Bolstered by the most-watched Verizon IndyCar Series race ever on NBCSN for the season-ending GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, IndyCar telecasts on ABC and NBCSN posted an overall viewership increase of 16 percent in 2015 that included a 34 percent jump in NBCSN viewership. The Aug. 30 race at Sonoma Raceway, won by Scott Dixon to also secure the series championship in a tiebreaker over Juan Pablo Montoya, averaged 841,000 viewers on NBCSN, according to The Nielsen Company. Viewership peaked at more than one million in the final full quarter-hour. It was the most-watched cable telecast of an IndyCar Series race since NBCSN acquired the rights in 2009 and the highest cable viewership since the...
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