Commercial breakdown: 2025 Iowa Corn 350 powered by Ethanol
On Sunday, for the Cup race, it was all about the fuel. From the title of the race, the sponsor of the race, and the reason Byron managed to end up in Victory Lane (masterfully managing the fuel he barely had enough of), it was all about the Iowa Corn Ethanol fuel. Accordingly, it is no surprise to any fan of NASCAR that every race is fueled by sponsors. For those fans who would like to know precisely how the sponsor love worked out for this race, here is this week’s breakdown.
Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2025 Iowa Corn 350 powered by Ethanol
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:21 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:57 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 216
Minutes of race broadcast: 181
Minutes of traditional commercials: 35
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 5
Total number of commercials: 103
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 47
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 91
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 45
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 12
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 11
Number of times USA utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 2
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Sonic (7 times); Toyota (6 times); Subway (6 times); Xfinity (6 times); Busch Beer (5 times); Coors Light (5 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
NBC/USA TV Previews/Promos:
‘The Rainmaker’ usanetwork.com/the-rainmaker – 4
NFL Kick-Off on NBC & Peacock – 2
‘Friday Night Smackdown’ on USA usanetwork.com/Friday-night-smackdown – 2
Upcoming Cup race on NBC/NBC Sports Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity NASCAR.com/tickets – 1
NBA on NBC & Peacock – 1
FedEx Playoffs Golf on NBC & Peacock – 1
Olympics on NBC nbcolympics.com – 1
Resident Alien syfy.com/resident-alien – 1
Total: 13
Restaurants/Food
Sonic sonicdrivein.com – 7
Subway Subway.com – 6
Wendy’s wendys.com – 4
Applebees applebees.com – 2
Chili’s chilis.com – 1
Hellman’s hellmanns.com – 1
IHOP ihop.com – 1
Lindt’s lindtusa.com – 1
Premier Protein premierprotein.com – 1
Total: 24
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 4
Coors Light coorslight.com/ – 4
Total: 8
Car/Truck/Bike
Toyota Gazoo Racing toyotagazooracing.com – 4
Safe Lite safelite.com – 3
Iowa Corn Ethanol iowacorn.org – 2
NAPA napaonline.com/ – 2
Buyatoyota.com buyatoyota.com – 1
Chevy chevy.com – 1
Total: 13
Insurance/Health
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 2
Progressive progressive.com – 2
GoGetSomebody.com – 1
NJM Insurance njm.com – 1
Total: 6
Wireless Phone
StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 2
Verizon/Frontline Verizon.com/frontline – 2
Mint Mobile mintmobile.com – 1
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 1
Total: 6
Financial
Credit One Bank creditonebank.com – 2
Total: 2
Legal
Peirce Law Group peircelaw.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 2
Amazon amazon.com – 1
Homes.com – 1
Total: 4
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Ashley Homestore ashleyhomestore.com – 3
Breztri breztri.com – 2
Jardiance.com jardiance.com – 1
PODS pods.com – 1
TJ Maxx tjmaxx.com – 1
Trelegy trelegy.com – 1
Total: 9
Travel
Hotels.com hotels.com – 2
VisitPA.com – 1
Total: 3
Racing Related
KansasSpeedway.com kansasspeedway.com – 1
New Hampshire Motor Speedway nhms.com – 1
Total: 2
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
3:21 PM – 3:23 PM – 2 // 3:23 PM – 3:26 PM – 3
3:26 PM – 3:29 PM – 3 // 3:29 PM – 3:31 PM – 2
3:31 PM – 3:59 PM – 28 // 3:59 PM – 4:01 PM – 2
4:01 PM – 4:08 PM – 7 // 4:08 PM – 4:10 PM – 2
4:10 PM – 4:11 PM – 1 // 4:11 PM – 4:13 PM – 2
4:13 PM – 4:26 PM – 13 // 4:26 PM – 4:28 PM – 2
4:28 PM – 4:34 PM – 6 // 4:34 PM – 4:36 PM – 2
4:36 PM – 4:46 PM – 10 // 4:46 PM – 4:48 PM – 2
4:48 PM – 4:58 PM – 10 // 4:58 PM – 5:00 PM – 2
5:00 PM – 5:07 PM – 7 // 5:07 PM – 5:09 PM – 2
5:09 PM – 5:24 PM – 15 // 5:24 PM – 5:26 PM – 2
5:26 PM – 5:28 PM – 2 // 5:28 PM – 5:30 PM – 2
5:30 PM – 5:38 PM – 8 // 5:38 PM – 5:39 PM – 1
5:39 PM – 5:44 PM – 5 // 5:44 PM – 5:47 PM – 3
5:47 PM – 5:55 PM – 8 // 5:55 PM – 5:57 PM – 2
5:57 PM – 6:05 PM – 8 // 6:05 PM – 6:06 PM – 1
6:06 PM – 6:13 PM – 7 // 6:13 PM – 6:15 PM – 2
6:15 PM – 6:21 PM – 6 // 6:21 PM – 6:22 PM – 1
6:22 PM – 6:57 PM – 35 // 6:57 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 181 // Total comm. brdcst time: 35
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 18
(Iowa Corn iowacorn.org ; AMR Safety Team amr.net ; Hunt Bros Pizza; Cheddar’s; Coca-Cola; Monster Energy Zero Sugar; Busch Beer, @BuschBeer, #BuschAllfor 1 #Sweepstakes ; Toyota; Liberty Mutual; Progressive; Bob’s Discount Furniture; Homes.com; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; College Football; FedEx Golf Playoffs; SMX World Championship supermotocross.com ; NASCAR Powerball Playoff powerball.com/nascar-powerball-playoff ; Upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
3:48 PM – 3:51 PM
Toyota Gazoo Racing; Applebee’s; Xfinity; Ashley Furniture; McDonald’s; NASCARSanDiego.com
6:37 PM – 6:39 PM
Progressive; IHOP; NAPA; Xfinity; Coors Light; PODS