Commercial breakdown: 2025 Food City 500
Prior to the Food City 500 Cup race on Sunday, Mike Joy stated more than once that there are so many possible outcomes for a Bristol race, that even offering a good hunch was nearly impossible (“We just don’t know.”) While some things were unexpected (such as only four lead changes), some were no surprise (such as commercials during the broadcast). For those fans 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 2025 Food City 500
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 2:54 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 5:53 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 179
Minutes of race broadcast: 140
Minutes of traditional commercials: 39
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 8
Total number of commercials: 113
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 63
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 93
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 58
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 20
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 19
Number of times FS1 utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 4
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Busch Beer (10 times); NASCAR (8 times); Xfinity (8 times); Wendy’s (5 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
Upcoming Cup race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar ; Coca-Cola, Xfinity, Busch Beer NASCAR.com/Tickets – 3
Upcoming Craftsman Truck race on FS1 foxsports.com/nascar – 2
Upcoming Xfinity race on CW thecw.com – 1
All Star Race foxsports.com/nascar – 1
IndyCar on Fox – 1
Baseball on Fox Sports foxsports.com/mlb – 1
‘America’s Most Wanted’ on Fox fox.com/americas-most-wanted – 1
‘Farmer Wants a Wife’ fox.com/farmer-wants-a-wife – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1
tubi tubitv.com – 1
Total: 13
Movies
‘The Accountant 2’ theaccountmovie.net – 1
Total: 1
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
Monster Energy AMA Supercross supercrosslive.com at Acrisure Stadium acrisurestadium.com – 4
PNC.com pnc.com – 2
BathFitters.com bathfitters.com – 1
Pella Window PellaPittsburgh.com – 1
TriStarIndiana.com – 1
TriStarKia.com – 1
VillageMicrofund.com – 1
Total: 11
Restaurants/Food
Buffalo Wild Wings buffalowildwings.com – 4
Wendy’s wendys.com – 4
Applebees applebees.com – 2
Taco Bell tacobell.com – 2
Chili’s chilis.com – 2
Liquid Death liquiddeath.com – 1
McDonald’s mcdonalds.com – 1
Papa Johns papajohns.com – 1
Subway Subway.com – 1
Total: 18
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 6
Keystone Light keystonelight.com – 2
Total: 8
Car/Truck/Bike
Ford ford.com – 3
Chevy chevy.com – 2
NAPA napaonline.com/ – 2
Toyota Gazoo Racing toyotagazooracing.com – 2
Mother’s Car Care mothers.com – 1
CarGurus.com – 1
Total: 11
Insurance/Health
Allstate allstate.com – 2
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 1
Outcomes4Me.com – 1
Progressive progressive.com – 1
Total: 5
Wireless Phone
T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 2
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 2
Verizon/Frontline Verizon.com/frontline – 1
StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 1
Total: 6
Home Improvement
ACE Hardware ACEHardware.com – 1
TYM Tractors tym.world – 1
Total: 2
Financial
Ally Bank allybank.com – 1
Total: 1
Legal
Pierce Law Group piercelaw.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Amazon amazon.com – 1
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 1
Total: 2
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Just For Men justformen.com – 2
Sensodyne Toothpaste sensodyne.com – 2
Skechers skechers.com – 2
Breztri breztri.com – 1
Chewy.com – 1
The Men’s Wearhouse tmw.com – 1
Old Spice oldspice.com – 1
Ozempic ozempic.com – 1
PODS pods.com – 1
Wegovy Wegovy.com – 1
Total: 13
Racing Related
NorthWilkesboroSpeedway.com – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
2:54 PM –2:58 PM – 4 // 2:58 PM – 2:59 PM – 1
2:59 PM – 3:04 PM – 5 // 3:04 PM – 3:07 PM – 3
3:07 PM – 3:22 PM – 15 // 3:22 PM – 3:25 PM – 3
3:25 PM – 3:29 PM – 4 // 3:29 PM – 3:33 PM – 4
3:33 PM – 3:37 PM – 4 // 3:37 PM – 3:40 PM – 3
3:40 PM – 3:47 PM – 7 // 3:47 PM – 3:51 PM – 4
3:51 PM – 3:55 PM – 4 // 3:55 PM – 3:58 PM – 3
3:58 PM – 4:07 PM – 9 // 4:07 PM – 4:09 PM – 2
4:09 PM – 4:15 PM – 6 // 4:15 PM – 4:17 PM – 2
4:17 PM – 4:37 PM – 20 // 4:37 PM – 4:40 PM – 3
4:40 PM – 4:44 PM – 4 // 4:44 PM – 4:47 PM – 3
4:47 PM – 4:54 PM – 7 // 4:54 PM – 4:57 PM – 3
4:57 PM – 5:02 PM – 5 // 5:02 PM – 5:05 PM – 3
5:05 PM – 5:17 PM – 12 // 5:17 PM – 5:19 PM – 2
5:19 PM – 5:53 PM – 34 // 5:53 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 140 // Total comm. brdcst time: 39
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 23
(Food City foodcity.com ; Chili’s; Cheddar’s; Papa John’s; Oscar Mayer; Coca-Cola; Busch Beer; Chevy; Ford; Toyota; GoodYear; Liberty Mutual; BuildSubmarines.com; PODS; Advent Health; Xfinity; iRacing.com ; UFL theufl.com ; MLB on Fox; NHRA; IndyCar on Fox; Kevin Harvick ‘Happy Hour’ podcast; Upcoming Speedway Classic ’25 on Fox; Upcoming CTS race, Xfinity race, and Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
4:26 PM – 4:28 PM
KansasSpeedway.com ; Progressive; Vrbo; WT.com ; Subway; NASCAR.com/FanRewards ; UFL theUFL.com on Fox
5:11 PM – 5:13 PM
Toyota All-Out
5:35 PM – 5:37 PM
Upcoming Cup race on Fox; MISpeedway.com ; Straight Talk; Ford; Wendy’s
5:44 PM – 5:46 PM
IndyCar on Fox; MLB on Fox; Toyota Gazoo Racing; Expedia; Papa John’s; Liberty Mutual; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Tickets