Commercial breakdown: 2026 Jack Link’s 500

Many a day ago, Doris Day sung a song about a bluebird on your window sill, observing that anything you may wish for may occur with the appearance of this lucky bird. A bluebird wouldn’t have stood a chance of perching on Carson Hocevar’s car during the wild Cup race on Sunday, but apparently one had flown over Talladega and thrown some avian luck his way. Perhaps this is why Carson chose to perch on his window ledge for his victory lap following the race? We may never know any of that, but those watching at home can verify there was a lot of sponsor love in the form of 155 commercials during the race (lucky for the sponsors, and those fans needing to run to the kitchen for a bag of Jack Link’s jerky). 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 2026 Jack Link’s 500

Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:59 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 239
Minutes of race broadcast: 211
Minutes of traditional commercials: 28
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 36

Total number of commercials: 155
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 78
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 63
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 48
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 92
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 45
Number of times Fox utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 14

Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Busch Light (12 times); NASCAR (10 times); Xfinity (8 times); Coca-Cola (6 times); Liberty Mutual (5 times); Wendy’s (5 times); Chipotle (5 times); Ford (5 times); Freeway Insurance (5 times); IndyCar (4 times); Progressive (4 times); Arby’s (4 times)

Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:

Fox/FS1

IndyCar on Fox – 3
FIFA World Cup on Fox – 2
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 2
‘Amazing America’ on Fox – 1
Upcoming Cup race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar ; Coca-Cola, Xfinity, Busch Beer, Freeway Insurance #NASCARSalutes – 1
UFL theUFL.com – 1
Baseball on Fox Sports foxsports.com/mlb – 1
CW Network theCW.com – 1
‘Farmer Wants a Wife’ fox.com/farmer-wants-a-wife – 1
‘Seinfeld’ – 1

Total: 14

Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.

NBC local news wpxi.com on Fox fox.com – 1
A M Wall Anchor and Waterproofing amwallanchorandwaterproofing.com – 1
Mark Arbuckle Nissan markarbucklenissan.com – 1

Total: 3

Restaurants/Food

Chipotle chipotle.com – 3
Wendy’s wendys.com – 3
Dr. Pepper drpepper.com – 1
Golden Corral goldencorral.com/ – 1
Jack Link’s jacklinks.com – 1
Sonic sonicdrivein.com – 1

Total: 10

Beer/Alcohol

Keystone Light keystonelight.com – 1

Total: 1

Car/Truck/Bike

Ram Trucks ram.com – 2
Chevy chevy.com – 1
Mawson and Mawson mawsonandmawson.com – 1
Toyota toyota.com – 1

Total: 5

Insurance/Health

GoGetSomebody.com – 2
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 2
NJM Insurance njm.com – 1
UPMC upmc.com – 1
Allegheny Health Network AHN.org – 1

Total: 7

Wireless Phone

T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 1

Total: 1

Financial

Ally Bank allybank.com – 1
Citizens Bank citizensbank.com – 1
Credit One Bank creditonebank.com – 1
Experian.com experian.com – 1

Total: 4

Education

AllStateCareer.edu allstatecareer.edu – 1

Total: 1

Technology

AT&T – 1
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 1

Total: 2

Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use

Vabysmo vabysmo.com – 2
Vraylar vraylar.com – 2
Free Style Libre 3 freestyle.abbott/us-en/home.html – 2
Camzyos camzyos.com – 1
Eylea HD eyleahd.com – 1
Grainger grainger.com – 1
Trelegy trelegy.com – 1

Total: 10

Political/Special Interest

Camera Bartolotta cameraforsenate.com – 4

Total: 4

Racing Related

NASCAR.com/FanRewards – 1

Total: 1

Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:

