Race & Commercial Breakdown of the Brickyard 400:

  • 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 ‘˜mystery 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 ‘“ 10
    Paul Menard ‘“ 24
    Dale Earnhardt Jr. ‘“ 39
    Matt Kenseth ‘“ 47
    Jeff Burton ‘“ 72
    Tony Stewart ‘“ 76
    Kyle Busch ‘“ 79
    Kevin Harvick ‘“ 103
    Mark Martin ‘“ 104
    Jimmie Johnson ‘“ 112
    Jamie McMurray (race winner) ‘“ 154
    Greg Biffle ‘“ 188
    Juan Montoya ‘“ 207
    See full rundown and more at CawsnJaws.com.(7-26-2010)