Commercial breakdown: 2026 Straight Talk Wireless 500

If an award had been given for ‘Dogged Resolve’ during Sunday’s Cup race, the sure bet for the winner would have been for the victor, Ryan Blaney. Multiple obstacles were overcome to get to Victory Lane for this racing warrior. For the fans watching the race from home, the commercials sprinkled through the races are the ‘obstacles’ to overcome to be able to see the finished product. For those folks who like to know precisely how many ads there were this week, and how much time they took during the broadcast, here is the breakdown.

Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2026 Straight Talk Wireless 500

Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:36 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 7:14 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 218
Minutes of race broadcast: 200
Minutes of traditional commercials: 18
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 31

Total number of commercials: 108
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 54
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 35
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 28
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 73
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 36
Number of times FS1 utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 12

Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: NASCAR (10 times); Xfinity (8 times); Busch Light (6 times); Toyota (5 times); Wendy’s (4 times); Arby’s (4 times)

Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:

Fox/FS1

‘Faithful Women of the Bible’ on Fox – 1
Upcoming Cup race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar ; Coca-Cola, Xfinity, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance – 1
UFL theUFL.com – 1
IndyCar on Fox – 1
College Basketball on FS1 foxsports.com/college-basketball – 1
Big East Tournament on Fox foxsports.com/college-basketball – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1

Total: 7

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

Get Go getgocafe.com – 2

Total: 2

Restaurants/Food

Burger King burgerking.com – 2
Oscar Mayer oscarmayer.com – 2
Wendy’s wendys.com – 2
Philadelphia Cream Cheese myfoodandfamily.com/brands/Philadelphia – 1

Total: 7

Car/Truck/Bike

Toyota toyota.com – 1

Total: 1

Insurance/Health

WorkingWithCancerPledge.com – 1

Total: 1

Financial

Credit One Bank creditonebank.com – 1

Total: 1

Legal

Morgan & Morgan ForthePeople.com – 1
Peirce Law Group peircelaw.com – 1

Total: 2

Technology

Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 3
Fan Duel fanduel.com – 2
Trimble trimble.com – 1

Total: 6

Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use

Tremfya.com – 2
Bob’s Discount Furniture mybobs.com – 1
Camzyos camzyos.com – 1
CologuardTest.com cologuardtest.com – 1
Free Style Libre 3 freestyle.abbott/us-en/home.html – 1
Trelegy trelegy.com – 1

Total: 7

Racing Related

NASCAR Fantasy Live fantasygames.nascar.com/fantasy – 1

Total: 1

Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:

3:36 PM – 4:12 PM – 36 // 4:12 PM – 4:15 PM – 3
4:15 PM – 4:17 PM – 2 // 4:17 PM – 4:20 PM – 3
4:20 PM – 4:38 PM – 18 // 4:38 PM – 4:41 PM – 3
4:41 PM – 4:44 PM – 3 // 4:44 PM – 4:48 PM – 4
4:48 PM – 5:38 PM – 50 // 5:38 PM – 5:41 PM – 3
5:41 PM – 5:45 PM – 4 // 5:45 PM – 5:47 PM – 2
5:47 PM – 7:14 PM – 87 // 7:14 PM – checkered flag

Total race brdcst time: 200 // Total comm. brdcst time: 18

Number of companies featured during broadcast: 27
(Straight Talk straighttalk.com ; Vet the Vote vetthe.vote ; AMR Safety Team amr.net ; Hunt Bros Pizza; Wendy’s; Sonic; Papa Johns; Coca-Cola; Busch Light; Ford; Toyota; Sunoco; GoodYear; Valvoline; Freeway Insurance; Progressive; Bob’s Discount Furniture; PODS; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; AT&T; Big East Basketball Tournament on Fox Sports; World Baseball Classic on Fox; NHRA; Upcoming IndyCar race; ‘Kevin Harvick Happy Hour’ podcast; SPEEDonFox YouTube.com ; Upcoming O’Reilly Auto Parts race; ‘NASCAR Race Day’ on Fox; Upcoming Cup race)

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

3:48 PM – 3:51 PM
Ford; Progressive; Universal Orlando Resort; PNC Bank; Arby’s; Breztri; Golden Corral

3:57 PM – 4:00 PM
Straight Talk; Toyota; PODS; Wendy’s; Valvoline, valvolineworldcup.com ; LiveNation.com ; NASCAR.com/FanRewards ; Toyota

4:05 PM – 4:07 PM
Ram Trucks; GoodYear; StandUptoJewishHate.org ; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity

4:28 PM – 4:30 PM
Ford; Xfinity; Dr Pepper; PNC Bank; Arby’s; NASCAR.com/Tickets

4:56 PM – 4:58 PM
Breztri; Chevy; Universal Orlando Resort; T-Mobile; LiveNation.com ; Wendy’s; Chevy

5:04 PM – 5:07 PM
Ram Trucks; ebay; Ally Bank; PODS; BristolMotorSpeedway.com ; World Baseball Classics

5:14 PM – 5:17 PM
Ford; Progressive; PNC Bank; Arby’s; Straight Talk; Busch Light; Craftsman Truck Series NASCAR.com/Trucks

5:24 PM – 5:27 PM
Toyota; Golden Corral; Febreze; Busch Light; Valvoline; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity

5:55 PM – 5:58 PM
Craftsman Tools; Chevy; T-Mobile; Universal Orlando Resort; PNC Bank; Papa Johns

6:00 PM – 6:02 PM
Toyota; Straight Talk; Sonic; WT.com ; Busch Light; NASCAR.com/Tickets

6:21 PM – 6:24 PM
Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity; Ford; DraftKings.com ; Arby’s; IndyCar on Fox; Craftsman Truck Series NASCAR.com/Trucks

6:27 PM – 6:29 PM
Ram Trucks; AT&T; Bass Pro Shops; Papa Johns; Progressive