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More than 7 cardinal viewers tuned successful to ticker Alex Palou triumph the archetypal Indianapolis 500 of his vocation implicit the weekend, FOX Sports announced connected Monday.
The contention garnered 7.05 cardinal viewers, FOX Sports said, citing Nielsen accelerated nationalist ratings. The institution added that it had 8.4 cardinal viewers astatine its highest betwixt 4 p.m. ET and 4:15 p.m. ET.
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Indianapolis 500 champion Alex Palou, of Spain, poses with the Borg-Warner Trophy during the accepted winners photograph league astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway successful Indianapolis, Monday, May 26, 2025. (Michael Conroy/AP Photo)
It was the most-watched Indianapolis 500 successful 17 years, according to FOX Sports. The last Indy 500 to gully comparable viewership was the 2008 race, which garnered an assemblage of 7.245 million. FOX Sports said viewership was up 40% from past year’s race.
It was the archetypal twelvemonth FOX broadcast the Indianapolis 500.
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Alex Palou, of Spain, celebrates with fans aft winning the Indianapolis 500 car contention astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway successful Indianapolis, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Michael Conroy/AP Photo)
Palou passed Marcus Ericsson with 14 laps to spell successful the contention and held him and the remainder of the battalion astatine bay to triumph the race. It was the 5th triumph of the 2025 play for Palou and the archetypal clip a Spaniard had won the Indy 500.
Palou started the contention successful sixth presumption connected the 2nd enactment connected the extracurricular of Scott Dixon and adjacent to Felix Rosenqvist. He needed to enactment hard to get to the beforehand arsenic persistent droplets of rainfall and respective caution flags came out, which could person halted his momentum astatine immoderate time.
Alex Palou, of Spain, celebrates aft winning the Indianapolis 500 car contention astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway successful Indianapolis, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AJ Mast/AP Photo)
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As the contention came down to the end, helium got his accidental to determination astir Ericsson. He had immoderate thigh postulation successful beforehand of him, but they didn’t look to hinder Palou’s quality to triumph astatine all. For Palou, it was jubilation down the frontstretch with the anticipation of kissing the bricks and immoderate ice-cold beverage to chill him disconnected aft the grueling event.
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