While many folks in the country were flipping through the latest LL Bean catalog, putting pumpkins on their porches, and sipping on a pumpkin spice latte, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway simmered in broiling sunshine. On Sunday at the Cup race, fans attending endured temperatures near 100 degrees, and the drivers strapped into racecars hotter than that. Then the likes of Chase Briscoe, Kyle Larson, Bubba Wallace and Tyler Reddick blistered the track culminating in an exciting finish. Fans watching at home got to watch all of that, as well as some commercials. For anyone wondering 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 South Point 400
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 5:21 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 8:24 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 183
Minutes of race broadcast: 162
Minutes of traditional commercials: 21
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 22
Total number of commercials: 93
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 51
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 43
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 37
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 50
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 37
Number of times USA utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 9
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: USA (6 times); Toyota (4 times); Xfinity (4 times); NASCAR (4 times); Golden Corral (4 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
NBC/USA TV Previews/Promos:
‘Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler’ on Oxygen oxygen.com/prosecuting-evil-with-kelly-siegler – 2
‘The Rainmaker’ usanetwork.com/the-rainmaker – 2
MS Now – 2
NFL Red Zone – 1
‘Friday Night Smackdown’ on USA usanetwork.com/Friday-night-smackdown – 1
‘Law & Order: SVU’ usanetwork.com/law-and-order-special-victims-unit – 1
‘Marshals’ cbs.com/shows/marshals/- 1
Total: 10
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
Lincoln Crossings Dental Care lincolncrossingsdentalcare.com – 1
RiverviewChevyBuickGMC.com – 1
Total: 2
Restaurants/Food
Chipotle chipotle.com – 1
Subway Subway.com – 1
Tovala.com – 1
Total: 3
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 1
Total: 1
Car/Truck/Bike
Ram Trucks ram.com – 1
Shell shell.com/us-en/ – 1
Toyota toyota.com – 1
Valvoline valvoline.com – 1
Weather Tech WT.com – 1
Total: 5
Insurance/Health
Blood Cancer United bloodcancerunited.org – 1
KidsMentalHealthFoundation.org – 1
MaketheConnection.org – 1
Total: 3
Wireless Phone
Consumer Cellular consumercellular.com – 1
Patriot Mobile patriotmobile.com – 1
T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 1
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 1
Total: 4
Financial
Ally Bank allybank.com – 1
Credit One Bank creditonebank.com – 1
Total: 2
Legal
Peirce Law Group peircelaw.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Fan Duel fanduel.com – 2
Verizon verizon.com/ – 2
Kalshi Kalshi.com – 1
DraftKings.com draftkings.com – 1
Fandango.com – 1
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 1
Total: 8
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Breztri breztri.com – 1
Trelegy trelegy.com – 1
Vabysmo vabysmo.com – 1
Total: 3
Racing Related
Daytona 500 daytona500.com #DAYTONA500 – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
5:21 PM – 5:24 PM – 3 // 5:24 PM – 5:27 PM – 3
5:27 PM – 5:31 PM – 4 // 5:31 PM – 5:33 PM – 2
5:33 PM – 6:07 PM – 34 // 6:07 PM – 6:10 PM – 3
6:10 PM – 6:28 PM – 18 // 6:28 PM – 6:31 PM – 3
6:31 PM – 6:33 PM – 2 // 6:33 PM – 6:35 PM – 2
6:35 PM – 6:45 PM – 10 // 6:45 PM – 6:47 PM – 2
6:47 PM – 7:25 PM – 38 // 7:25 PM – 7:28 PM – 3
7:28 PM – 7:29 PM – 1 // 7:29 PM – 7:32 PM – 3
7:32 PM – 8:24 PM – 52 // 8:24 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 162 // Total comm. brdcst time: 21
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 20
(South Point Casino southpointcasino.com ; Speedway Children’s Charities speedwaycharities.org ; AMR Safety Team amr.net ; Hunt Bros Pizza; Coca-Cola; Busch Light; Toyota; GoodYear; Freeway Insurance; Echo Park Automotive; Dollar Tree; Fandango; Starlink; DraftKings.com ; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; ‘Anna Pigeon’ on USA; Golf on Golf Channel; College Football on USA; NASCAR2026.com ; Upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
5:49 PM – 5:52 PM
Starlink; Progressive; Golden Corral; Xfinity; Toyota; College Football on USA
6:03 PM – 6:06 PM
GoodYear; Sonic; Straight Talk; Twisted Tea; Ally Bank; NASCAR.com/SwearJar
6:19 PM – 6:21 PM
AT&T; Liberty Mutual; Ro.Co ; Golden Corral; Chevy; Fandango
6:57 PM – 6:59 PM
National Debt Relief; Progressive; Xfinity; Ram Trucks; Soccer on USA
7:10 PM – 7:13 PM
Breztri; Mint Mobile; WT.com ; Golden Corral; Kioti
7:18 PM – 7:20 PM
Ally Bank; Twisted Tea; Sonic; T-Mobile; Toyota; NASCAR.com
7:41 PM – 7:44 PM
Mint Mobile; Valvoline; GoodYear; Sonic; Coke Zero Sugar; O’Reilly Auto Parts on CW
7:51 PM – 7:53 PM
WT.com ; Golden Corral; National Debt Relief; Starlink; Busch Light; Straight Talk
8:07 PM – 8:09 PM
Patriot Mobile; Toyota; DraftKings.com; Progressive