The All-Star field is open to 2022 and 2023 points race winners, past All-Star Race winners, past NASCAR Cup champions, top two finishers from the All-Star Open and the NASCAR fan vote winner.

1.5 miles Racing Surface

William Byron won the opening race in the Round of 12 after a dramatic 400 miles of racing at Texas Motor Speedway.

The track also hosts two NASCAR Xfinity Series races, the Alsco Uniforms 250 and the Andy's Frozen Custard 335, the IndyCar Series' Genesys 600, and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series' SpeedyCash.com 220.

In time, the all-star field was open to the 19 most recent winners (regardless of when they had won), plus the winner from the consolation race, and a fan favorite. At times, NASCAR and the event sponsors added a second consolation race to advance even more drivers into the main event.

All-Star Open (5:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio-Channel 90): 100 laps with a competition break around lap 40. Teams will start on sticker tires and have one additional set in the pits. All laps will count. The top two finishers and the Fan Vote winner transfer to the main event.

Not to be outdone, the field for the 1952 500 turned in the longest race run in the sport's history, 6 hours and 42 minutes. Fonty Flock won and promptly retired from the sport because of exhaustion.

How many laps is the Coca-Cola 600? NASCAR's longest race is 400 laps around the 1.5-mile track for a total of 600 miles.

Kyle Larson NASCAR All-Star Race results: Kyle Larson cruises to win at North Wilkesboro, earns $1 million prize.

They got it much closer there (racing) in the lead.” Kyle Busch finished third, Keselowski was fourth and Ross Chastain rallied from an early pit road speeding penalty to finish fifth. Stage 1 saw Larson pass Bell with eight of 80 laps remaining, and held him off by 0.525 seconds to claim the Stage 1 win.

To see a record-breaking audience at Racetrack of the Americas for the United States Grand Prix, go no farther than Austin, Texas. While it's possible that those attendance figures imply that NASCAR is losing ground, it's important to take a step back and look at the bigger picture.

Texas Motor Speedway is a high-banked superspeedway built by Bruton Smith's Speedway Motorsports, Inc. to serve the Dallas-Fort Worth market in Texas. It has garnered a reputation as one of the fastest circuits in the country and hosts two NASCAR races and a popular round of the IndyCar Series.