Commercial breakdown: 2025 Grant Park 165
While Shane Van Gisbergen was busy taking the Cup Chicago street race captive on Sunday, Xfinity, Arby’s and Toyota were laying hold of first, second, and third place in the leading number of sponsor spots during the race. For anyone interested in precisely how many other 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 Grant Park 165
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 2:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 5:09 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 189
Minutes of race broadcast: 167
Minutes of traditional commercials: 22
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 26
Total number of commercials: 100
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 56
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 46
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 36
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 54
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 32
Number of times TNT utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 8
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Xfinity (7 times); Arby’s (6 times); Toyota (5 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
TNT/TV
HBO Max – 1
MLB on TBS & Max – 1
Total: 2
Movies
‘The Naked Gun’ nakedgunmovie.com – 1
Total: 1
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix PVGP.org – 1
Total: 1
Restaurants/Food
Burger King burgerking.com – 3
Arby’s arbys.com – 1
McCormick’s Grill Mates mccormick.com/grill-mates – 1
Olive Garden olivegarden.com – 1
Tovala.com – 1
Wendy’s wendys.com – 1
Total: 8
Car/Truck/Bike
Toyota Gazoo Racing toyotagazooracing.com – 2
Drive Time drivetime.com – 1
Buyatoyota.com buyatoyota.com – 1
Total: 4
Insurance/Health
DoIHaveCelicac.org – 1
Good Rx goodrx.com – 1
NJM Insurance – 1
Outcomes4Me.com – 1
Total: 4
Wireless Phone
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 1
Total: 1
Financial
QuickBooks.com quickbooks.com – 2
CreditKarma.com – 1
Ramp ramp.com – 1
Total: 4
Education
SNHU.edu – 1
Total: 1
Legal
Peirce Law Group peircelaw.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
SimpliSafe.com simplisafe.com – 2
Grammarly.com – 1
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 1
Total: 4
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Bimzelx Bimzelx.com – 3
Breztri breztri.com – 3
Grainger grainger.com – 1
Invisalign Invisalign.com – 1
Kohls kohls.com – 1
LALO meetlalo.com – 1
Nutrafol.com – 1
Shady Rays shadyrays.com – 1
Smalls Cat Food smalls.com – 1
Zepbound zepbound.lilly.com – 1
Attruby amvuttra.com – 1
Total: 15
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
2:00 PM – 2:03 PM – 3 // 2:03 PM – 2:07 PM – 4
2:07 PM – 2:12 PM – 5 // 2:12 PM – 2:15 PM – 3
2:15 PM – 2:18 PM – 3 // 2:18 PM – 2:21 PM – 3
2:21 PM – 2:35 PM – 14 // 2:35 PM – 2:37 PM – 2
2:37 PM – 2:42 PM – 5 // 2:42 PM – 2:45 PM – 3
2:45 PM – 3:20 PM – 35 // 3:20 PM – 3:22 PM – 2
3:22 PM – 3:26 PM – 4 // 3:26 PM – 3:28 PM – 2
3:28 PM – 4:10 PM – 42 // 4:10 PM – 4:12 PM – 2
4:12 PM – 4:13 PM – 1 // 4:13 PM – 4:14 PM – 1
4:14 PM – 5:09 PM – 55 // 5:09 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 167 // Total comm. brdcst time: 22
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 25
(TNT, TruTV & Max; AMR Safety Team amr.net ; Arby’s; Burger King; Coca-Cola; Busch Beer; Toyota; NAPA; Progressive; BuildSubmarines.com ; Paypal ; Draft Kings; Chewy; Vanda; Breztri; Advent Health; Blue Cross/Blue Shield; National Debt Relief; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; ‘F1 the Movie’ ; Straight Talk; Upcoming Xfinity race; Upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
2:49 PM – 2:53 PM
Arby’s; Progressive; Harbor Freight; Vanda; Chevy; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity, on TNT & Max, NASCAR.com/Challenge
3:04 PM – 3:07 PM
RichmondRaceway.com ; NASCAR Powerball Playoff powerball.com/nascar-powerball-playoff ; Ram Trucks; WhatsApp ; NAPA; PODS; Arby’s
3:38 PM – 3:41 PM
Arby’s; Straight Talk; Liberty Mutual; Chewy; NAPA; Paypal; Upcoming Xfinity race on CW theCW.com
3:43 PM – 3:46 PM
Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity, on TNT & Max, NASCAR.com/Challenge ; Harbor Freight; Xfinity ; CreditKarma.com ; Toyota Gazoo Racing ; PODS ; Arby’s
3:56 PM – 3:59 PM
Experian; Chevy; Xfinity; Progressive; Harbor Freight; Arby’s ; DarlingtonRaceway.com
4:25 PM – 4:28 PM
Vanda; National Debt Relief; NAPA; Consumer Cellular; ‘F1 the Movie’ ; NASCAR.com/Challenge
4:36 PM – 4:39 PM
Draft Kings; Straight Talk; Paypal; Skechers; Toyota Gazoo Racing; PODS; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity, on TNT & Max, NASCAR.com/Challenge
4:47 PM – 4:50 PM
“Superman’ movie; Straight Talk; Ram Trucks; Experian; Skechers; Liberty Mutual; Arby’s