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 Sunday’s race. ESPN was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of commercials: 141
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 83
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 22
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 1:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 4:30 PM
Total minutes: 210
Minutes of race broadcast: 144
Minutes of commercials: 66
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0 although one debris caution was identified as from debris from a wrecked car, but it was not shown to the viewers
Number of cars with real flames on them: 1 Kyle Busch’s #18 Toyota
Number of commercials cut short to return to Denny Hamlin’s pit stop, following trouble: 1 for AT&T
See past races, drivers focused on, link to full report on my 2010 TV Commercials page.(11-22-2010)
