The 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series got off to a solid if slightly disappointing start TV wise at St. Petersburg. The live telecast on ABC scored a 0.80 rating, averaging 1.2 million household viewers. That's down from a 0.97/1.4m for last year's broadcast on the same network, but up over 2015 (0.6/891,000, also on ABC). NASCAR's Monster Energy Cup Las Vegas race, which featured a fight afterward, scored a 3.58 rating and averaged 6.0m viewers on FOX, down slightly from the previous week's numbers in Atlanta and well off the 4.36/7.3m viewers for the 2016 Cup race at Las Vegas, which aired on the weekend after Daytona. It will be interesting to see if the fight pushes ratings one way or the...
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