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 races. Recording began the times for the Showdown at 7:21 PM, and stopped at the waving of the checkered flag for the All Star Race at 11:25 PM (all times are EST). SPEED was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of commercials: 96
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 59
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:21 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 11:25 PM
Total minutes: 244
Minutes of race broadcast: 193
Minutes of commercials: 51
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0
Number of Misses Sprint Cup it took to announce Dale Earnhardt Jr. as the winner of the fan vote: 3
Number of LEDs in the giant TV: 9,000,000
Total race brdcst time 193 Total comm. brdcst time 51
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 39
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 5 min. 25 sec.
See more driver focus, links and past races see the 2011 Commercials page.(5-23-2011)
