NASCAR All-Star Race: Logano takes $1m win, Stenhouse and Busch fight

Hours after team owner Roger Penske’s IndyCar drivers swept the front row for this year’s Indianapolis 500 in qualifying, Logano added a $1 million prize with his win in NASCAR’s annual all-star event.

Logano, who has yet to win a points-paying NASCAR Cup race this season, started on pole and led 199 of the 200 laps. Denny Hamlin ended up Logano’s toughest challenger, nearly grabbing the lead on a three-wide move midway in the race, and he also closed the gap in the final laps as Logano edged him by 0.636 seconds.

But the major flashpoint was elsewhere, as the race ended with a fight in the garage between Stenhouse Jr. and Busch.

At the start of the race Busch got loose and up into the outside wall on the opening lap and then also on lap 2, which sent him into Stenhouse and forced the #47 out of the race. A frustrated Stenhouse then parked his wrecked car in Busch’s pit slot.

After the race, Stenhouse – who had to wait until the end of the race as thee is no infield tunnel – confronted Busch, which resulted in a heated confrontation and ended with fists flying, with Stenhouse laying the first hit on Busch.

NASCAR will look into the post-race fracas and any penalties would be announced next week.

Watch: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. swings on Kyle Busch post-race at North Wilkesboro

“I felt Kyle and I never had any issues and I wrecked him one time at Daytona and he kind of bad mouthed me ever since then,” Stenhouse said after the incident.

“I’m not sure why he was so mad – yeah, I shoved it three-wide, but he hit the fence, kind of came off the fence and ran into me. When I was talking to him, he kept saying that I wrecked him. It was definitely built-up frustration with how he runs his mouth all the time about myself.

“I know he’s frustrated because he doesn’t run near as good as he used to.

“I was excited about the rest of the night, and he ruined it.”

Busch, who finished 10th out of the 20 cars, left the track without comment.

Behind winner Logano and runner-up Hamlin, Chris Buescher ended up third, with Kyle Larson – who qualified fifth for the Indy 500 earlier in the day – in fourth as Ryan Blaney rounded out the top five.

NASCAR Cup Series - All-Star Race results

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Cla	Driver	#		Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Interval	Pits	Points	Retirement
1	J. Logano Team Penske	22		Ford	200	1:19'57.335		3
2	D. Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing	11		Toyota	200	+0.636 1:19'57.971	0.636	5
3	C. Buescher RFK Racing	17		Ford	200	+4.893 1:20'02.228	4.257	4
4	K. Larson Hendrick Motorsports	5		Chevrolet	200	+5.312 1:20'02.647	0.419	6
5	R. Blaney Team Penske	12		Ford	200	+5.451 1:20'02.786	0.139	4
6	B. Wallace 23XI Racing	23		Toyota	200	+7.453 1:20'04.788	2.002	6
7	R. Chastain TrackHouse Racing	1		Chevrolet	200	+9.222 1:20'06.557	1.769	6
8	C. Elliott Hendrick Motorsports	9		Chevrolet	200	+10.218 1:20'07.553	0.996	6
9	M. McDowell Front Row Motorsports	34		Ford	200	+10.666 1:20'08.001	0.448	7
10	K. Busch Richard Childress Racing	8		Chevrolet	200	+11.310 1:20'08.645	0.644	6
11	N. Gragson Stewart-Haas Racing	10		Ford	200	+13.369 1:20'10.704	2.059	6
12	M. Truex Jr. Joe Gibbs Racing	19		Toyota	200	+14.236 1:20'11.571	0.867	6
13	T. Gibbs Joe Gibbs Racing	54		Toyota	200	+14.577 1:20'11.912	0.341	6
14	T. Reddick 23XI Racing	45		Toyota	200	+14.719 1:20'12.054	0.142	5
15	D. Suarez TrackHouse Racing	99		Chevrolet	200	+15.448 1:20'12.783	0.729	7
16	B. Keselowski RFK Racing	6		Ford	200	+15.791 1:20'13.126	0.343	4
17	C. Bell Joe Gibbs Racing	20		Toyota	200	+16.648 1:20'13.983	0.857	5
18	A. Allmendinger Kaulig Racing	16		Chevrolet	198	+2 Laps 1:20'00.722	2 Laps	7
19	W. Byron Hendrick Motorsports	24		Chevrolet	186	+14 Laps 1:20'08.837	12 Laps	8
20	R. Stenhouse Jr. JTG Daugherty Racing	47		Chevrolet	2	+198 Laps 1'01.944	184 Laps	3		Accident
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