Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2012 Quaker State 400: For those of you NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials, here is the breakdown for Saturday’s race. Began recording the times at the Invocation of the race at 7:29 PM, and stopped at the waving of the checkered flag at 10:32 PM (all times are EST). TNT was the broadcast team for this event.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:29 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 10:32 PM
Total number of commercials: 129
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 62
Total minutes of race broadcast: 183
Minutes of race broadcast: 125
Minutes of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 58
Minutes of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials (split-screen): 0
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 50
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 6 min. 10 sec.
Total race brdcst time 125 Total comm. brdcst time 58
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