Following Saturday’s turbulent Xfinity Series race, fans may have been expecting more of the same for Sunday’s Cup race. Prior to the green flag, even Mike Joy cautioned, “Get ready for 400 laps of mayhem.” Instead, compared to many other short track races, there were no massive pile ups, flying fists, or extended red flags. The skies looked scary a few times, but no precipitation fell. Denny Hamlin conquered the track and won, despite other names being mentioned as conceivable victors. The only consistency was the commercials that accompanied the broadcast, as without those sponsors there would be no races. 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 Cook Out 400
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 2:54 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:18 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 204
Minutes of race broadcast: 163
Minutes of traditional commercials: 41
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 4
Total number of commercials: 107
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 58
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 96
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 54
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 11
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 14
Number of times FS1 utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 2
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Xfinity (9 times); Busch Beer (9 times); Wendy’s (6 times); NASCAR (6 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 – 3
Upcoming Craftsman Truck race on FS1 foxsports.com/nascar – 2
UFL theUFL.com – 2
LIV Golf livgolf.com on FS1 – 2
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 2
College Basketball Crown on Fox & FS1 foxsports.com/college-basketball – 1
‘Extracted’ fox.com/extracted – 1
Total: 13
Movies
‘The Accountant 2’ theaccountmovie.net – 1
Total: 1
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
Monster Energy AMA Supercross supercrosslive.com at Acrisure Stadium acrisurestadium.com – 2
Total: 2
Restaurants/Food
Wendy’s wendys.com – 5
Papa Johns papajohns.com – 2
Subway Subway.com – 2
Burger King burgerking.com – 2
Golden Corral goldencorral.com/ – 2
McDonald’s mcdonalds.com – 1
Oreos oreo.com – 1
Sargento cheese sargento.com – 1
Total: 16
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 4
Keystone Light keystonelight.com – 1
Total: 5
Car/Truck/Bike
Ford ford.com – 3
CarFax.com carfax.com – 3
GoodYear goodyear.com – 2
CarGurus.com – 1
Chevy chevy.com – 1
Ram Trucks ram.com – 1
NAPA napaonline.com/ – 1
Toyota Gazoo Racing toyotagazooracing.com – 1
Valvoline valvoline.com – 1
Weather Tech WT.com – 1
Total: 15
Insurance/Health
GoGetSomebody.com – 1
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 1
Progressive progressive.com – 1
Total: 3
Wireless Phone
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 2
T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 1
Verizon/Frontline Verizon.com/frontline – 1
Total: 4
Home Improvement
ACE Hardware ACEHardware.com – 2
Total: 2
Financial
Turbo Tax turbotax.com – 3
Ameriprise ameriprise.com – 1
Total: 4
Technology
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 3
Playstation playstation.com – 1
Total: 4
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
PODS pods.com – 4
Bimzelx ucb.com/our-products/Products/Bimzelx%C2%AE – 3
Persil persillaundry.com – 2
Halls gethalls.com – 2
Skyrizi skyrizi.com – 2
Apoquel zoetispetcare.com/products/apoquel/ – 2
Bounty bountytowels.com – 1
Breztri breztri.com – 1
Grainger grainger.com – 1
Head & Shoulders headandshoulders.com – 1
NATIVE nativecos.com – 1
Ozempic ozempic.com – 1
Reynolds Wrap reynoldsbrands.com – 1
Total: 22
Racing Related
NASCAR Powerball Playoff powerball.com/nascar-powerball-playoff – 1
NASCAR.com/Regional – 1
NASCAR.com/Shop nascar.com/shop – 1
Bristol Motor Speedway bristolmotorspeedway.com/ – 1
Talladega Superspeedway talladegasuperspeedway.com/ – 1
Total: 5
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
2:54 PM – 2:57 PM – 3 // 2:57 PM – 2:59 PM – 2
2:59 PM – 3:03 PM – 4 // 3:03 PM – 3:05 PM – 2
3:05 PM – 3:20 PM – 15 // 3:20 PM – 3:23 PM – 3
3:23 PM – 3:26 PM – 3 // 3:26 PM – 3:29 PM – 3
3:29 PM – 3:36 PM – 7 // 3:36 PM – 3:39 PM – 3
3:39 PM – 3:44 PM – 5 // 3:44 PM – 3:47 PM – 3
3:47 PM – 3:49 PM – 2 // 3:49 PM – 3:52 PM – 3
3:52 PM – 3:54 PM – 2 // 3:54 PM – 3:57 PM – 3
3:57 PM – 4:07 PM – 10 // 4:07 PM – 4:10 PM – 3
4:10 PM – 4:13 PM – 3 // 4:13 PM – 4:16 PM – 3
4:16 PM – 4:23 PM – 7 // 4:23 PM – 4:26 PM – 3
4:26 PM – 4:34 PM – 8 // 4:34 PM – 4:36 PM – 2
4:36 PM – 4:40 PM – 4 // 4:40 PM – 4:43 PM –3
4:43 PM – 4:48 PM – 5 // 4:48 PM – 4:51 PM – 3
4:51 PM – 5:21 PM – 30 // 5:21 PM – 5:23 PM – 2
5:23 PM – 6:18 PM – 55 // 6:18 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 163 // Total comm. brdcst time: 41
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 21
(Cook Out cookout.com ; Coca-Cola; Busch Beer; Ford; Toyota; GoodYear; Valvoline; WeatherTech.com ; BuildSubmarines.com; PODS; Allegra; Xfinity; Straight Talk; College Basketball Crown on FS1; UFL; LIV Golf on Fox & FS1; MLB on FS1; IndyCar; NHRA; Speedway Classic ’25 at Bristol Motor Speedway; Kevin Harvick ‘Happy Hour’ podcast; Upcoming Xfinity race; Upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
5:11 PM – 5:13 PM
IndyCar on Fox; Upcoming Cup Series race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Tickets ; Ford; Dayquil; Papa John’s
5:34 PM – 5:36 PM
College Basketball Crown on Fox & FS1; Wendy’s; Straight Talk; Progressive; Bounty; KansasSpeedway.com