Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2009 Dickies 500/Texas:


Total number of commercials: 123
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 59
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 25
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:15 pm/et
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:59 pm/et
Total minutes: 224
Minutes of race broadcast: 174
Minutes of commercials: 50
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0
Number of times a replay of Johnson’s wreck on lap three was shown: 13
Number of minutes Jimmie Johnson’s car was in the garage under repair: 68
Number of times Jimmie Johnson’s car was shown being worked on during the race broadcast: 17
Number of times Chad Knaus was shown working on Jimmie’s car following the wreck: 5
Number of times a replay was shown of Carl Edwards’ wreck: 5
Total race brdcst time 174 Total comm. brdcst time 50
See drivers spotlighted, link to full report and past races on my 2009 Commercials page.(11-9-2009)