The 2024 Method 1 season reached practically 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 line with the community. Simply over one million viewers watched the telecast of final Sunday’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on ESPN.
A mean 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 document common of 1.2 million viewers was set in 2022. The attain of 29.5 million was up from 24 million final yr.
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The season included a number of viewership data, led by the Miami Grand Prix in early Might, airing on ABC, setting the all-time U.S. tv F1 document for a dwell telecast with 3.1 million common viewers.
As well as, seven races within the 2024 season set occasion viewership data (Miami, Monaco, Canada, British, Italian, Qatar, Abu Dhabi) and 11 races noticed year-over-year viewership features 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 typical viewership of 1 million for the race was up over the 927,000 common for final yr’s occasion and surpassed the earlier occasion document of 998,000 that was set in 2021.
The expansion of F1 tv audiences within the U.S. because the championship returned to ESPN platforms in 2018 continues, with common viewership primarily doubling from 554,000 in 2018 to 1.1 million in 2023 and ’24, a complete improve of practically 100%.
The 2025 F1 season begins March 16 in Australia.
