Commercial breakdown: 2026 Food City 500
The mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, Glenn Jacobs, gave the call to start the engines at Bristol Motor Speedway for Sunday’s Cup race. Before becoming a mayor, many people know that he used to be a professional wrestler known as ‘Kane’. One of Kane’s favorite moves was the Chokeslam. Fittingly, this move could also describe some of the racing action on the track, part of the reason Bristol is one of NASCAR fans favorite destinations. For the fans that watched from home, they got to see all of the racing moves of the exciting race, as well as the commercials that brought the broadcast to their living rooms. For those fans 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 2026 Food City 500
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 2:55 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:14 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 199
Minutes of race broadcast: 179
Minutes of traditional commercials: 20
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 21
Total number of commercials: 113
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 58
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 49
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 33
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 64
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 40
Number of times FS1 utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 12
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: NASCAR (9 times); Busch Light (7 times); Xfinity (7 times); Wendy’s (5 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
IndyCar on Fox – 2
Baseball on Fox Sports foxsports.com/mlb – 2
‘The 1% Club’ and ‘The Quiz with Balls’ on Fox – 1
LIV Golf livgolf.com on Fox – 1
Upcoming Craftsman Truck race on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar – 1
UFL theUFL.com – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1
Total: 9
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
Bet365.com – 1
Pella Window PellaPittsburgh.com – 1
RiverviewChevyBuickGMC.com – 1
Total: 3
Restaurants/Food
Olive Garden olivegarden.com – 3
Ritz ritcracker.net – 3
Arby’s arbys.com – 1
Sonic sonicdrivein.com – 1
Taco Bell tacobell.com – 1
Tropical Smoothie Café tropicalsmoothiecafe.com – 1
Total: 10
Beer/Alcohol
Busch Light busch.com – 2
Total: 2
Car/Truck/Bike
Pennzoil Pennzoil.com – 1
Toyota toyota.com – 1
Total: 2
Insurance/Health
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 2
NJM Insurance njm.com – 1
Total: 3
Wireless Phone
StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 2
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 2
Total: 4
Home Improvement
ACE Hardware ACEHardware.com – 1
Total: 1
Legal
Peirce Law Group peircelaw.com – 1
Total: 1
Technology
Xfinity.com xfinity.com – 1
Total: 1
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Free Style Libre 3 freestyle.abbott/us-en/home.html – 3
Sensodyne Toothpaste sensodyne.com – 2
Tremfya.com – 2
SportClips.com sportclips.com – 1
Trelegy trelegy.com – 1
Vabysmo vabysmo.com – 1
Total: 10
Racing Related
NASCAR.com/FanRewards – 1
NASCAR.com/tickets nascar.com/tickets – 1
NHRA nhra.com – 1
Total: 3
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
2:55 PM – 2:58 PM – 3 // 2:58 PM – 2:59 PM – 1
2:59 PM – 3:04 PM – 5 // 3:04 PM – 3:06 PM – 2
3:06 PM – 3:52 PM – 46 // 3:52 PM – 3:55 PM – 3
3:55 PM – 3:57 PM – 2 // 3:57 PM – 4:00 PM – 3
4:00 PM – 4:04 PM – 4 // 4:04 PM – 4:07 PM – 3
4:07 PM – 4:13 PM – 6 // 4:13 PM – 4:16 PM – 3
4:16 PM – 4:41 PM – 25 // 4:41 PM – 4:44 PM – 3
4:44 PM – 4:46 PM – 2 // 4:46 PM – 4:48 PM – 2
4:48 PM – 6:14 PM – 86 // 6:14 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 179 // Total comm. brdcst time: 20
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 22
(Food City foodcity.com ; Wendy’s; Papa Johns; Coca-Cola; Monster Energy; Busch Light, @BuschBeer #BuschAllfor1 #Sweepstakes ; Ford; Toyota; Sunoco; GoodYear; Valvoline; Freeway Insurance; Echo Park Automotive; Advent Health; Credit One Bank; Xfinity; UFL theUFL.com on Fox; MLB on Fox; NHRA; IndyCar on Fox; SPEEDonFox YouTube.com ; ‘Kevin Harvick Happy Hour’ ; Upcoming ARCA race; Upcoming O’Reilly Auto Parts race; Upcoming Cup race)
Commercials during race broadcast: ‘Side-by-Side’ (‘Thank you!’ to all of the sponors!)
3:20 PM – 3:22 PM
IndyCar; GoodYear; National Debt Relief; ACE Hardware; Sonic; Keystone Light; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity
3:29 PM – 3:30 PM
Ram Trucks; Trimble
3:32 PM – 3:34 PM
Taco Bell; Ford; Ally Bank; Busch Light; Kubota; Downy; Dr Pepper; Wendy’s
3:43 PM – 3:45 PM
Xfinity; PNC Bank; Wendy’s; NASCAR.com/Tickets; WT.com
4:24 PM – 4:26 PM
Arby’s; Chevy; Progressive; T-Mobile; Keystone Light; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity ; Busch Light; Wendy’s
4:32 PM – 4:34 PM
TexasMotorSpeedway.com ; Ford; Buffalo Wild Wings; PNC Bank; Busch Light; PODS; Papa Johns; TalladegaSuperSpeedway.com
5:03 PM – 5:04 PM
Ford; Trimble; Allstate
5:07 PM – 5:09 PM
Chevy; Arby’s; PODS; T-Mobile; Progressive; Valvoline; Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity
5:17 PM – 5:19 PM
Upcoming Cup race, Coca-Cola, Busch Light, Freeway Insurance, Xfinity ; Craftsman; GoodYear; Liberty Mutual; Keystone Light; Papa Johns; Toyota
5:27 PM – 5:29 PM
Ram Trucks; ACE Hardware; Buffalo Wild Wings
5:30 PM – 5:32 PM
Wendy’s; Kubota; NASCAR All Star race at Dover Motor Speedway
5:41 PM – 5:42 PM
Swiffer; Wendy’s; Liberty Mutual