The live telecast of the Formula 1 myWorld Austrian Grand Prix on N2 on Sunday, June 30, earned the largest U.S. television viewership for the event since it returned to the F1 schedule in 1997. With an average of 640,000 viewers, the audience was up 48 percent over N2’s telecast last year (431,000 average) and up 94 percent from the telecast on CNBC in 2017 (330,000 viewers). In N’s second season since returning to live F1 race coverage, it was the seventh time this year in nine F1 races that viewership has grown year-over-year, and the second-largest year-over-year growth for a race this season. Through nine races, F1 is averaging 684,000 viewers per race on N networks, an increase...
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