Race and Commercial Breakdown of the Bank of America 500:

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. ESPN on ABC was the broadcast team for this event.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:30 pm
End time to record race/commercial periods: 11:23 pm
Total number of commercials: 127
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 67
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 29
Total minutes: 233
Minutes of race broadcast: 170
Minutes of commercials: 63
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0
Number of times ESPN on ABC cut short a Home Depot commercial to come back to pit stops: 1
Number of moments later that the broadcast returned to the full Home Depot commercial: 1
Number of unexpected driver switches during race: 1 J.J. Yeley for Kasey Kahne
Total race brdcst time 170 Total comm. brdcst time 63
Number of times selected drivers were focused on:
Travis Kvapil ‘“ 12
Ryan Newman ‘“ 23
Brad Keselowski ‘“ 32
Sam Hornish Jr. ‘“ 36
Regan Smith ‘“ 40
Martin Truex Jr. ‘“ 78
Kevin Harvick ‘“ 81
Paul Menard ‘“ 90
Jeff Burton ‘“ 92
Jeff Gordon ‘“ 146
Denny Hamlin ‘“ 154
Jamie McMurray (race winner) ‘“ 162
Jimmie Johnson ‘“ 239
Kyle Busch ‘“ 250
See full rundown and other races at CawsnJaws.com.(10-20-2010)