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: 118
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 71
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 21
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 1:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 4:18 PM
Total minutes: 198
Minutes of race broadcast: 140
Minutes of commercials: 58
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘Âmystery cautions (debris not shown): 0
Number of famous movie stars to plug their newest movie during the race broadcast: 2 Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg
Total race brdcst time 140 Total comm. brdcst time 58
Number of times selected drivers were focused on:
Jacques Villeneuve ‘Â 10
Paul Menard ‘Â 24
Dale Earnhardt Jr. ‘Â 39
Matt Kenseth ‘Â 47
Jeff Burton ‘Â 72
Tony Stewart ‘Â 76
Kyle Busch ‘Â 79
Kevin Harvick ‘Â 103
Mark Martin ‘Â 104
Jimmie Johnson ‘Â 112
Jamie McMurray (race winner) ‘Â 154
Greg Biffle ‘Â 188
Juan Montoya ‘Â 207
See full rundown and more at CawsnJaws.com.(7-26-2010)
