{"id":232782,"date":"2025-09-17T02:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/232782\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T02:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:39:22","slug":"usa-network-ratings-revealed-for-2025-nascar-cup-series-playoff-race-at-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/232782\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Network ratings revealed for 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Playoff race at Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR had its Cup Series Playoff race at Bristol on Saturday night, and the ratings for the event have been revealed. Per Adam Stern of the <\/a>Sports Business Journal<\/a>, the race, which aired on the USA Network on Saturday night, got a 0.79 rating and 1.536 million viewers. Those numbers are down from the same event last year receiving a 0.98 rating and 1.868 million viewers. <\/p>\n

Stern then pointed out that this year\u2019s numbers were still good enough to make NASCAR the No. 2 sport on the weekend cable after football. As the Bristol race was going on, multile college football games were happening on different cable and broadcast channels.<\/p>\n

NASCAR fans saw Christopher Bell<\/strong> win the Bristol race <\/a>and clinch a spot in the second round of the playoffs. The event also saw four drivers eliminated from the playoffs, as Alex Bowman, Shane van Gisbergen, Austin Dillon<\/strong> and Josh Berry <\/strong>fell below the cut line. <\/p>\n

Christopher Bell reacts to winning NASCAR playoff race at Bristol<\/p>\n

For Bell, the victory was big since he had not won a race since Phoenix in March. During his post-race press conference, Bell talked about when he knew that Saturday\u2019s race was going to be about tire wear. <\/p>\n

\u201cI keyed up on the radio, I think it was probably lap 20, 25. I had a couple weird moments inside the car that caught me off guard,\u201d Bell said. \u201cSo whenever the track is behaving normally and it\u2019s taking rubber, you can slide the car around, and it just feels different.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a really big slip lap 1 or 2, and then a couple laps \u2014 lap 20, 30 into the run, I\u2019m like, man, I\u2019m losing grip in a hurry here, and I keyed up and I said, I think we might have tire issues, and then I just saw the land mine of marbles up the racetrack, and that\u2019s all she wrote. I thought NASCAR did a phenomenal job officiating the race this week compared to the last time or the first time that it happened and the last time it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASCAR will be back in action on Sunday (Sep. 21) for the Mobil 1 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The race will kick off the Round of 12 of the playoffs and will air on USA at 2 p.m. ET. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR had its Cup Series Playoff race at Bristol on Saturday night, and the ratings for the event…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":232783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-232782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115217325243209198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}