Lots of good things happened during Sunday’s All-Star race broadcast at Dover Speedway. The military was honored for Armed Services Weekend; no bad weather rolled in despite the high temperatures; while there was a car in considerable flames no one was injured by it; and Mike Joy did a great job waving that green flag for the first time in his storied career. There were commercials that happened during the broadcast as well. For those folks 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 NASCAR All-Star Race
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 12:48 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 4:57 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 249
Minutes of race broadcast: 228
Minutes of traditional commercials: 21
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 31
Total number of commercials: 134
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 60
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 50
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 31
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 84
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 39
Number of times FS1 utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 12
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: NASCAR (10 times); Xfinity (8 times); Busch Light (7 times); Wendy’s (6 times); Toyota (5 times); FIFA (4 times); Chevy (4 times); Liberty Mutual (4 times); Papa Johns (4 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
FIFA Cup on Fox foxsports.com/soccer/fifa-world-cup – 3
Upcoming Craftsman Truck race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar NASCAR.com/Tickets – 2
NASCAR on Prime – 1
‘Summer of 94’ on Fox foxsports.com/stories/presspass/fox-sports-imagine-documentaries-delirio-films-announce-summer-94-premiering-may-23 – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1
Total: 8
Movies
‘Pressure: The Untold True Story of D-Day’ focusfeatures.com/pressure – 1
Total: 1
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
Monarch Hospice monarchhospice.com – 1
PNC.com pnc.com – 1
RiverviewChevyBuickGMC.com – 1
Total: 3
Restaurants/Food
Burger King burgerking.com – 3
Dr. Pepper drpepper.com – 2
Golden Corral goldencorral.com/ – 1
Weber weber.com – 1
Total: 7
Car/Truck/Bike
Ford ford.com – 4
Chevy chevy.com – 2
Buyatoyota.com buyatoyota.com – 1
Toyota toyota.com – 1
Total: 8
Insurance/Health
NJM Insurance njm.com – 1
Total: 1
Wireless Phone
StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 1
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 1
Total: 2
Financial
Ally Bank allybank.com – 1
Total: 1
Legal
Peirce Law Group peircelaw.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 3
Total: 3
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Centrum centrum.com – 2
Free Style Libre 3 freestyle.abbott/us-en/home.html – 2
Breztri breztri.com – 1
Flonase flonase.com – 1
Grainger grainger.com – 1
M Tailor mtailor.com – 1
Sensodyne Toothpaste sensodyne.com – 1
Vraylar vraylar.com – 1
Total: 10
Travel
West Virginia Tourism wvtourism.com – 2
UniversalOrlando.com – 1
Wander wander.com – 1
Total: 4
Racing Related
NASCAR.com/FanRewards – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
12:48 PM – 12:50 PM – 2 // 12:50 PM – 12:52 PM – 2
12:52 PM – 12:58 PM – 6 // 12:58 PM – 1:00 PM – 2
1:00 PM – 1:22 PM – 22 // 1:22 PM – 1:25 PM – 3
1:25 PM – 1:54 PM – 29 // 1:54 PM – 1:57 PM – 3
1:57 PM – 2:02 PM – 5 // 2:02 PM – 2:05 PM – 3
2:05 PM – 2:09 PM – 4 // 2:09 PM – 2:12 PM – 3
2:12 PM – 2:26 PM – 14 // 2:26 PM – 2:28 PM – 2
2:28 PM – 3:06 PM – 38 // 3:06 PM – 3:08 PM – 2
3:08 PM – 3:11 PM – 3 // 3:11 PM – 3:12 PM – 1
3:12 PM – 4:57 PM – 105 // 4:57 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 228 // Total comm. brdcst time: 21
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 22
(Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation ripkenfoundation.org ; Hunt Bros Pizza; Wendy’s; Coca-Cola; Celsius; Busch Light, #BuschBeer #BuschPoints #Sweepstakes ; Ford; Toyota; Sunoco; GoodYear; Freeway Insurance; BuildSubmarines.com ; Echo Park Automotive; Breztri; Advent Health; Xfinity; FIFA on Fox; MLB on Fox; MOTO GP on Fox; NHRA on Fox; Indy 500 race on Fox; SPEEDonFox YouTube.com ; ‘Kevin Harvick Happy Hour’ podcast; Upcoming Craftsman Truck Series race; Upcoming O’Reilly Auto Parts race; Upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
1:34 PM – 1:37 PM
Liberty Mutual; Wendy’s; Ford; Breztri; Native; Busch Light; Gillette; Papa Johns; NASCAR.com/Tickets
1:44 PM – 1:47 PM
Chevy; Lego Batman lego.com ; Mother’s Car Care; Papa Johns; Progressive; Arby’s; Straight Talk; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance , Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Salutes
2:33 PM – 2:36 PM
WT.com ; Gain; Liberty Mutual; Papa Johns; T-Mobile; Busch Light; Wendy’s; NASCAR.com/Salutes Coca-Cola; Indy 500 race on Fox
2:45 PM – 2:47 PM
Paramount + ; Ram Trucks; Xfinity; Wendy’s; Busch Light; Downy Unstoppables; Chili’s
2:54 PM – 2:57 PM
MISpeedway.com ; Toyota; Wendy’s; Busch Light; Native; Liberty Mutual; Indy 500 race on Fox; Upcoming Craftsman Truck Series race NASCAR.com/Trucks
3:14 PM – 3:17 PM
‘The Breadwinner’ movie; Progressive; Gain; Busch Light; Sonic; NASCAR.com/Salutes Coca-Cola
3:30 PM – 3:32 PM
Indy 500 race on Fox; NASCAR.com/Tickets ; Liberty Mutual; Toyota; Papa Johns; PODS
3:38 PM – 3:40 PM
Chevy; Allstate; Wendy’s; Universal Orlando Resort; WT.com
3:45 PM – 3:48 PM
Liberty Mutual; Xfinity; Celsius; GoodYear; Arby’s; Gillette
3:58 PM – 4:00 PM
FIFA on Fox; MLB on Fox; Ally Bank; Papa Johns; Busch Light; PODS; NASCAR on Prime
4:08 PM – 4:10 PM
Indy 500 race on Fox; Toyota; Wendy’s; Universal Orlando Resort; Gain; Progressive
4:17 PM – 4:20 PM
Sonic; GoodYear; Walmart; Xfinity; Chili’s; Keystone Light; Sonic