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. Recording began at the Invocation of the race at 7:30 PM, and stopped at the waving of the checkered flag at 10:55 PM (all times are EST). Fox was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of commercials: 116
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 71
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 49
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 5 min. 5 sec.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:30 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 10:55 PM
Total minutes: 205
Minutes of race broadcast: 157
Minutes of commercials: 48
Number of missed restarts: 1
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0
Number of ‘Digger’ appearances: 9
Number of pit boxes on fire: 1 Robby Gordon’s
Number of loyal brothers honoring another loyal brother: 1 Matthew Hansen (Daniel Hansen)
Total race brdcst time 157 Total comm. brdcst time 48
See more details, driver focus and past races on the 2011 TV Commercials page.(5-2-2011)
