Commercial breakdown: 2025 The Duel at Daytona
On Thursday night, the last step to finalize the Daytona 500 line up occurred with the Cup Duel Races. Joy and elation took place, as well as crushing heart ache, and numerous other emotions all along the spectrum. There were a passel of those pesky commercials, too. For those who 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 2025 The Duel at Daytona
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:01 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 10:07 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 186
Minutes of race broadcast: 147
Minutes of traditional commercials: 39
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 0
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 104
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 53
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 0
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 0
Number of times FS1 utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 0
Companies seen the most in commercials during this broadcast: Bathfitters (4 times); Sargento Cheese (4 times); ebay motors (4 times); Ford (4 times); Toyota Gazoo Racing (4 times); Halls Cough Drops (4 times)
Breakdown of what the commercials were, by category:
Fox/FS1
IndyCar indycar.com on Fox – 3
College Basketball on FS1 foxsports.com/college-basketball – 2
‘Animal Control’ on Fox fox.com/animal-control – 2
‘DOC’ fox.com/doc/ – 2
Upcoming Daytona 500 on Fox/FS1 foxsports.com/nascar ; Coca-Cola, Geico, Xfinity, Busch Beer – 2
Daytona 500 on Fox foxsports.com/nascar/daytona-500 #DaytonaDay – 2
LIV Golf livgolf.com on Fox – 1
Upcoming Craftsman Truck race on Fox/FS1 ASfoxsports.com/nascar – 1
‘Extracted’ fox.com/extracted/ – 1
Fox Nation nation.fox.com – 1
‘Going Dutch’ fox.com/going-dutch/ – 1
Total: 18
Local News/Sports/Points-of-Interest in Penna.
BathFitters.com bathfitters.com – 4
Arnold Furniture arnoldfurnitureinc.com – 1
PNC.com pnc.com – 1
TriStarFord.com – 1
Total: 7
Restaurants/Food
Sargento cheese sargento.com – 4
Wendy’s wendys.com – 3
Subway Subway.com – 1
Coke Zero Sugar us.coca-cola.com/zero-sugar – 1
Coffee Mate goodnes.com/coffeemate/- 1
McDonald’s mcdonalds.com – 1
Pizza Hut pizzahut.com/ – 1
Popeyes popeyes.com – 1
Red Bull redbull.com – 1
Total: 14
Car/Truck/Bike
ebay motors ebay.com – 4
Ford ford.com – 4
ToyotaGazooRacong.com – 4
Chevy chevy.com – 3
Safe Lite safelite.com – 2
Ram Trucks ram.com – 2
Total: 19
Insurance/Health
Liberty Mutual libertymutual.com – 2
Total: 2
Wireless Phone
StraightTalk.com straighttalk.com – 2
T-Mobile t-mobile.com/ – 2
Xfinity Mobile xfinitymobile.com – 1
Total: 5
Home Improvement
KubotaUSA.com kubotausa.com – 2
Total: 2
Financial
Bank of America bankofamerica.com/ – 3
Fetch fetch.com – 2
QuickBooks.com quickbooks.com – 1
Turbo Tax turbotax.com – 1
Total: 7
Technology
Paypal paypal.com – 3
Samsung samsung.com/ – 2
Total: 5
Products/Services for the Home and Personal Use
Halls gethalls.com – 4
Jared jared.com – 3
Breztri breztri.com – 3
PODS pods.com – 2
Vraylar vraylar.com – 2
Zales.com zales.com – 2
Blue Chew try.bluechew.com – 1
Dayquil vicks.com – 1
Grainger grainger.com – 1
Kay Jewelers kay.com – 1
Total: 20
Racing Related
NASCAR.com/FanRewards – 1
NASCAR at COTA nascaratcota.com – 1
NASCAR.com/Regional – 1
Homestead-Miami Speedway homesteadmiamispeedway.com – 1
Phoenix Raceway phoenixraceway.com – 1
Total: 5
Race brdcast times: // Comm. brdcast times:
7:01 PM – 7:04 PM – 3 // 7:04 PM – 7:07 PM – 3
7:07 PM – 7:16 PM – 9 // 7:16 PM – 7:19 PM – 3
7:19 PM – 7:32 PM – 13 // 7:32 PM – 7:35 PM – 3
7:35 PM – 7:36 PM – 1 // 7:36 PM – 7:38 PM – 2
7:38 PM – 7:49 PM – 11 // 7:49 PM – 7:51 PM – 2
7:51 PM – 7:52 PM – 1 // 7:52 PM – 7:55 PM – 3
7:55 PM – 8:04 PM – 9 // 8:04 PM – 8:06 PM – 2
8:06 PM – 8:20 PM – 14 // 8:20 PM – 8:23 PM – 3
8:23 PM – 8:45 PM – 22 // 8:45 PM – 8:48 PM – 3
8:48 PM – 8:52 PM – 4 // 8:52 PM – 8:54 PM – 2
8:54 PM – 8:56 PM – 2 // 8:56 PM – 8:58 PM – 2
8:58 PM – 9:01 PM – 3 // 9:01 PM – 9:03 PM – 2
9:03 PM – 9:19 PM – 16 // 9:19 PM – 9:22 PM – 3
9:22 PM – 9:28 PM – 6 // 9:28 PM – 9:30 PM – 2
9:30 PM – 9:37 PM – 7 // 9:37 PM – 9:39 PM – 2
9:39 PM – 9:53 PM – 14 // 9:53 PM – 9:55 PM – 2
9:55 PM – 10:07 PM – 12 // 10:07 PM – checkered flag
Total race brdcst time: 147 // Total comm. brdcst time: 39
Number of companies featured during broadcast: 20
(Advent Health; Axalta; Wendy’s ; Hunt Bros Pizza; Coca-Cola; Celsius; Busch Light Beer; Rebel Bourbon; Chevy; Ford; Toyota; GoodYear; Valvoline; Geico; Progressive; BuildSubmarines.com ; PODS; Xfinity; College Basketball on Fox; Daytona 500 on Fox)