Sunday’s Cup race in New Hampshire needed things before (such as ponchos for the fans attending, at least for a short while); and after (an extra-large lobster cracker and a bowl full of clarified butter for the race winner, Ryan Blaney). The folks watching at home just needed a little patience to get through the rain delay; and then to be able to watch some commercials. 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 2026 Dollar Tree 301
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 2:03 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:30 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 267
Minutes of race broadcast: 235
Minutes of traditional commercials: 32
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 13
Total number of commercials: 85
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 59
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 48
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 50
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 37
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 27
Number of times USA utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 7
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: USA (13 times); NASCAR (8 times); Xfinity (6 times); Sonic (6 times); Ashley Furniture (6 times); Busch Light (5 times); Toyota (5 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
NBC/USA TV Previews/Promos:
‘Anna Pigeon’ on USA usanetwork.com/usa-insider/franchise/anna-pigeon – 3
‘Cocktail wars’ on E – eonline.com/shows/cocktail_wars – 2
WNBA on USA – 2
‘NASCAR Americana’ on USA – 1
Upcoming Cup race on NBC/NBC Sports – 1
Upcoming Cup race on USA – 1
Upcoming Cup race on USA Coca-Cola, Xfinity, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance – 1
College Football on USA – 1
‘The Librarians: The Next Chapter’ – tntdrama.com/shows/the-librarians-the-next-chapter – 1
‘911’ on USA usanetwork.com/9-1-1 – 1
Total: 14
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
Mark Arbuckle Nissan markarbucklenissan.com – 1
Total: 1
Restaurants/Food
Arby’s arbys.com – 4
Sonic sonicdrivein.com – 4
Wendy’s wendys.com – 3
Golden Corral goldencorral.com/ – 2
IHOP ihop.com – 2
KFC kfc.com/ – 1
Monster Energy monsterenergy.com – 1
Total: 17
Beer/Alcohol
Twisted Tea twistedtea.com – 3
Busch Light busch.com – 2
Total: 5
Car/Truck/Bike
Toyota toyota.com – 4
Chevy chevy.com – 3
GMCDealer.com gmcdealer.com – 1
Safe Lite safelite.com – 1
Total: 9
Insurance/Health
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 4
NJM Insurance njm.com – 1
Total: 5
Wireless Phone
StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 2
Cricket Wireless cricketwireless.com – 1
Mint Mobile mintmobile.com – 1
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 1
Total: 5
Financial
GoNDR.com – 4
Bank of America bankofamerica.com/ – 2
Ally Bank allybank.com – 1
Credit One Bank creditonebank.com – 1
Total: 8
Legal
Peirce Law Group peircelaw.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Amazon Web Service signin.aws.amazon.com – 2
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 2
DraftKings.com draftkings.com – 1
Fan Duel fanduel.com – 1
Trimble trimble.com – 1
Verizon verizon.com/ – 1
Total: 8
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Ashley Homestore ashleyhomestore.com – 4
Breztri breztri.com – 1
Free Style Libre 3 freestyle.abbott/us-en/home.html – 1
Ingrezza ingrezza.com – 1
PODS pods.com – 1
Trelegy trelegy.com – 1
Total: 9
Racing Related
NASCAR.com/tickets nascar.com/tickets – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
2:03 PM – 2:06 PM – 3 // 2:06 PM – 2:09 PM – 3
2:09 PM – 2:12 PM – 3 // 2:12 PM – 2:14 PM – 2
2:14 PM – 2:23 PM – 9 // 2:23 PM – 2:24 PM – 1
2:24 PM – 2:39 PM – 15 // 2:39 PM – 2:41 PM – 2
2:41 PM – 2:49 PM – 8 // 2:49 PM – 2:50 PM – 1
2:50 PM – 3:10 PM – 20 // 3:10 PM – 3:12 PM – 2
3:12 PM – 3:38 PM – 26 // 3:38 PM – 3:41 PM – 3
3:41 PM – 3:50 PM – 9 // 3:50 PM – 3:53 PM – 3
3:53 PM – 4:01 PM – 8 // 4:01 PM – 4:04 PM – 3
4:04 PM – 4:06 PM – 2 // 4:06 PM – 4:09 PM – 3
4:09 PM – 4:18 PM – 9 // 4:18 PM – 4:19 PM – 1
4:19 PM – 5:11 PM – 52 // 5:11 PM – 5:13 PM – 2
5:13 PM – 5:16 PM – 3 // 5:16 PM – 5:18 PM – 2
5:18 PM – 5:28 PM – 10 // 5:28 PM – 5:30 PM – 2
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM – 15 // 5:45 PM – 5:47 PM – 2
5:47 PM – 6:30 PM – 43 // 6:30 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 235 // Total comm. brdcst time: 32
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 23
(Dollar Tree dollartree.com ; AMR Safety Team amr.net ; Hunt Bros Pizza; Applebees; Coca-Cola; Monster Energy; Busch Light; Toyota; Freeway Insurance; Liberty Mutual; Echo Park Automotive; BuildSubmarines.com ; DraftKings.com ; ZEP; Breztri; Credit One Bank; Bank of America; National Debt Relief; Xfinity; Consumer Cellular; WNBA on USA; Soccer on USA; Upcoming Cup race on NBC)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
3:24 PM – 3:26 PM
Xfinity; Valvoline; Progressive; Sonic; Weathertech.com ; TalladegaSuperSpeedway.com
4:29 PM – 4:31 PM
Mint Mobile; Valvoline; PNC Bank; Sonic; ‘Friday Night Smackdown’ on USA
4:40 PM – 4:42 PM
Progressive; Ashley Furniture; ZEP; IHOP; Consumer Cellular; WNBA on USA
4:50 PM – 4:53 PM
DraftKings.com; Busch Light; KFC; Straight Talk; PODS; NASCAR.com/Shop ; ‘NASCAR Americana’ on USA
5:00 PM – 5:02 PM
Toyota; Golden Corral; FreeStyle Libre; O’Reilly Auto Parts on CW; ‘Anna Pigeon’ on USA
6:01 PM – 6:02 PM
Bank of America; Busch Light; Golden Corral; ‘NASCAR Americana’ on USA; WNBA on USA
6:08 PM – 6:09 PM
Xfinity; Ashley Furniture; IHOP