Before the Cup race on Sunday, a few things were pretty sure bets (i.e. Ryan Blaney doing well and contending for the win); some were harder to say (i.e. Ross Chastain fighting to the front from mid-pack, after showing some strength in practice); and some were complete question marks (i.e. if Denny Hamlin could change his luck, and change a second-place start into a win). After the Cup race, the surest thing of all is that Tony Stewart would not be dumping any dirt from any Mahindra tractor on Chase Briscoe on this day. Another sure thing was commercials during the race broadcast. For those who like to know precisely how many there were, and how much time they took during the broadcast, here is this week’s breakdown.
Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2022 Ruoff Mortgage 500
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:30 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:55 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 205
Minutes of race broadcast: 167
Minutes of traditional commercials: 38
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 9
Total number of commercials: 121
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 58
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 98
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 51
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 23
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 20
Number of times Fox utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 4
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Xfinity (8 times); Geico (7 times); Busch Beer (6 times); Coca-Cola (6 times); Toyota (6 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
USFL Football USFL2.com on Fox – 3
Upcoming Cup race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar ; Coca-Cola, Geico, Xfinity, Busch Beer NASCAR.com/Tickets – 2
‘Friday Night Smackdown’ fox.com/wwe-friday-night-smackdown – 2
‘Race Hub’ foxsports.com/nascar/racehub – 2
Fox Bet SportsBook app foxbet.com/app – 1
Upcoming Cup race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar – 1
‘Big Bang Theory’ – 1
‘Domino Masters’ on Fox fox.com/domino-masters and ‘The Masked Singer’ fox.com/the-masked-singer/ – 1
‘Master Chef Jr.’ fox.com/masterchef-jr – 1
‘Welcome to Flatch’ fox.com/welcome-to-flatch – 1
Total: 15
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
NBC local news wpxi.com on Fox fox.com – 3
Unibet.com PA app – 2
PNC.com pnc.com – 1
Total: 6
Restaurants/Food
KFC kfc.com/ – 3
Subway Subway.com – 3
Wendy’s wendys.com – 3
Coke Zero Sugar us.coca-cola.com/zero-sugar – 3
Arby’s arbys.com – 1
Door Dash doordash.com (Bubba Wallace) – 1
Total: 14
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 3
Total: 3
Car/Truck/Bike
Toyota toyota.com – 3
Ram Trucks ram.com – 3
Ford ford.com – 3
ebay motors ebay.com – 2
GoodYear goodyear.com – 2
ChooseNissan.com choosenissan.com – 2
Neighborhood Ford Store neighborhoodfordstore.com – 1
Advance Auto Parts Gas Rewards advanceautoparts.com/GasRewards (Joey Logano) – 1
Buyatoyota.com buyatoyota.com – 1
Vroom vroom.com – 1
WeatherTech.com weathertech.com – 1
Total: 20
Insurance/Health
Geico.com geico.com – 3
USAA.com usaa.com/jointoday – 3
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 2
Progressive progressive.com – 2
SafeAuto safeauto.com – 1
CologuardTest.com colorguardtest.com – 1
Total: 12
Wireless Phone
Metro by T-Mobile metrobyt-mobile.com/ – 1
T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 1
Verizon/Frontline Verizon.com/frontline – 1
Total: 3
Financial
Jackson Hewitt jacksonhewitt.com – 2
Ally Bank allybank.com (Alex Bowman) – 1
Citizens Bank/ding citizensbank.com/ding – 1
Total: 4
Technology
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 2
Indeed indeed.com – 2
Amazon amazon.com – 1
Amazon Alexa amazon.com/alexa – 1
Fan Duel fanduel.com – 1
IBM ibm.com – 1
StarsCasino.com – 1
T-Mobile WiFi t-mobile.com/wifi – 1
Verizon verizon.com/ – 1
Xfinity/NASCAR xfinity.com/nascar – 1
Total: 12
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Just For Men justformen.com – 2
Always always.com – 1
Entresto.com entresto.com – 1
Gillette gillette.com – 1
Ozempic ozempic.com – 1
Trelegy trelegy.com – 1
Total: 7
Political/Special Interest
Dave White Friends of Dave White transparencyusa.org – 1
Total: 1
Racing Related
NASCAR.com nascar.com – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: Comm. brdcast times:
3:30 PM – 3:32 PM – 2 // 3:32 PM – 3:34 PM – 2
3:34 PM – 3:38 PM – 4 // 3:38 PM – 3:40 PM – 2
3:40 PM – 3:53 PM – 13 // 3:53 PM – 3:55 PM – 2
3:55 PM – 4:03 PM – 8 // 4:03 PM – 4:05 PM – 2
4:05 PM – 4:17 PM – 12 // 4:17 PM – 4:19 PM – 2
4:19 PM – 4:24 PM – 5 // 4:24 PM – 4:27 PM – 3
4:27 PM – 4:30 PM – 3 // 4:30 PM – 4:33 PM – 3
4:33 PM – 4:40 PM – 7 // 4:40 PM – 4:43 PM – 3
4:43 PM – 4:48 PM – 5 // 4:48 PM – 4:50 PM – 2
4:50 PM – 4:56 PM – 6 // 4:56 PM – 4:58 PM – 2
4:58 PM – 5:01 PM – 3 // 5:01 PM – 5:04 PM – 3
5:04 PM – 5:13 PM – 9 // 5:13 PM – 5:15 PM – 2
5:15 PM – 5:34 PM – 19 // 5:34 PM – 5:37 PM – 3
5:37 PM – 5:40 PM – 3 // 5:40 PM – 5:43 PM – 3
5:43 PM – 5:51 PM – 8 // 5:51 PM – 5:53 PM – 2
5:53 PM – 6:03 PM – 10 // 6:03 PM – 6:05 PM – 2
6:05 PM – 6:55 PM – 50 // 6:55 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 167 // Total comm. brdcst time: 38
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 23
(Ruoff Mortgage ruoff.com ; Fox Bet Super 6 app; Monster Energy; Hunt Bros. Pizza; KFC; Subway; Coca-Cola, Coke Zero Sugar; Busch Beer; Ford Performance; Toyota; Ram Trucks; GoodYear; ebay motors; Geico; ROOT Insurance joinroot.com ; Progressive; Credit One Bank; Ally Bank; Xfinity; USFL; ‘Race Hub’ on Fox; ‘Friday Night Smackdown’ on Fox; Upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
4:12 PM – 4:14 PM
Geico; Ram Trucks; NASCARATCOTA.com; Busch Light Beer; Upcoming Xfinity race
5:22 PM – 5:24 PM
Toyota (Kyle Busch); RichmondRaceway.com NASCAR.com/Tickets ; Liberty Mutual; Upcoming Camping World Truck Series race NASCAR.com/Trucks ; ‘Fox Nation’ on Fox News; ‘Friday Night Smackdown’ on Fox
6:15 PM – 6:17 PM
USAA/JoinToday ; Coke Zero Sugar; USFL; MartinsvilleSpeedway.com NASCAR.com/Tickets ; Mahindra (Tony Stewart, Chase Briscoe); Subway
6:29 PM – 6:32 PM
Progressive; Toyota (Toyota drivers); ‘The Masked Singer’ on Fox; Xfinity.com/nascar ; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Geico, Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Tickets ; Verizon/FrontLine