Presumably, the only thing faster on Sunday than Ryan Blaney in his No. 12 Ford were sales of energy drinks for all the fans giving themselves some extra stamina due to the lengthy weather delay. The fans watching from home had to endure the holding pattern in action as well, and of course the commercials. For those folks who would like to know the precise number of ads during the broadcast, and how much time they took, here is this week’s breakdown.
Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2026 Quaker State 400 available at Walmart
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:00 PM
Stop time for lightning and rain: 8:25 PM
Restart time: 11:38 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 1:45 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 212
Minutes of race broadcast: 191
Minutes of traditional commercials: 21
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 16
Total number of commercials: 93
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 51
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 52
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 44
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 41
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 29
Number of times TNT utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 6
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: NASCAR (6 times); Busch Light (6 times); Buffalo Wild Wings (5 times); Xfinity (5 times); Harbor Freight (5 times); TNT (4 times); Arby’s (4 times); Liberty Mutual (4 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
TNT / TruTV
Pluto pluto.tv – 1
TNT Sports tntsports.com – 1
Upcoming Cup race on TNT, Coca-Cola, Xfinity, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance – 1
WNBA on TNT, TruTV, and HBO Max – 1
‘House of the Dragon’ on HBO – 1
Total: 5
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
Monarch Hospice monarchhospice.com – 1
PennsylvaniaConnects.com – 1
RiverviewChevyBuickGMC.com – 1
Total: 3
Restaurants/Food
Arby’s arbys.com – 3
Buffalo Wild Wings buffalowildwings.com – 2
Burger King burgerking.com – 1
Chili’s chilis.com – 1
Eat n Park EatNPark.com – 1
Kings Hawaiian kingshawaiian.com/ – 1
Red Bull redbull.com – 1
Tropical Smoothie Café tropicalsmoothiecafe.com – 1
Total: 11
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 2
Twisted Tea twistedtea.com – 1
Total: 3
Car/Truck/Bike
Chevy chevy.com – 2
Toyota toyota.com – 2
Ram Trucks ram.com – 1
Range Rover rangerover.com – 1
Safe Lite safelite.com – 1
Total: 7
Insurance/Health
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 2
TheMoreYouKnow.com – 1
NJM Insurance njm.com – 1
Total: 4
Wireless Phone
StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 1
T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 1
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 1
Total: 3
Home Improvement
Harbor Freight harborfreight.com – 2
Total: 2
Financial
Credit One Bank creditonebank.com – 1
Total: 1
Legal
Peirce Law Group peircelaw.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Amazon Prime amazon.com/prime – 1
Engine engine.com – 1
SimpliSafe.com simplisafe.com – 1
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 1
Total: 4
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Skechers skechers.com – 2
Breztri breztri.com – 1
Chewy.com – 1
Sams Club samsclub.com – 1
Zepbound zepbound.lilly.com – 1
Total: 6
Military
WAR.gov – 1
Total: 1
Racing Related
NASCAR.com nascar.com – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
7:00 PM – 7:03 PM – 3 // 7:03 PM – 7:06 PM – 3
7:06 PM – 7:09 PM – 3 // 7:09 PM – 7:12 PM – 3
7:12 PM – 7:53 PM – 41 // 7:53 PM – 7:56 PM – 3
7:56 PM – 7:59 PM – 3 // 7:59 PM – 8:01 PM – 2
8:01 PM – 8:25 PM – 24 // 8:25 PM – Weather Delay
11:38 PM – 11:40 PM – 2 // 11:40 PM – 11:42 PM – 2
11:42 PM – 12:27 AM – 45 // 12:27 AM – 12:29 AM – 2
12:29 AM – 12:50 AM – 21 // 12:50 AM – 12:53 AM – 3
12:53 PM – 1:16 PM – 23 // 1:16 PM – 1:19 PM – 3
1:19 PM – 1:45 PM – 26 // 1:45 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 191 // Total comm. brdcst time: 21
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 24
(Quaker State quakerstate.com ; Echo Park Automotive; Hunt Bros Pizza; Coca-Cola; Busch Light; Twisted Tea; Toyota; NAPA; Freeway Insurance; HendrickCars.com ; B-R bleacherreport.com ; Nereus.us ; Breztri; Chewy.com ; Kalshi; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; Straight Talk; HBO Max; ‘The Librarians: Next Chapter’ on TNT; Shark Week on DISCOVERY channel; Boxing on TNT, TruTV, DAZN; MLB on tbs; Upcoming Craftsman Truck Series race; Upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
7:29 PM – 7:31 PM
Harbor Freight; Arby’s; Ram Trucks; Chewy.com ; Sam’s Club; Straight Talk; Busch Light
7:38 PM – 7:41 PM
Kalshi; Toyota; Skechers; Buffalo Wild Wings; Liberty Mutual; SimpliSafe.com ; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity
7:47 PM – 7:50 PM
Chili’s; Nereus.us ; Safelite; T-Mobile; Twisted Tea; NASCAR.com
8:12 PM – 8:15 PM
Hagerty.com ; Buffalo Wild Wings; Toyota; Chewy.com ; Harbor Freight; Twisted Tea; Upcoming O’Reilly Auto Parts race on CW thecw.com
8:21 PM – 8:24 PM
SimpliSafe.com ; Safelite; Sam’s Club; Busch Light; Xfinity; Burger King; Liberty Mutual; Engine.com
11:49 PM – 11:51 PM
T-Mobile; Breztri; Toyota; Buffalo Wild Wings; Harbor Freight; NASCAR.com/Tickets