over the 927,000 common for final yr’s occasion and surpassed the earlier occasion report of 998,000 that was set in 2021.
The expansion of F1 tv audiences within the U.S. for the reason that championship returned to ESPN platforms in 2018 continues, with common viewership basically doubling from 554,000 in 2018 to 1.1 million in 2023 and ’24, a complete enhance of almost one hundred pc.
The 2025 F1 season begins March 16 in Australia.
