Commercial breakdown: 2025 Bass Pro Shops Night Race

A lot of tires were torn up on the track and a lot of fires were put out on pit road for the Cup Bristol night race on Saturday. The viewers at home needed those customary commercial breaks to catch their breath from all the exciting action. For those 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 Bass Pro Shops Night Race

Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:15 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 11:25 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 250
Minutes of race broadcast: 218
Minutes of traditional commercials: 32
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 9

Total number of commercials: 108
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 49
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 85
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 45
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 23
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 19
Number of times USA utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 4

Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Xfinity (7 times); McDonald’s (6 times); Subway (6 times); Peacock (5 times); Wendy’s (5 times); Coors Light (5 times); Safelite (5 times); Toyota (5 times)

Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:

NBC/USA TV Previews/Promos:

Peacock peacocktv.com – 3
‘The Rainmaker’ usanetwork.com/the-rainmaker – 3
Upcoming Cup race on USA – 1
Upcoming Cup race on NBC/NBC Sports Coca-Cola, Busch Beer, Xfinity NASCAR.com/tickets – 1
NFL nfl.com on NBC & Peacock – 1
Golf on NBC Sports, USA, & Peacock – 1
Olympics on NBC & Peacock nbcolympics.com – 1
‘Friday Night Smackdown’ on USA usanetwork.com/Friday-night-smackdown – 1

Total: 12

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

Bet365.com – 1
TriStarChevroletBlairsville.com – 1

Total: 2

Restaurants/Food

Subway Subway.com – 5
McDonald’s mcdonalds.com – 4
Wendy’s wendys.com – 3
IHOP ihop.com – 2
Sonic sonicdrivein.com – 2
Applebees applebees.com – 2
Chipotle chipotle.com – 1
Coke Zero Sugar us.coca-cola.com/zero-sugar – 1
Dot’s Pretzels hersheyland.com/dots-pretzels – 1
Frank’s Red Hot Sauce franksredhot.com – 1

Total: 22

Beer/Alcohol

Coors Light coorslight.com/ – 4
Busch Light busch.com – 3

Total: 7

Car/Truck/Bike

Safe Lite safelite.com – 4
Toyota Gazoo Racing toyotagazooracing.com – 4
Chevy chevy.com – 1
NAPA napaonline.com/ – 1
Weather Tech WT.com – 1

Total: 11

Insurance/Health

Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 2
Progressive progressive.com – 2
GoGetSomebody.com – 1

Total: 5

Wireless Phone

StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 3
Mint Mobile mintmobile.com – 1
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 1

Total: 5

Financial

Ally Bank allybank.com – 1
Capital One capitalone.com – 1

Total: 2

Legal

Peirce Law Group peircelaw.com – 2

Total: 2

Technology

Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 3
Homes.com – 1

Total: 4

Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use

Breztri breztri.com – 3
Free Style Libre 3 freestyle.abbott/us-en/home.html – 2
Tempur-Pedic tempurpedic.com – 2
Gorilla Tape and Glue gorillatough.com – 1
Skyrizi skyrizi.com – 1
Trelegy trelegy.com – 1

Total: 10

Travel

Hotels.com hotels.com – 1

Total: 1

Racing Related

Las Vegas Motor Speedway lvms.com – 1
Martinsville Speedway martinsvillespeedway.com – 1

Total: 2

Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:

7:15 PM – 7:19 PM – 4 // 7:19 PM – 7:21 PM – 2
7:21 PM – 7:27 PM – 6 // 7:27 PM – 7:29 PM – 2
7:29 PM – 8:02 PM – 33 // 8:02 PM – 8:04 PM – 2
8:04 PM – 8:07 PM – 3 // 8:07 PM – 8:09 PM – 2
8:09 PM – 8:17 PM – 8 // 8:17 PM – 8:19 PM – 2
8:19 PM – 8:26 PM – 7 // 8:26 PM – 8:28 PM – 2
8:28 PM – 8:30 PM – 2 // 8:30 PM – 8:31 PM – 1
8:31 PM – 8:43 PM – 12 // 8:43 PM – 8:45 PM – 2
8:45 PM – 9:13 PM – 28 // 9:13 PM – 9:15 PM – 2
9:15 PM – 9:19 PM – 4 // 9:19 PM – 9:21 PM – 2
9:21 PM – 9:27 PM – 6 // 9:27 PM – 9:29 PM – 2
9:29 PM – 9:36 PM – 7 // 9:36 PM – 9:38 PM – 2
9:38 PM – 9:44 PM – 6 // 9:44 PM – 9:45 PM – 1
9:45 PM – 9:51 PM – 6 // 9:51 PM – 9:54 PM – 3
9:54 PM – 10:24 PM – 30 // 10:24 PM – 10:27 PM – 3
10:27 PM – 10:48 PM – 21 // 10:48 PM – 10:50 PM – 2
10:50 PM – 11:25 PM – 35 // 11:25 PM – checkered flag

Total race brdcst time: 218 // Total comm. brdcst time: 32

Number of companies featured during broadcast: 20
(Bass Pro Shops; Echo Park Automotive; King’s Hawaiian; Wendy’s; Coca-Cola; Monster Energy, Orange Dreamsicle & Electric Blue flavors; Busch Beer; Ford, NASCAR.com/FordPlayoffsPromo ; Toyota, Toyota Gazoo Racing; Valvoline; Liberty Mutual; HendrickCars.com ; MAYTAG; Homes.com ; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; Ryder Cup Golf on NBC, USA & Peacock; Sunday Night NFL Football on NBC & Peacock; SMX Playoffs; NASCAR Powerball Playoff powerball.com/nascar-powerball-playoff ; Upcoming Craftsman Truck Series race; Upcoming Cup race)

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

7:44 PM – 7:46 PM
Xfinity, McDonald’s; Toyota Gazoo Racing; Ashley Furniture; ‘Friday Night Smackdown’ on USA

7:56 PM – 7:58 PM
Wendy’s; Busch Light Beer; Straight Talk; Progressive; Peacock

8:53 PM – 8:56 PM
Safelite; McDonald’s; Homes.com ; Coors Light; Ashley Furniture; Subway; TalladegaSuperSpeedway.com

9:04 PM – 9:06 PM
Xfinity; Wendy’s; NAPA; PODS; ‘SVU’ marathon on USA; Ryder Cup on NBC, USA & Peacock