The call to start the engines at Sunday’s Cup race was given, with much gusto, by Grayson, a Shriner’s Ambassador. This was an ideal way to get an exciting race started. Along with spins, lead changes, strategic tire game plans, and unappreciated penalties, there was a two-lap shootout to the finish. There were also commercials, of course. For those fans who like to know precisely how many ads there were, and how much time they took during the broadcast, here is this week’s breakdown.
Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2025 Shriners Children’s 500
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:24 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 7:07 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 223
Minutes of race broadcast: 181
Minutes of traditional commercials: 42
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 9
Total number of commercials: 124
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 63
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 107
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 60
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 17
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 17
Number of times FS1 utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 3
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: NASCAR (8 times); Xfinity (8 times); Busch Beer (7 times); Wendy’s (5 times); NAPA (5 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
Upcoming Cup race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar ; Coca-Cola, Xfinity, Busch Beer NASCAR.com/Tickets – 2
Upcoming Cup race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar – 1
Upcoming Craftsman Truck race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar – 1
UFL theUFL.com – 1
IndyCar on Fox – 1
Big East Tournament on Fox foxsports.com/college-basketball – 1
‘Extracted’ fox.com/extracted – 1
‘Farmer Wants a Wife’ fox.com/farmer-wants-a-wife – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1
iHeart Radio iheart.com Music Awards on Fox – 1
Total: 11
Movies
‘A Working Man’ aworkingmanmovie.net – 1
‘Mickey 17’ mickey17.com.au – 1
Total: 2
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
PNC.com pnc.com – 3
Total: 3
Restaurants/Food
Wendy’s wendys.com – 5
Golden Corral goldencorral.com/ – 3
McDonald’s mcdonalds.com – 3
Tovala.com – 2
Arby’s arbys.com – 1
Chili’s chilis.com – 1
Coffee Mate goodnes.com/coffeemate – 1
Dr. Pepper drpepper.com – 1
Papa Johns papajohns.com – 1
Subway Subway.com – 1
Whole Foods wholefoodsmarket.com – 1
Total: 20
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 4
Keystone Light keystonelight.com – 3
Total: 7
Car/Truck/Bike
NAPA napaonline.com/ – 5
Ford ford.com – 3
GoodYear goodyear.com – 3
Toyota Gazoo Racing toyotagazooracing.com – 2
Valvoline valvoline.com – 2
Chevy chevy.com – 2
Ram Trucks ram.com – 1
ebay motors ebay.com – 1
Weather Tech WT.com – 1
Total: 20
Insurance/Health
Progressive progressive.com – 2
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 1
NJM Insurance – 1
Total: 4
Wireless Phone
StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 2
T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 2
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 2
Total: 6
Home Improvement
Harbor Freight harborfreight.com – 1
Total: 1
Financial
Ally Bank allybank.com – 3
Total: 3
Legal
Pierce Law Group piercelaw.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 3
Samsung samsung.com/ – 2
Total: 5
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Just For Men justformen.com – 3
Grainger grainger.com – 2
Rinvoq rinvoq.com – 2
BioFreeze biofreeze.com – 2
Bounce bouncefresh.com – 1
Bounty bountytowels.com – 1
Dayquil vicks.com – 1
Gillette gillette.com – 1
Nyquil vicks.com – 1
PlanetFitness.com planetfitness.com – 1
Smalls Cat Food smalls.com – 1
Trelegy trelegy.com – 1
Wegovy Wegovy.com – 1
Windmill Air Purifier windmillair.com – 1
Total: 19
Racing Related
NASCAR.com/FanRewards – 1
NASCAR.com/Regional – 1
Darlington Raceway darlingtonraceway.com – 1
NHRA nhra.com – 1
Martinsville Speedway martinsvillespeedway.com – 1
Total: 5
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
3:24 PM – 3:27 PM – 3 // 3:27 PM – 3:29 PM – 2
3:29 PM – 3:34 PM – 5 // 3:34 PM – 3:36 PM – 2
3:36 PM – 3:46 PM – 10 // 3:46 PM – 3:49 PM – 3
3:49 PM – 3:53 PM – 4 // 3:53 PM – 3:56 PM – 3
3:56 PM – 4:04 PM – 8 // 4:04 PM – 4:07 PM – 3
4:07 PM – 4:19 PM – 12 // 4:19 PM – 4:22 PM – 3
4:22 PM – 4:25 PM – 3 // 4:25 PM – 4:27 PM – 2
4:27 PM – 4:35 PM – 8 // 4:35 PM – 4:38 PM – 3
4:38 PM – 4:42 PM – 4 // 4:42 PM – 4:44 PM – 2
4:44 PM – 4:45 PM – 1 // 4:45 PM – 4:46 PM – 1
4:46 PM – 4:53 PM – 7 // 4:53 PM – 4:55 PM – 2
4:55 PM – 4:57 PM – 2 // 4:57 PM – 5:00 PM – 3
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM – 15 // 5:15 PM – 5:17 PM – 2
5:17 PM – 5:28 PM – 11 // 5:28 PM – 5:30 PM – 2
5:30 PM – 5:42 PM – 12 // 5:42 PM – 5:44 PM – 2
5:44 PM – 5:46 PM – 2 // 5:46 PM – 5:48 PM – 2
5:48 PM – 5:57 PM – 9 // 5:57 PM – 5:59 PM – 2
5:59 PM – 6:04 PM – 5 // 6:04 PM – 6:07 PM – 3
6:07 PM – 7:07 PM – 60 // 7:07 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 181 // Total comm. brdcst time: 42
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 21
(Shriners shrinerschildrens.org ; AMR Safety Team amr.net ; Hunt Bros Pizza; Thomas’ thomasbreads.com ; Coca-Cola; Celsius; Busch Beer; Ford; Toyota; GoodYear; Valvoline; WT.com ; Progressive; ebay; Xfinity; Big East Tournament on Fox & FS1; College Basketball Crown on Fox & FS1; UFL theUFL.com on Fox & FS1; NHRA; IndyCar on Fox; Upcoming Craftsman Truck Series race; Upcoming Xfinity race; Upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
4:13 PM – 4:16 PM
Toyota Gazoo Racing ; Progressive; Papa John’s; Toyota Gazoo Racing ; TalladegaSuperSpeedway.com ; UFL theUFL.com on Fox
6:17 PM – 6:20 PM
Verizon/FrontLine ; Ram Trucks; Subway; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Tickets ; Big East Tournament on Fox & FS1
6:29 PM – 6:32 PM
Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Tickets ; Ford; Head & Shoulders; Papa John’s; College Basketball Crown on Fox & FS1; Craftsman Truck Series NASCAR.com/Trucks