Speaking of sponsors, I see Newman’s car will be sponsored by Bass Pro Shops and the NRA this weekend. Just damn!
and there there are these stats...
Race and Commercial Breakdown of Infineon: For those NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials, or wonder how often your driver was focused on, here is the breakdown for Sunday’s race. Recording began at the Invocation of the race at 3:00 PM, and stopped at the waving of the checkered flag at 6:15 PM (all times are EST). TNT was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of commercials: 110
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 56
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 48
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 7 min. 20 sec.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:15 PM
Total minutes: 195
Minutes of race broadcast: 143
Minutes of commercials: 52
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 1
Total race brdcst time 143 Total comm. brdcst time 52
See more details, links and past races on the 2011 TV Commercials page.(6-27-2011)