IndyCar’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix Promoter: ‘This Is My Sistine Chapel’

Stars, Stripes and 175 MPH: IndyCar’s Washington Spectacle

(TestMiles) - The Freedom 250 put IndyCars beside the Capitol and Washington Monument, creating a national spectacle with implications far beyond one race. A Race That Looked Like Nothing Else in America For a few hours on Sunday, Washington, D.C., stopped looking like the setting for cable-news standups and history textbooks. It looked like a [...]

Race cars speed through D.C. in finale of Freedom 250 series

WASHINGTON — IndyCar took over the streets of the nation’s capital for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, the last in a series of events coordinated and promoted by President Donald Trump to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States.

Freedom 250 Grand Prix takes place in Washington, D.C.

INDYCAR and the nation’s capital thought 250 years of America deserved a celebration. How do you celebrate a birthday? You throw a race. The Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C. fit the bill.

Freedom 250 nets best IndyCar ratings outside 500 since ‘08

The IndyCar Series' Freedom 250 Grand Prix, a one-time street race in the nation's capital in honor of the country's semiquincentennial, earned the racing circuit's best TV ratings for any non-Indianapolis 500 race since 2008. Fox reported an average of 3.282 million viewers for the unique event, the largest audience outside of the Indy 500

INDYCAR shatters TV ratings with Washington, D.C. race

Usually, this is a NASCAR headline but INDYCAR has snatched the top spot Over the weekend, INDYCAR raced on the streets of Washington, D.C. It marked the first and possibly the last Freedom 250. INDYCAR Race Results: Washington, D.C. (August 23, 2026) View INDYCAR and NASCAR tv numbers below. 3.282M viewers tuned in on average during Sunday’s INDYCAR race. That makes it the most-watched non-Indy 500 race since at least 2008. Meanwhile, Sunday’s …

Washington D.C. race garners IndyCar's best non-Indy 500 rating since 2008 merger

Sunday’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix drew an average of 3.28 million viewers, which would make it IndyCar's most-watched non-Indy 500 race since the 2008 merger.