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Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
NTT INDYCAR SERIES DOUBLEHEADER FROM TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY THIS WEEKEND ON NBCSN
Saturday’s Genesys 300 Race Coverage Begins at 7 p.m. ET; XPEL 375 Race Gets Underway at 5 p.m. ET on Sunday
Sunday’s Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Marked NBC Sports’ Most-Watched Non-Indy 500 Afternoon INDYCAR Race EVER
2021 Monster Energy Supercross Championship – Saturday Live from Salt Lake City at 10 p.m. ET on NBCSN and Peacock
Alex Bowman’s Crew Chief Greg Ives Joins the Dale Jr. Download Tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN
STAMFORD, Conn. – April 28, 2021 – NBC Sports presents an NTT INDYCAR SERIES doubleheader from Texas Motor Speedway this weekend on NBCSN. Saturday’s Genesys 300 race coverage in primetime begins at 7 p.m. ET, and XPEL 375 race coverage gets underway Sunday at 5 p.m. ET. Live coverage of qualifying from Texas begins Saturday at 4 p.m. ET on NBCSN and Peacock Premium. Peacock will exclusively present coverage of practice earlier in the day at 12:30 p.m. ET. For more information about INDYCAR on Peacock and how to sign up, click here.
Highlighting the field at the oval track in Texas will be reigning and six-time INDYCAR champion Scott Dixon, two-time INDYCAR champion Josef Newgarden, 2019 Indianapolis 500 champion Simon Pagenaud, 2004 INDYCAR champion Tony Kanaan, and last week’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg winner Colton Herta, among others.
In last Sunday’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Herta won after leading a race-record 97 laps, while Newgarden finished in second and Pagenaud rounded out the podium. Following the series’ opening two races of the season, Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama winner Alex Palou leads the points standings (67 pts), trailed narrowly by Will Power and Dixon (65 pts).
With a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 1.225 million viewers on NBC, Sunday’s Grand Prix of St. Petersburg is now NBC Sports’ most-watched non-Indy 500 afternoon INDYCAR race ever, the second-most watched overall race behind only last year’s primetime coverage of the Genesys 300 in Texas (1.256 million viewers), and the best Grand Prix of St. Petersburg in five years (ABC, 2016, 1.391 million TV-only viewers).
Sunday’s race was up 81% compared to last year’s running of the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on NBC (10/25/20; 676,000 viewers), which was the finale of the 2020 season due to the pandemic, and up 37% vs. NBC’s 2020 INDYCAR race average (891,000 viewers), excluding the Indy 500.
Following are the top 5 markets for the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg:
| Rank | Market | Household Rating |
| 1 | Indianapolis | 3.82 |
| 2 | Fort Myers | 3.00 |
| 3 | Columbus, Ohio | 2.10 |
| 4 | Tampa | 2.04 |
| 5 | Charlotte | 1.67 |
BROADCAST TEAM
- Play by Play: Leigh Diffey
- Analysts: Townsend Bell, Paul Tracy
- Pit Reporters: Marty Snider, Kelli Stavast
HOW TO WATCH
- TV – NBCSN
- Streaming – Peacock, NBCSports.com, and NBC Sports app
| Date | Coverage | Network/Streaming | Time (ET) |
| Sat., May 1 | INDYCAR Texas Motor Speedway – Practice | Peacock | 12:30 p.m. |
| INDYCAR Texas Motor Speedway – Qualifying | NBCSN, Peacock, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app | 4 p.m. | |
| Genesys 300 – Pre-Race | NBCSN, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app | 7 p.m. | |
| Genesys 300 | NBCSN, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app | 7:30 p.m. | |
| Genesys 300 – Post-Race | NBCSN, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app | 9:30 p.m. | |
| Sun., May 2 | XPEL 375 | NBCSN, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app | 5 p.m. |
| XPEL 375 – Post-Race | NBCSN, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app | 7 p.m. |
MONSTER ENERGY SUPERCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP: SALT LAKE CITY
BROADCAST TEAM
- Play by Play: Todd Harris
- Analyst: Ricky Carmichael
- Reporters: Will Christien, Daniel Blair
HOW TO WATCH
- TV – NBC, NBCSN
- Streaming – Peacock, NBCSports.com, and NBC Sports app
| Date | Coverage | Network/Streaming | Time (ET) |
| Sat., May 1 | Monster Energy Supercross – Qualifying (Live) | Peacock | 4 p.m. |
| Monster Energy Supercross – Event (Live) | NBCSN, Peacock, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app | 10 p.m. | |
| Sun., May 2 | Monster Energy Supercross – Event (Encore) | NBC, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app | 1:30 p.m. |
BROADCAST NOTES
- Championship Headlines: Rice-Eccles Stadium hosts the 2021 Monster Energy Supercross Championship this Saturday, where three champions will be crowned. 2019 champion Cooper Webb (362 pts) is atop the points standings, but is narrowly trailed by Ken Roczen (340 pts), who is looking for his first title, in the 450SX standings. Both 250SX divisions will compete in the East/West Showdown season finale. In the East, Colt Nichols will attempt to defeat last week’s winner Jo Shimoda, while Justin Cooper will duel with Hunter Lawrence and Cameron McAdoo in seeking his first title in the West.
- Peacock, the new streaming home of Supercross, provides live and commercial-free coverage of qualifiers and races as well as on-demand replays. Viewers can sign up for Peacock at com. Peacock is currently available on the Roku platform; Apple devices including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD; Google platforms and devices including Android™, Android TV™ devices, Chromecast and Chromecast built-in devices; Microsoft’s Xbox One family of devices, including Xbox One S and Xbox One X; Sony PlayStation4 and PlayStation 4 Pro; and VIZIO SmartCast™ TVs and LG Smart TVs. Comcast’s eligible Xfinity X1 and Flex customers, as well as eligible Cox Contour customers, enjoy Peacock Premium included with their service at no additional cost.
MOTOGP SPANISH GRAND PRIX
The 2021 MotoGP season continues Sunday with the Spanish Grand Prix from Circuito de Jerez – Angel Nieto at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN. Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo, aiming for his third consecutive win, currently leads the points standings.
DALE JR. DOWNLOAD
Greg Ives, who is currently the crew chief for Alex Bowman and was the former crew chief of Dale Earnhardt Jr., joins this week’s Dale Jr. Download episode that airs tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN.
Produced on-site at Dirty Mo Media Studios in Mooresville, N.C., the Dale Jr. Download on NBCSN takes viewers couch-side for the taping of the motorsports icon’s weekly podcast, featuring unparalleled perspective, candid commentary, and insight that fans have come to expect from Dale Jr.
INDYCAR, Monster Energy Supercross, and MotoGP are part of NBC Sports’ “Home of Motorsports” programming throughout 2021, spanning NASCAR, IMSA, the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, Mecum Auctions, American Flat Track, Dakar Rally, and more.
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