3:00 PM – 3:03 PM – 3 // 3:03 PM – 3:06 PM – 3
3:06 PM – 3:11 PM – 5 // 3:11 PM –3:13 PM – 2
3:13 PM – 4:50 PM – 97 // 4:50 PM – 4:53 PM – 3
4:53 PM – 4:56 PM – 3 // 4:56 PM – 4:59 PM – 3
4:59 PM – 5:05 PM – 6 // 5:05 PM – 5:07 PM – 2
5:07 PM – 5:14 PM – 7 // 5:14 PM – 5:17 PM – 3
5:17 PM – 5:24 PM – 7 // 5:24 PM – 5:26 PM – 2
5:26 PM – 5:28 PM – 2 // 5:28 PM – 5:31 PM – 3
5:31 PM – 6:01 PM – 30 // 6:01 PM – 6:04 PM – 3
6:04 PM – 6:30 PM – 26 // 6:30 PM – 6:33 PM – 3
6:33 PM – 6:50 PM – 17 // 6:50 PM – 6:51 PM – 1
6:51 PM – 6:59 PM – 8 // 6:59 PM – checkered flag

Total race brdcst time: 211 // Total comm. brdcst time: 28

Number of companies featured during broadcast: 27
(Jack Link’s jacklinks.com ; Hunt Bros Pizza; Wendy’s; Chipotle; Coca-Cola; Monster Energy; Busch Light; Ford; Toyota; Sunoco; POET; GoodYear; Valvoline; GUNK gunk.com ; Freeway Insurance; Progressive; BuildSubmarines.com; PODS; Vabysmo ; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; FIFA World Cup on Fox; UFL theUFL.com on Fox; MLB on Fox; NHRA; Indy 500 race on Fox; SPEEDonFox YouTube.com ; ‘Kevin Harvick Happy Hour’ podcast ; Upcoming Craftsman Truck Series race; Upcoming O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race; Upcoming Cup race)

Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)

3:33 PM – 3:36 PM
Ford; Busch Light; PNC Bank; Liberty Mutual; PODS; Skechers; Dr Pepper; Chili’s

3:40 PM – 3:43 PM
Progressive; Arby’s; Keystone Light; Universal Orlando Resort; Ram Trucks; Chipotle; Upcoming Cup race on Prime, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity

3:47 PM – 3:49 PM
Ally Bank; Papa Johns; T-Mobile; Toyota; Busch Light Red Apple; GoodYear; NASCAR.com/Tickets

4:08 PM – 4:11 PM
Ally Bank; Calquence calquence.com ; Ford; Bass Pro Shops; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Salutes

4:14 PM – 4:17 PM
Ford; Busch Light; Arby’s; PODS; Straight Talk; Progressive; All-Star race at Dover Motor Speedway dovermotorspeedway.com

4:19 PM – 4:22 PM
Chili’s; Toyota; Chewy.com; GoodYear; StarLink ; Ally Bank; NAPA

4:29 PM – 4:32PM
Liberty Mutual; Arby’s; Valvoline; Chevy; Universal Orlando Resort; Xfinity; Busch Light

4:35 PM – 4:37 PM
PODS; Denny’s; Skechers; Craftsman; T-Mobile; WT.com ; Wendy’s

4:40 PM – 4:41 PM
Progressive; Rock Star Energy drink

4:43 PM – 4:46 PM
Breztri; Verizon Business; Denny’s; ValvolineWorldCup.com ; Dr Pepper; PNC Bank

5:41 PM – 5:44 PM
Universal Orlando Resort; Chili’s; Dodge; Busch Light; PODS; Ally Bank; Upcoming Cup race on Prime, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity; FIFA World Cup

5:47 PM – 5:48 PM
Ford; Indy 500 Race on Fox; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Salutes ; ‘Bear Grylls is Running Wild’ on Fox; Papa Johns

6:07 PM – 6:10 PM
T-Mobile; Chipotle; Keystone Light; Liberty Mutual; Kubota; Ford; Arby’s; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity, NASCAR.com/Salutes

6:26 PM – 6:29 PM
Wendy’s; Chevy; Progressive; GoodYear; Upcoming Craftsman Truck Series race NASCAR.com/Trucks ; UFL on Fox; Busch Light Red Apple; PODS