Welcome, Race Fans, to a new season! Things kicked off at the Bowman Gray Stadium, also known as ‘The Madhouse’, for its crunched-up racing and frantic drivers trying to make room where there is none. As it turns out, Chase Elliott crunched up the victory, after a wild race. The return of racing means the return of commercials during the broadcast. 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 Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 8:20 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 10:14 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 114
Minutes of race broadcast: 102
Minutes of traditional commercials: 12
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 11
Total number of commercials: 57
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 35
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 25
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 18
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 32
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 21
Number of times Fox utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 4
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Busch Light beer (4 times); WPXI on Fox (4 times); Walmart (3 times); Wendy’s (3 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
Pre-Game Superbowl Show – 1
Superbowl on Fox – 1
‘The Floor’ fox.com/the-floor – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1
‘Young Sheldon’ – 1
Total: 5
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
NBC local news wpxi.com on Fox fox.com – 4
MrRooter.com – 2
Caliente WorldsBestPizza.com – 1
McClellandsRoofing.com – 1
Vallozzi’s Restaurant vallozzis.com – 1
Wooden Whale Work Shop woodenwhaleworkshop.com – 1
Total: 10
Restaurants/Food
Wendy’s wendys.com – 1
Total: 1
Car/Truck/Bike
Jeep jeep.com – 1
Total: 1
Wireless Phone
Verizon verizon.com – 1
Total: 1
Legal
Edgar Snyder edgarsnyder.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Fan Duel fanduel.com – 2
Total: 2
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Ashley Homestore ashleyhomestore.com – 1
Ozempic ozempic.com – 1
Vraylar.com – 1
Total: 3
Racing Related
NASCAR.com/Regional – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
8:20 PM – 8:29 PM – 9 // 8:29 PM – 8:32 PM – 3
8:32 PM – 9:15 PM – 43 // 9:15 PM – 9:18 PM –3
9:18 PM – 9:26 PM – 8 // 9:26 PM – 9:29 PM – 3
9:29 PM – 9:40 PM – 11 // 9:40 PM – 9:43 PM – 3
9:43 PM – 10:14 PM – 31 // 10:14 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 102 // Total comm. brdcst time: 12
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 12
(Cook Out cookout.com ; Daytona 500 race on Fox; Coca-Cola us.cocacola.com ; Busch Busch.com ; Toyota Toyota.com ; HendrickCars.com ; Geico geico.com ; Valvoline Valvoline.com ; Nike Unbannable nike.com ; Xfinity Xfinity.com ; NFL Super Bowl Pre-Game Show on Fox; Kevin Harvick Happy Hour)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
8:53 PM – 8:55 PM
Liberty Mutual; Busch Light; Bounty; Walmart; Valvoline; Wendy’s; T-Mobile; Busch Light
9:03 PM – 9:06 PM
Samsung Galaxy; Amazon Prime; Gillette; Weather Tech WT.com ; Coors Light; Papa John’s; HomesteadMiamiSpeedway.com ; Daytona 500 on Fox
9:56 PM – 9:59 PM
Xfinity; Busch Light beer; Wendy’s; Ally Bank; Walmart; Vick’s Dayquil; Daytona 500 on Fox; Busch Light beer; Wendy’s
10:04 PM – 10:07 PM
T-Mobile; Subway; Coors Light; NASCAR.com/Rewards; Walmart; Valvoline; Swiffer