IndyCar, North America’s premier open-wheel racing series, confirmed Fox Sports, Fox Corp’s sports division, as the new exclusive home of the IndyCar Series and the iconic Indianapolis 500 beginning in 2025.
The new media rights deal provides a massive and unprecedented increase in exposure for the IndyCar Series, which is title sponsored by telecoms firm NTT, with all 17 races in 2025 airing on the main Fox broadcast network.
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Fox will also provide coverage of Indy 500 qualifications on both Saturday and Sunday, bringing the total number of broadcast network windows to 19, the most in the competition’s history.
Thus, IndyCar will become the only premier motorsport in the United States with exclusive major broadcast network coverage for all its races.
Furthermore, broadcasts of the IndyCar Series will be available on the Fox Sports app, while Fox Deportes will carry exclusive Spanish-language television coverage.
Practice and qualifying sessions for the IndyCar Series, and the accompanying Indy NXT races, IndyCar’s development series, will be aired on Fox Sports cable channels FS1 and FS2.
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By GlobalDataThe Indianapolis 500 is a focus of the new deal, reportedly worth $25 million per year, with Fox to broadcast shoulder content around each race day. The total broadcast slot for the iconic race will amount to five hours of IndyCar content.
As a result of the deal, from 2025, Fox will be home to the two biggest races in the US – Nascar’s Daytona 500 and the Indy 500. Fox, which has broadcast Nascar races in the US since 2001, was unveiled as one of four broadcast partners for the 2025-2031 Nascar Cup Series domestic media rights cycle.
However, under the new deal, Fox’s package has been scaled back to 14 Cup Series races, four fewer events than its current agreement, of which only five will air on the main Fox broadcast network, with the others being broadcast on FS1.
With a hole in its schedule, Fox has swooped for the IndyCar rights, thus becoming the undisputed home of US motorsport.
Table 1: IndyCar Series rights cycle and value
| CYCLE | BROADCASTER | YEARS | TOTAL VALUE ($m) | ANNUAL VALUE ($m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Fox | 1 | $25m | $25m |
| 2022 to 2024 | NBCUniversal | 3 | $60m | $20m |
| 2019 to 2021 | NBCUniversal | 3 | $60m | $20m |
| 2013 to 2018 | Disney | 6 | $36m | $6m |
| 2009 to 2012 | Disney | 4 | $16m | $4m |
| 2009 to 2018 | NBCUniversal | 10 | $60m | $6m |
IndyCar was previously shown in the US by NBC Sports with the new deal ending a relationship with the Comcast-owned broadcaster that began originally as Versus in 2009.
It became NBC Sports Network in 2012. NBC took over full coverage of the series from 2019 to 2024, with up to 14 races on the main NBC broadcast network, including the Indy 500.
Its most recent three-year extension was believed to be worth $20 million per season. According to IndyCar, NBC Sports could not offer the same amount of national broadcast slots as rival Fox.
During NBC Sports’ foray into IndyCar, Walt Disney’s ABC broadcast network held a package of rights to the ‘Series’ from 2009 to 2018 to show the Indy 500, as well as four additional races.
The rights were worth $4 million per season in the initial four-year deal, rising to $6 million per season in a six-year extension.
Fox’s IndyCar deal pre-empts its participation in the upcoming US sports streaming joint venture Venu Sports, in which Fox will be an equal partner with Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney.
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