Ever been watching a NASCAR race and thought, "I wonder how many ads I've seen today." (Followed by a voice in your head saying, "This question brought to you by Castrol.") Well, thank heaven for Caws & Jaws, which has done what none of us dared -- watched races with a laser focus on the commercials. Check out some select stats from Saturday's Budweiser Shootout:

Total number of commercials: 65
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 37 
Total minutes of telecast: 107
Minutes of race broadcast: 80
Minutes of commercials: 27 

Twenty-seven minutes? Man, that's a lot of commercials. And for those of you interested in seeing which drivers receive the most attention, check out C&J's analysis of driver camera time at select 2007 races. The "focus points" noted below are individual instances in which cameras caught sight of the drivers for enough time to register with viewers.

Car No. / Driver / Focus Total
(24) Jeff Gordon – 928
(48) Jimmie Johnson – 906
(8) Dale Earnhardt Jr. – 763
(20) Tony Stewart – 604
(17) Matt Kenseth – 579
(2) Kurt Busch– 567
(5) Kyle Busch– 566
(11) Denny Hamlin – 507
(1) Martin Truex Jr. – 500
(99) Carl Edwards – 461

Take another look at the top three names on that chart, and let those Hendrick Motorsports conspiracy theories begin!