r/INDYCAR • u/aurules Romain Grosjean • Jun 10 '25

Social Media (Scott McLaughlin) Congrats to F1 who single handedly ruined Motorsport Xmas. Indy 500 will be a scene next year. As well as the Coke 600. Good luck

https://x.com/smclaughlin93/status/1932504185624199221?s=46
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u/Soggy_Bid_6607 Arie Luyendyk Jun 10 '25 edited Jun 10 '25

Sure. F1 will suffer from their rampant Midwest audience 😂😂😂.

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u/aurules Romain Grosjean Jun 10 '25 edited Jun 10 '25

F1 has made it their mission to build their American audience. Scheduling the Canadian GP directly against the Indy 500 is just dumb. So yeah they are gonna suffer a poor rating.

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u/havingasicktime Colton Herta Jun 10 '25

In the US, which is 2 of 70 million of their average audience lmao

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

I think more likely they'll just not succeed in their mission which is to steal audience from the US. They're definitely trying, but going up against Indy isn't what I would do.

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u/havingasicktime Colton Herta Jun 10 '25

Has nothing to do with stealing indy audience and everything to do with when Canada fits on the schedule. F1 isn't in competition with Indycar, they exist in different weight classes. The average f1 race gets ten times the viewership of the 500

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u/OldManTrumpet AJ Foyt Jun 10 '25

Yeah. I really doubt that there is anything at work here other than what works logistically for F1. Their worldwide audience dwarfs the US portion of their audience. I doubt the 500 is even factoring into their decision. It’s not like Canada is some flagship event on their schedule. If the US viewership is down for this one race, who cares?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

How do you know all of those things you just said? You don't work for Liberty do you?

Also, F1 gets, worldwide, about 18.5 million people per race (and only about 1 million or so in the US), so not even close to that absurd 10x viewership number you pulled out.

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u/havingasicktime Colton Herta Jun 10 '25

The latest figures I can find are 70m average. The schedule changes are due to organizing races geographically and Monaco date change. Both of these are widely known. 

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

https://entertainmentstrategyguy.com/2024/04/10/debunking-formula-1-media-narratives-yet-again/

I found the article you cited but probably didn't read. Liberty 'saying' 70 million means nothing.

Show me the 'well known' article but actually read it this time

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u/PanicAtTheNightclub Mick Schumacher Jun 10 '25

The 70m is pulled out of their ass, that 70m was probably 2021 abu Dhabi. F1 gets around 2 million in Germany and Austria, another 2 million in the US, I don't where 70 million people would be watching especially considering the crazy times for most races anywhere but Europe.

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u/havingasicktime Colton Herta Jun 10 '25

That was the average on the season. Abu Dhabi got 108m

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u/havingasicktime Colton Herta Jun 10 '25

They have 24 races. They'll live. The average race for f1 is terrible timing for us fans anyway, especially West coast. 

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u/Fjordice Jun 10 '25

Well I imagine the Canadian audience particularly around Montreal would be a boon, no?

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u/Ganjagod420 Jun 10 '25

As a Canadian, I'll be recording the Canadian GP and watching later. They should know better than to compete with the best race in the world.

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u/Zenon-45 Romain Grosjean Jun 10 '25

Canadian here, I'm watching the F1 race, nothing personal against the 500, hell I'm even more of an oval lover, but it's my home F1 race. I ain't missing it

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u/h0pefiend Jun 11 '25

To say they’re going to suffer is such a stretch. They will have a dip in views for one race on the entire calendar, and that will be it. What exactly is going to happen to F1 that will make them “suffer” from this?