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 Saturday’s race. TNT was the broadcast team for this event. This was their annual ‘Wide Open Coverage’; additionally, this was broadcast in HD.
Total number of commercials: 39
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 29
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 119
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:30 PM
Stop time for rain delay: 7:46 PM
Re-started recording times: 9:05 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 12:47 AM
Total minutes: 238
Minutes of race broadcast: 225
Minutes of ‘traditional’ commercials (ones that actually left the race broadcast): 13
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0
Number of NASCAR Cup Champions to be the Grand Marshall, and give the call to start the engines from his car: 1 Bobby Labonte
See full rundown, drivers highlighted on my and more on my 2010 TV Commercials page.(7-8-2010)
