Whether they are irritating interruptions, or chances for folks to run for more snacks, commercials are a reality for NASCAR fans on race day. For those who like to know precisely how many there were, and how much time they took during the broadcast, here is this week’s breakdown.
Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2019 Clash at Daytona
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 2:55 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 5:00 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 125
Minutes of race broadcast: 97
Minutes of traditional commercials: 28
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 0
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0
Total number of commercials: 51
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 35
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
Daytona 500 on Fox foxsports.com/nascar/daytona-500 #DaytonaDay – 3
Gander RV Duel Race & Daytona 500 on Fox foxsports.com/nascar/daytona-500 #DaytonaDay – 3
PBA Tournament of Champions on Fox Sports foxsports.com/bowling – 2
Gander RV Duel Race, Gander Outdoor Truck race, Xfinity race, and Daytona 500 on Fox foxsports.com/nascar/daytona-500 #DaytonaDay – 1
Basketball on Fox Sports foxsports.com/basketball – 1
Boxing on Fox Sports foxsports.com/boxing – 1
NHRA on FoxSports foxsports.com/motor/nhra – 1
‘The Story of God’ channel.nationalgeographic.com/the-story-of-god-with-morgan-freeman/videos/story-of-god-trailer/ on NatGeo – 1
Westminster Dog Show westminsterkennelclub.org on FS1 – 1
Total: 14
Restaurants/Food
McDonald’s mcdonalds.com – 1
Pizza Hut pizzahut.com/ – 1
Tostitos fritolay.com/Tostitos/index-html – 1
Total: 3
Beer/Alcohol
Busch busch.com – 1
Sam Adams samueladams.com – 1
Total: 2
Car/Truck/Bike
Advance Auto advanceautoparts.com – 3
RamTrucks.com ramtrucks.com – 2
Chevy chevy.com – 1
ChevyDealer.com chevydealer.com – 1
Toyota toyota.com – 1
Toyota toyota.com (Denny Hamlin) – 1
Total: 9
Insurance/Health
Progressive progressive.com – 3
Geico.com geico.com – 2
State Farm statefarm.com – 1
Total: 6
Financial
QuickBooks.com quickbooks.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
HomeLight.com – 2
Total: 2
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Bass Pro Shops BassPro.com & Cabela’scabelas.com – 2
Keeps.com – 2
KinektDesign.com kinektdesign.com – 2
Get Roman getroman.com/tv – 1
Humira humira.com – 1
Keytruda keytruda.com – 1
Peptiva peptiva.com – 1
Tempur Pillows tempurpillow.com – 1
Total: 11
Travel
Hampton Hampton.com – 1
Total: 1
Racing Related
Atlanta Motor Speedwayatlantamotorspeedway.com/ – 1
Daytona 500 daytona500.com #DAYTONA500 – 1
Total: 2
Race brdcast times: Comm. brdcast times:
2:55 PM – 2:56 PM – 1 2:56 PM – 2:58 PM – 2
2:58 PM – 3:13 PM – 15 3:13 PM – 3:16 PM – 3
3:16 PM – 3:20 PM – 4 3:20 PM – 3:22 PM – 2
3:22 PM – 3:28 PM – 6 3:28 PM – 3:31 PM – 3
3:31 PM – 3:34 PM – 3 3:34 PM – 3:37 PM – 3
3:37 PM – 3:40 PM – 3 3:40 PM – 3:43 PM – 3
3:43 PM – 4:02 PM – 19 4:02 PM – 4:05 PM – 3
4:05 PM – 4:14 PM – 9 4:14 PM – 4:17 PM – 3
4:17 PM – 4:23 PM – 6 4:23 PM – 4:26 PM – 3
4:26 PM – 4:37 PM – 11 4:37 PM – 4:40 PM – 3
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM – 20 5:00 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 97 Total comm. brdcst time: 28