Race and Commercial Breakdown of the Tums Fast Relief 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 Sundays race. ESPN was the broadcast team for this event.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 1:00 pm
End time to record race/commercial periods: 4:57 pm
Total number of commercials: 125
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 78
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 27
Total minutes: 237
Minutes of race broadcast: 159
Minutes of commercials: 58
Number of missed restarts: 0, But four occurred right as broadcast returned from commercials’”too close to call
Number of ‘˜mystery cautions (debris not shown): 0
Number of nice honors for the pit crews: 1, Being Grand Marshalls, and getting to give the call to start the engines
Total race brdcst time 179 Total comm. brdcst time 58
Number of times selected drivers were focused on:
Bobby Labonte ‘“ 13
Dave Gilliland ‘“ 24
Tony Raines ‘“ 44
Ken Schrader ‘“ 55
Mark Martin ‘“ 80
David Ragan ‘“ 84
Tony Stewart ‘“ 126
David Reutimann ‘“ 133
Juan Montoya ‘“ 136
Kyle Busch ‘“ 144
Dale Earnhardt Jr. ‘“ 146
Jeff Burton ‘“ 270
Kevin Harvick ‘“ 281
Denny Hamlin (race winner) ‘“ 296
See full rundown and other races on my 2010 TV Commercials page.(10-26-2010)