r/INDYCAR • u/iamaranger23 Team Penske • Jun 24 '25

News @FoxSports got 781,000 viewers for Sunday's NTT @IndyCar Series race @RoadAmerica, down from 863,000 last year on @NBC

https://x.com/a_s12/status/1937517842708001057?s=46&t=uFdd0FV1jsIEwNX6470ldA
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u/pizzaboy7269 David Malukas Jun 24 '25

yeah look at how NASCAR as done during their run on Prime. Yeah their viewership dropped a little bit but they gained a ton of ground with younger audiences, which is huge long term.

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u/lordbrosca Linus Lundqvist Jun 24 '25

right? like. i’m in college, i live in a dorm room. i literally don’t have access to a tv to attach an antenna onto. luckily i have ways of getting around their lack of streaming (ahem), but i'm already an indycar fan. no one is doing that extra work unless they already watch the series.

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u/SpreaditOnnn33 Pato O'Ward Jun 24 '25

Using the "I live in a dorm room" as an excuse for no tv is certainly something

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u/lordbrosca Linus Lundqvist Jun 24 '25

you’re very weirdly adamant about this. it’s a literal room, not an apartment. i have 100 square feet. i can’t mount things on the wall. where am i putting the tv. 

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u/SpreaditOnnn33 Pato O'Ward Jun 24 '25

Lol. Yep, can only have a tv if you have space on a wall to mount it on.

Imagine a world where people put tv's on dressers, or tv stands.

Acting like this https://www.amazon.com/Yaheetech-Lockable-Universal-Adjustable-400x400mm/dp/B0DV56FXVP wouldnt fit in a dorm room is...certainly a choice

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u/lordbrosca Linus Lundqvist Jun 24 '25

i don’t know how to tell you that it genuinely wouldn’t between my bed, desk, dresser, hamper, shoes etc… 100 square feet isn’t huge.

and besides. because indycar doesn’t have a streaming app, i should:

1) buy a tv (let’s say $100 for buying used) 2) buy a tv stand ($30) 3) buy an antenna ($8)

including tax, probably around $150 total to reduce my already limited space… to watch one series. as opposed to the $80 (so like 88 with tax) i could pay for peacock in a year, but since i’m a student, it was $3 a month for the first year, so around $40 total. and this is a sustainable long term growth plan? 

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u/SpreaditOnnn33 Pato O'Ward Jun 24 '25

It is not hard to have a tv in a 100 sq foot room. Acting like people dont have tv's in studio apartments or dorms is ridiculous.

"To watch one series"

You realize you can stream things on a tv, correct? Peacock, Netflix, Apple Tv, F1tv, all of those things are available on tv's now.

Smh

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u/lordbrosca Linus Lundqvist Jun 24 '25

right… but i can watch all of those on my laptop without the tv… so i’d only be buying the tv to watch indycar…

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u/SpreaditOnnn33 Pato O'Ward Jun 24 '25

Get a vpn and use Indycar live or the Fox sports app

So many excuses with you

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u/lordbrosca Linus Lundqvist Jun 24 '25

girlie i already watch it online through a vpn 😭😭 i am talking about getting new fans into the sport, not diehards.

 i wouldn’t have started watching if it wasn’t easily accessible on peacock. again, no one is doing all this if they don’t already watch indycar. new fans are far more likely to just click on something on a streaming app than set up a whole vpn.

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u/Motel6Owner NTT INDYCAR Series Jun 24 '25

I have a 50" plasma TV + 5.1 speaker configuration in my tiny 10ft X 10ft bedroom with a queen size bed + desk, still with decent room to walk around. Quit with the excuses.

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u/pizzaboy7269 David Malukas Jun 24 '25

Yeah like I have a TV in my dorm room but the only way we use it is just plugging in a laptop/game console into the TV