Supercars series leader Shane van Gisbergen yesterday secured his second thrilling victory of the weekend at the NTI Townsville 500, with the Seven Network’s live and free coverage reaching a combined 2.18 million people nationally and 1.32 million in the capital cities across Saturday and Sunday.
On a pulsating weekend when van Gisbergen edged out Red Bull Ampol Racing teammate Jamie Whincup to snare both races at Reid Park Street Circuit, Seven’s race audience across both days was 78% bigger than Network 10’s Townsville 2020 audience and nearly tripled Foxtel’s national audience this year.
Across the weekend at Reid Park, 7plus streamed 1.38 million minutes of Supercars action.
As van Gisbergen roared to victory in Race 15 on Saturday and Race 16 yesterday, Seven delivered 74% of the Supercars race audience across the weekend.
An average 332,000 people nationally and 186,000 in the capital cities tuned in to Race 16 on Seven yesterday.
Seven’s Supercars coverage continues this weekend with the WD-40 Townsville SuperSprint on 17-18 July. On both Saturday and Sunday, Seven will show a one-hour highlights package, with viewers in all capital cities able to catch the very best action from Reid Park on 7plus from 8.30pm AEST and then on demand.
Saturday’s highlights will also be shown on Channel 7 and 7mate directly following Seven’s AFL broadcast (St Kilda v Port Adelaide at Marvel Stadium) in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, from 11.00pm AEST. They will be shown in Perth on Channel 7 at 1.00am local time.
Sunday’s highlights will screen on Channel 7 at 12.40am local time in all capital cities.
Three two-hour encores of both days’ highlights will also run in all capitals next week on 7mate, starting at 3.30pm local time on Monday, 1.00am on Tuesday and 10.00am on Friday.
Seven’s live and free Supercars coverage continues on 21-22 August with the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight at Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek.