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. Fox was the broadcast team for this event.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 1:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 7:33 PM *
*The race broadcast was extended for over two hours for pothole repair.
Total number of commercials: 144
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 70
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 73
Total minutes: 393
Minutes of race broadcast: 317
Minutes of commercials: 76
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘Âmystery cautions (debris not shown): 0
Number of Brian France sightings: 1 to talk about the pothole
Number of celebrity sightings: 1 Larry the Cable Guy
Number of tours of Jeff Hammonds ‘ÂVisual Display Playground: 1
Number of racing legends to give the call to start the engines: 1 Junior Johnson
Number of racing legends in the pace car: 1 Richard Petty
‘ÂDigger the Gopher Cam sightings: Animated: 13; Still: 0
Number of ‘ÂDigger camera shots NOT identified as such: 34
Total race brdcst time 317 Total comm. brdcst time 76
See more and other races on my 2010 Commercials page.(2-18-2010)
