Commercial breakdown: 2026 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray
Welcome to a new season, NASCAR fans. Lots of unexpected things were thrown at the Clash race on Wednesday evening, but despite lousy weather, lots of cautions, a channel change, and a track changing its mind about what tires it needed, a full race was held. There were also commercials; but those are expected. For those fans who would like to know precisely how many there were, and how much time they took during the broadcast, here is this week’s breakdown.
Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2026 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 6:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 9:35 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 215
Minutes of race broadcast: 201
Minutes of traditional commercials: 14
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 14
Total number of commercials: 67
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 31
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 31
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 24
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 36
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 24
Number of times Fox utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 5
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Busch Light (7 times); Xfinity (6 times); NASCAR (5 times); Arby’s (4 times); Ram Trucks(4 times); Valvoline (3 times); Liberty Mutual (3 times); Chevy (3 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
IndyCar on Fox – 2
College Basketball on FS1 foxsports.com/college-basketball – 2
‘Barstool Sports’ on Fox Sports – 1
‘Memory of a Killer’ on Fox – 1
‘Throwbacks’ Apple podcast – 1
‘Faithful Women of the Bible’ on Fox – 1
‘Fear Factor: House of Fear’ on Fox https://www.fox.com/detail/series/SER262489TTWV/fear-factor-house-of-fear – 1
Total: 9
Restaurants/Food
Denny’s dennys.com – 2
Wendy’s wendys.com – 2
Total: 4
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 1
Total: 1
Car/Truck/Bike
Ram Trucks ram.com – 2
Chevy chevy.com – 1
Mawson and Mawson mawsonandmawson.com – 1
Valvoline valvoline.com – 1
Total: 5
Insurance/Health
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 1
StandUptoJewishHate.org – 1
Total: 2
Financial
Ally Bank allybank.com – 1
Total: 1
Legal
Berger and Green bergerandgreen.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Fan Duel fanduel.com – 2
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 2
Total: 4
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Breztri breztri.com – 1
Swifferswiffer.com #SwifferEffect – 1
Walmart.com walmart.com – 1
Total: 3
Racing Related
NASCAR.com/FanRewards – 1
Total: 1
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
6:00 PM – 6:11 PM – 11 // 6:11 PM – 6:13 PM – 2
6:13 PM – 7:05 PM – 52 // 7:05 PM – 7:08 PM – 3
7:08 PM – 7:13 PM – 5 // 7:13 PM – 7:16 PM – 3
7:16 PM – 8:13 PM – 57 // 8:13 PM – 8:16 PM – 3
8:16 PM – 8:29 PM – 13 // 8:29 PM – 8:31 PM – 2
8:31 PM – 8:43 PM – 12 // 8:43 PM – 8:44 PM – 1
8:44 PM – 9:35 PM – 51 // 9:35 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 201 // Total comm. brdcst time: 14
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 16
(Cook Out cookout.com ; Cal Ripken Sr Foundation ripkenfoundation.org ; Wendy’s; Coca-Cola; Busch Light; Toyota ; Valvoline; Freeway Insurance; Progressive; Bob’s Discount Furniture; Xfinity; College Basketball on Fox; ‘Fear Factor: House of Fear’ on Fox; ‘The Masked Singer’ on Fox; ‘Ram: Race for the Seat’ on FS1; ‘We’ve Lost Dale Earnhardt: 26 Years Later’ on FS1; Daytona 500 on Fox)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
6:30 PM – 6:33 PM
Ram Trucks; Busch Light; Ashley Furniture; Arby’s; Liberty Mutual; Valvoline; Ally Bank; AT&T
6:35 PM – 6:38 PM
Chevy; Papa John’s; Swiffer; Xfinity; Bob’s Discount Furniture; Upcoming Cup race, Busch Light, Coca-Cola, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity; Busch Light; Valvoline
6:45 PM – 6:47 PM
Straight Talk; Walmart; Weather Tech; Ram Trucks; Arby’s; Ashley Furniture
7:56 PM – 7:59 PM
Ford Racing; Arby’s; Xfinity; Busch Light; NAPA; Chewy; Liberty Mutual
8:07 PM – 8:10 PM
Ally Bank; Arby’s; Tide; Liberty Mutual; Chevy; Daytona 500 race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity; Upcoming Darlington race; Busch Light