Commercial Breakdown for the Subway 500: For those of you NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials, here is the breakdown from the race on Sunday afternoon. There was one restart missed completely; and one in which when they returned from commercial the green flag was waving (too close to call it).
Total number of commercials: 143
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 72
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 30
Restarts missed due to being away at commercial: 1
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 12:43pm/et
End time to record race/commercial periods: 4:44pm/et
Total minutes: 241
Minutes of race broadcast: 173
Minutes of commercials: 68
see full report at CawsnJaws.com.(10-23-2006)