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[GP2] 95 million viewers for the GP2 series |
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Thursday, 22 June 2006 |
95 million viewers for the GP2 series
After an enthralling first half to the 2006 season, and as we prepare for our mid-season test in Paul Ricard next week, the GP2 series is today proud to announce the viewership totals from our stunning debut season in 2005. The figures from our inaugural year have been collated by Formula One Management, utilising practices and formulas honed over the years in the writing of the official broadcast statistics of the Formula One World Championship, taking into consideration live, delayed and highlights shows as well as newsreels. As we are sure will be agreed, for a series in only its first year of competition the 2005 figures make impressive reading.
In 2005, the GP2 series had a total of 95,460,733 viewers in 100 countries across the globe. With 5148 broadcasts going out to these territories, 238,212 minutes of footage was shown in total over the course of the debut season.
The season got off to a great start when 28,898 minutes of footage was shown from the very first round in Imola, doubling up with footage of the April GP2 series launch. Over seven million fans caught the action at the first race on television from 642 broadcasts. From here, the race-by race broadcast numbers leveled out at a highly respectable average of 410 for the remaining 11 rounds. The average viewership per round over the entire season actually worked out higher than the impressive debut, with 7,955,061 tuning in per weekend. Incredibly, Monza had the fewest broadcasts with 213 for the weekend, but the popularity of the series by this point of the season was clear to see as despite the comparatively low number of individual broadcasts, it was at this race that we pulled in the most viewers of the year
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