For those of you NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials, here is the breakdown for Sunday s race. Began recording the times at the Invocation of the race at 3:02 PM, and stopped at the waving of the checkered flag at 6:15 PM (all times are EST). ESPN was the broadcast team for this event. Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:02 PM End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:15 PM Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 193 Minutes of race broadcast: 163 Minutes of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 30 Minutes of Side-by-Side commercials (split-screen): 18 Number of missed restarts: 0 Number of mystery cautions (debris not shown): 0 Number of Ford commercials cut short to come back to a caution: 1 Total race brdcst time 163 Total comm. brdcst time 30 Total number of commercials: 101 Total number of companies or entities advertised: 45 Number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 61 Total number of companies or entities advertised: 32 Number of Side-by-Side commercials during race broadcast (split-screen): 40 Total number of companies or entities advertised: 27 Number of times ESPN utilized Side-by-Side commercials during this broadcast: 8 Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 29 Total number of companies or entities advertised in brief promos or crawlers: 14 Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 3 min. 10 sec. See past races, links, more info on the 2013 TV Commercials page .
