For those of you NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials, or wonder how often your driver was focused on, here is the breakdown for Sundays race. ESPN was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of commercials: 125
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 76
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 56
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:31 pm
End time to record race/commercial periods: 11:33 pm
Total minutes: 242
Minutes of race broadcast: 190
Minutes of commercials: 52
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of mystery cautions (no debris shown): 0
Number of times an ESPN SportsCenter commercial was on screen in a split-screen with the race: 2
Total race brdcst time 190 Total comm. brdcst time 52
See selected drivers and more on my 2009 TV Commercials page.(9-10-2009)
