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. ABC was the broadcast team for this event. Throughout the breakdown, you can find links to sponsors, or special items-of-interest such as links to contests and movie sites. At the very bottom you can check how many times selected drivers were focused on during the race.
Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2009 AAA 400
Total number of commercials: 113
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 60
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 38
Total number of companies or entities advertised in brief promos or crawlers: 26
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 2:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:03 PM
Total minutes: 243
Minutes of race broadcast: 197
Minutes of commercials: 46
Number of commercial-free minutes at the end of the race: 65
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of mystery cautions (debris not shown): 2
For links to the report, past races, selected drivers, see my 2009 TV Commercials page.(9-28-2009)
