What was in the cards for this week’s Cup race at Las Vegas? Speculations abounded about Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott getting into each other; whether Kyle Busch could pilot a hastily put-together car from the back to the front; and if Kevin Harvick could find that golden horseshoe that Jimmie Johnson used to have. None of those things happened on Sunday. But you could surely bet on there being commercials during the broadcast. 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 2022 Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:30 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 7:20 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 230
Minutes of race broadcast: 191
Minutes of traditional commercials: 39
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 10
Total number of commercials: 115
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 65
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 93
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 57
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 22
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 23
Number of times Fox utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 4
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Geico (8 times); Coca-Cola (7 times); Xfinity (6 times); Busch Beer (6 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
Upcoming Cup race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar ; Coca-Cola, Geico, Xfinity, Busch Beer NASCAR.com/Tickets – 2
USFL Football USFL2.com on Fox – 2
‘Young Sheldon’ – 2
Big East Tournament on Fox, FS1 foxsports.com/college-basketball – 2
‘Big Bang Theory’ – 2
Fox News foxnews.com – 1
‘Friday Night Smackdown’ fox.com/wwe-friday-night-smackdown – 1
‘Master Chef Jr.’ fox.com/masterchef-jr – 1
‘Race Hub’ foxsports.com/nascar/racehub – 1
‘Welcome to Flatch’ fox.com/welcome-to-flatch – 1
Fox Bet SportsBook app foxsports.com/app foxbet.com – 1
Total: 16
Movies
‘Morbius’ morbius.movie – 2
Total: 2
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
VirginFlooring.com – 2
PNC.com pnc.com – 1
Unibet.com PA app – 1
Total: 4
Restaurants/Food
Coke Zero Sugar us.coca-cola.com/zero-sugar – 4
Wendy’s wendys.com – 2
Door Dash doordash.com (Bubba Wallace) – 2
KFC kfc.com/ – 2
Long John Silver’s ljsilvers.com – 1
Subway Subway.com – 1
Total: 12
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 2
Total: 2
Car/Truck/Bike
ebay motors ebay.com – 4
Ford ford.com – 3
GoodYear goodyear.com – 2
Vroom vroom.com – 2
Advance Auto Parts Gas Rewards advanceautoparts.com/GasRewards (Joey Logano) – 2
Ram Trucks ram.com – 1
Buyatoyota.com buyatoyota.com – 1
Toyota toyota.com – 1
Toyota toyota.com (Toyota drivers) #ToyotaNation – 1
WeatherTech.com weathertech.com – 1
Total: 18
Insurance/Health
Geico.com geico.com – 4
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 2
USAA.com usaa.com/jointoday – 2
CologuardTest.com colorguardtest.com – 1
Pfizer Pfizer.com – 1
Progressive progressive.com – 1
SafeAuto safeauto.com – 1
Total: 12
Wireless Phone
T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 3
Metro by T-Mobile metrobyt-mobile.com/- 1
Verizon/Frontline Verizon.com/frontline – 1
Total: 5
Home Improvement
Harbor Freight harborfreight.com – 1
Mahindra mahindrausa.com (Tony Stewart, Chase Briscoe) – 1
Total: 2
Financial
Jackson Hewitt jacksonhewitt.com – 1
Total: 1
Education
Kent State kent.edu – 1
Total: 1
Technology
IBM ibm.com – 5
Amazon amazon.com – 1
Comcast Business comcastbusiness.com – 1
Indeed indeed.com – 1
Ring.com ring.com – 1
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 1
Xfinity/NASCAR xfinity.com/nascar – 1
Total: 11
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Entresto.com entresto.com – 1
Gillette gillette.com – 1
Head & Shoulders headandshoulders.com – 1
Rybelsus.com – 1
Vazalore vazalore.com – 1
Total: 5
Political/Special Interest
Dave White Friends of Dave White transparencyusa.org – 1
Doctor Oz for Senate doctoroz.com – 1
Total: 1
Racing Related
Bristol Motor Speedway bristolmotorspeedway.com/ BristolTix.com bristol.com/ – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
3:30 PM – 3:33 PM – 3 // 3:33 PM – 3:35 PM – 2
3:35 PM – 3:39 PM – 4 // 3:39 PM – 3:41 PM – 2
3:41 PM – 3:56 PM – 15 // 3:56 PM – 3:58 PM – 2
3:58 PM – 4:08 PM – 10 // 4:08 PM – 4:11 PM – 3
4:11 PM – 4:16 PM – 5 // 4:16 PM – 4:19 PM – 3
4:19 PM – 4:25 PM – 6 // 4:25 PM – 4:27 PM – 2
4:27 PM – 4:32 PM – 5 // 4:32 PM – 4:34 PM – 2
4:34 PM – 4:39 PM – 5 // 4:39 PM – 4:41 PM – 2
4:41 PM – 4:49 PM – 8 // 4:49 PM – 4:52 PM – 3
4:52 PM – 4:55 PM – 3 // 4:55 PM – 4:58 PM – 3
4:58 PM – 5:05 PM – 7 // 5:05 PM – 5:08 PM – 3
5:08 PM – 5:17 PM – 9 // 5:17 PM – 5:20 PM – 3
5:20 PM – 5:38 PM – 18 // 5:38 PM – 5:40 PM – 2
5:40 PM – 5:47 PM – 7 // 5:47 PM – 5:49 PM – 2
5:49 PM – 6:01 PM – 12 // 6:01 PM – 6:03 PM – 2
6:03 PM – 6:06 PM – 3 // 6:06 PM – 6:09 PM – 3
6:09 PM – 7:20 PM – 71 // 7:20 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 191 // Total comm. brdcst time: 39
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 29
(Pennzoil ; Jiffy Lube; Monster Energy; Samaritan’s Purse samaritanspurse.org/ ; Fox Bet Super 6 app; Tootsies kidrockshonkytonkandsteakhouse.com/ ; Hunt Bros. Pizza; Subway; KFC; Coca-Cola, Coke Zero Sugar; Busch Beer; Ford Performance; Toyota; Ram Trucks; Mahindra Tractors; ebay motors; Geico; Progressive; Liberty Mutual; Breztri; Credit One Bank; Ruoff Mortgage ruoff.com ; PNC Bank pnc.com ; Xfinity; USFL on Fox & NBC; Big East Tournament on Fox, FS1; ‘Friday Night Smackdown’ on USA; ‘Race Hub’ on FS1; Upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
5:28 PM – 5:31 PM
Ram Trucks; Progressive; AtlantaMotorSpeedway.com NASCAR.com/Tickets ; Verizon; Upcoming Xfinity race NASCAR.com/tickets ; Friday Night Smackdown on USA
6:22 PM – 6:24 PM
Geico; Subway; Busch Light Beer; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Geico, Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Tickets ; RichmondRaceway.com NASCAR.com/Tickets ; ‘The Masked Singer’ on Fox
6:32 PM – 6:34 PM
Progressive; Breztri; Big East Tournament on Fox, FS1; MartinsvilleSpeedway.com NASCAR.com/Tickets
6:53 PM – 6:56 PM
Toyota (various drivers); Liberty Mutual; ‘Domino Masters’ & ‘The Masked Singer’ on Fox; Wendy’s; Jackson Hewitt; Upcoming CWTS race NASCAR.com/Trucks