By the culmination of Sunday’s Cup race at the Brickyard there were tales of good fortune (just ask Corey Heim), or tales of woe (just ask Kyle Larson). Some tales were wildly different (just ask Todd Gilliland about his day, and then ask Ryan Blaney the same). As is always the case, a race is full of storylines, good and bad. Of course, there are also commercials. For those fans who would 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 Brickyard 400 presented by PPG
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 2:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 5:29 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 209
Minutes of race broadcast: 183
Minutes of traditional commercials: 26
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 15
Total number of commercials: 102
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 50
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 59
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 45
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 43
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 31
Number of times TNT utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 7
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: NASCAR (7 times); Busch Light (6 times); Xfinity (5 times); Buffalo Wild Wings (4 times); Arby’s (4 times); Toyota (4 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
TNT / TruTV
Upcoming Cup race on TNT, Coca-Cola, Xfinity, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance – 1
MLB on tbs – 1
Banana Ball on TruTV & HBO Max – 1
Shark Week on DISCOVERY channel – 1
Pluto pluto.tv – 1
Total: 5
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
Monarch Hospice monarchhospice.com – 1
PA Lottery palottery.state.pa.us/ – 1
RiverviewChevyBuickGMC.com – 1
WestShoreHome.com – 1
Total: 4
Restaurants/Food
Buffalo Wild Wings buffalowildwings.com – 3
Wendy’s wendys.com – 2
Arby’s arbys.com – 2
Nurture Life nurturelife.com – 2
Chili’s chilis.com – 1
Tovala.com – 1
Total: 11
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 1
Twisted Tea twistedtea.com – 1
Total: 2
Car/Truck/Bike
Chevy chevy.com – 2
Toyota toyota.com – 2
GMCDealer.com gmcdealer.com – 2
Ram Trucks ram.com – 1
Ford ford.com – 1
Kars4Kids.org – 1
NAPA napaonline.com/ – 1
Safe Lite safelite.com – 1
Total: 11
Insurance/Health
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 1
Total: 1
Wireless Phone
StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 2
T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 1
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 1
Total: 4
Financial
Credit One Bank creditonebank.com – 2
NationalDebtRelief.com – 1
Total: 3
Technology
Amazon Alexa amazon.com/alexa – 2
Engine engine.com – 1
Kalshi Kalshi.com – 1
SimpliSafe.com simplisafe.com – 1
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 1
Total: 6
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Breztri breztri.com – 2
Chewy.com – 2
Skechers skechers.com – 2
Kisunla kisunla.lilly.com – 1
Mattress Firm mattressfirm.com – 1
Sams Club samsclub.com – 1
Vabysmo vabysmo.com – 1
Total: 10
Military
WAR.gov – 1
Total: 1
Racing Related
NASCAR.com/Rolling-Stones – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
2:00 PM – 2:04 PM – 4 // 2:04 PM – 2:07 PM – 3
2:07 PM – 2:10 PM – 3 // 2:10 PM – 2:13 PM – 3
2:13 PM – 3:04 PM – 51 // 3:04 PM – 3:07 PM – 3
3:07 PM – 3:09 PM – 2 // 3:09 PM – 3:11 PM – 2
3:11 PM – 3:14 PM – 3 // 3:14 PM – 3:17 PM – 3
3:17 PM – 3:19 PM – 2 // 3:19 PM – 3:21 PM – 2
3:21 PM – 4:03 PM – 42 // 4:03 PM – 4:05 PM – 2
4:05 PM – 4:07 PM – 2 // 4:07 PM – 4:09 PM – 2
4:09 PM – 4:15 PM – 6 // 4:15 PM – 4:17 PM – 2
4:17 PM – 4:36 PM – 19 // 4:36 PM – 4:39 PM – 3
4:39 PM – 4:50 PM – 11 // 4:50 PM – 4:51 PM – 1
4:51 PM – 5:29 PM – 38 // 5:29 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 183 // Total comm. brdcst time: 26
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 26
(PPG ppg.com ; Wendy’s; Chili’s; Coca-Cola; Busch Light; Twisted Tea; Toyota; Freeway Insurance; NAPA; HendrickCars.com ; B-R bleacherreport.com ; Chewy.com ; Breztri; Dulcolax; Nereus.us ; Kalshi; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; Straight Talk; TNT; HBO Max; Shark Week on DISCOVERY channel; Banana Ball thebananaball.com on TNT, TruTV & HBO Max; MLB on TNT; ‘The Librarians: The Next Chapter’ on TNT; Upcoming ARCA race; Upcoming O’Reilly Auto Parts race; Upcoming Cup Series races on TNT & USA)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
2:28 PM – 2:30 PM
Skechers; Busch Light; T-Mobile; Toyota; Arby’s; Liberty Mutual; NASCAR.com/Tickets
2:38 PM – 2:41 PM
Kalshi; Twisted Tea; Sam’s Club; Chili’s; Vabysmo; NASCAR.com
2:51 PM – 2:54 PM
Ram Trucks; Burger King; Safelite; Nereus.us; Busch Light; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity
3:32 PM – 3:35 PM
Toyota; Arby’s; Xfinity; Busch Light; Straight Talk; Liberty Mutual; Chewy.com ; HBO Max; AEW on TNT & HBO Max
3:46 PM – 3:48 PM
Breztri; Chili’s; T-Mobile; Skechers; Upcoming O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race on CW
3:59 PM – 4:01 PM
Ram Trucks; Nereus.us; Sam’s Club; NASCAR.com/Shop
4:28 PM – 4:30 PM
Burger King; Liberty Mutual; Breztri; Buffalo Wild Wings; ‘The Librarians: The Next Chapter’ on TNT; Women’s World Basketball Cup on TNT, TruTV & HBO Max