Commercial breakdown: 2026 Cook Out 400
Prior to the Cup race on Sunday, it was announced that up-to-that-point Hendrick Motorsports had led over an impressive 10,000 laps at historic Martinsville Speedway. Chase Elliott tacked on another 84, including the most important one: the last one, to take the win. Other numbers to ponder about the race are that there were exactly 100 commercials shown, 50 traditional and 50 side-by-side. For those fans who like to know more of the sponsor statistics, here is this week’s breakdown.
Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2026 Cook Out 400
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:24 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:29 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 185
Minutes of race broadcast: 166
Minutes of traditional commercials: 19
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 20
Total number of commercials: 100
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 56
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 50
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 34
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 50
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 29
Number of times FS1 utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 9
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: NASCAR (9 times); Xfinity (9 times); Busch Light (8 times); Ford (5 times); Arby’s (4 times); Wendy’s (4 times); Chevy (4 times); Freeway Insurance (4 times); Coca-Cola (4 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
IndyCar on Fox – 2
Upcoming Craftsman Truck race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar – 1
UFL theUFL.com – 1
‘The Faithful Women of the Bible’ on Fox – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1
tubi tubitv.com – 1
Total: 7
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
DelaneyAuto.com – 3
PA Lottery palottery.state.pa.us/ – 1
Pella Window PellaPittsburgh.com – 1
RiverviewChevyBuickGMC.com – 1
Total: 6
Restaurants/Food
Dave & Busters daveandbusters.com – 2
Arby’s arbys.com – 1
Wendy’s wendys.com – 1
Total: 4
Car/Truck/Bike
Ford ford.com – 3
Chevy chevy.com – 1
Ram Trucks ram.com – 1
Jeep jeep.com – 1
Toyota toyota.com – 1
Valvoline valvoline.com – 1
Total: 8
Insurance/Health
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 2
GoGetSomebody.com – 1
Total: 3
Wireless Phone
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 2
StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 1
Verizon/Frontline Verizon.com/frontline – 1
Total: 4
Legal
Peirce Law Group peircelaw.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 2
Fan Duel fanduel.com – 1
Total: 3
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Free Style Libre 3 freestyle.abbott/us-en/home.html – 2
Gillette gillette.com – 2
Sensodyne Toothpaste sensodyne.com – 2
Advil advil.com – 1
Downy Unstoppables downy.com – 1
Febreze febreze.com/en-us – 1
Trelegy trelegy.com – 1
Vabysmo vabysmo.com – 1
Original Mattress Factory originalmattress.com – 1
Total: 12
Racing Related
NASCAR.com/FanRewards – 1
NASCAR.com/tickets nascar.com/tickets – 1
Total: 2
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
3:24 PM – 3:26 PM – 2 // 3:26 PM – 3:28 PM – 2
3:28 PM – 3:32 PM – 4 // 3:32 PM – 3:35 PM – 3
3:35 PM – 4:10 PM – 35 // 4:10 PM – 4:13 PM – 3
4:13 PM – 4:17 PM – 4 // 4:17 PM – 4:20 PM – 3
4:20 PM – 4:57 PM – 37 // 4:57 PM – 4:59 PM – 2
4:59 PM – 5:02 PM – 3 // 5:02 PM – 5:04 PM – 2
5:04 PM – 5:54 PM – 50 // 5:54 PM – 5:56 PM – 2
5:56 PM – 6:01 PM – 5 // 6:01 PM – 6:03 PM – 2
6:03 PM – 6:29 PM – 26 // 6:29 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 166 // Total comm. brdcst time: 19
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 23
(Cook Out cookout.com ; Wendy’s; Chili’s; Papa Johns; Coca-Cola; Busch Light; Ford; Toyota; Sunoco; POET; GoodYear; Freeway Insurance; BuildSubmarines.com ; Bob’s Discount Furniture; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; AT&T; UFL theUFL.com on Fox; MLB on Fox; IndyCar on Fox; ‘SPEEDonFox’ YouTube.com ; ‘Kevin Harvick Happy Hour’ podcast; Upcoming O’Reilly Auto Parts race; Upcoming Craftsman Truck Series race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the participating sponsors!)
3:48 PM – 3:51 PM
Breztri; Ford; Craftsman; Papa Johns; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance , Xfinity
3:58 PM – 4:01 PM
Cologuard Plus; Universal Orlando Resort; Toyota; Sonic; Busch Light; NASCAR.com/Tickets
4:29 PM – 4:31 PM
Ram Trucks; Arby’s; T-Mobile; Chili’s; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance , Xfinity ; MLB on Fox
4:38 PM – 4:40 PM
WT.com ; Xfinity; Chevy; Wendy’s; Progressive; ebay
4:47 PM – 4:49 PM
BristolMotorSpeedway.com ; Chili’s; Universal Orlando Resort; Arby’s; Busch Light; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance , Xfinity
5:19 PM – 5:21 PM
Ford; AT&T; Trimble; Busch Light; Arby’s; O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
5:26 PM – 5:28 PM
TexasMotorSpeedway.com ; Ram Trucks; Wendy’s; Ally Bank; Chili’s
5:34 PM – 5:36 PM
PODS; Breztri; Chevy; Universal Orlando Resort; Arby’s
6:10 PM – 6:12 PM
Chevy; GoodYear; Wendy’s; Busch Light; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance , Xfinity